On Thanksgiving Day a few years ago, I was a desperate mom in a desperate situation. I hadn’t planned a gluten-free bread option for my son Kell ahead of time, and I was scrambling to come up with something in time for dinner. There was no time to make a full loaf using my homemade gluten-free bread recipe (it’s the best!)…I needed something quick! That’s when I discovered “Gluten Free Bread In A Cup,” which ended up saving the day, AND becoming one of our go-to bread options. Not only is it fast, but it’s good too!
The only problem with the bread-in-a-cup was that it wasn’t really a traditional sliced bread shape, which was somewhat limiting. But shortly after that, a good friend shared an idea with me that turned out to be a brilliant solution to this problem!
Instead of baking the bread in a cup, my friend Sharon decided to try cooking it in one of those sandwich-shaped storage containers that you can find at the grocery store (or online, of course.) These containers are the perfect shape to cook up enough gluten-free bread for one sandwich! Genius, right?? Here’s how you can make delicious gluten-free bread for one right in your microwave. :-)
Gluten Free Bread For One
Ingredients:
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp water
- 3 Tbsp buttermilk
- 1/3 cup GF flour blend
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sugar
Directions:
In a small bowl, combine the egg, water, and buttermilk and mix well.
Then add the flour blend, baking powder, and sugar to the wet ingredients and stir until well combined.
Pour the mixture into an uncovered sandwich container.
Put the container in your microwave and cook for 85 seconds. (Could take slightly more or less time, depending on your microwave, so keep an eye on it.)
When the timer goes off, prepared to be amazed by warm, spongy, gluten-free bread!
Transfer the bread onto a rack to cool completely, then cut into two slices.
Use your bread slices to make any sort of sandwich your heart desires! I love using it for grilled cheese sandwiches, but I’ve also used it for peanut butter and jelly with equally delicious results!
Gluten-Free Bread For One
Equipment
- Small bowl
- Sandwich container
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp water
- 3 Tbsp buttermilk
- 1/3 cup gluten-free flour blend
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sugar
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine the egg, water, and buttermilk and mix well.
- Then add the flour blend, baking powder, and sugar to the wet ingredients and stir until well combined.
- Pour the mixture into an uncovered sandwich container.
- Put the container in your microwave and cook for 85 seconds. (Could take slightly more or less time, depending on your microwave, so keep an eye on it.)
- When the timer goes off, prepared to be amazed by warm, spongy, gluten-free bread!
- Transfer the bread onto a rack to cool completely, then cut into two slices.
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I know how BAD gluten free bread can taste and this is NOTHING like it. It is delicious. I used my Tupperware breakfast maker which worked beautifully. It’s quick and easy. Make sure you note your own microwave settings for the future. Mine took only 70 seconds on high. Remember the bread will cook for at least 70 seconds after that (settle time for anyone who has forgotten that that is a “thing”). The slice looks just like the picture. I even made it into a grilled cheese. I’m not even minding being celiac when there are good options there.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Wow. I can’t believe you made it so easy! Thank you!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.But can’t I just do this and put like a whole loaf in a loaf pan in the microwave?
Regards, Mauli
If bread was meant to be easy it would be. This wasn’t very pleasant. Texture awful. Nothing like bread at all and impossible to cut. Possibly only useful in emergency, but I can’t see why there’s good comments!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I’m so glad I found this! I only had sour cream on hand so I thinned it for the buttermilk. I just ate it like plain bread, but I’m already thinking of other possibilities.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I tried this recipe at my home and my husband love it a lot. Thank you so much for sharing this delicious recipe.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I would be concerned about how safe the bread shaped mold is for the microwave but I do have a small casserole dish that is the right size.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I make about 50 different gluten free bread & roll recipes. This is a fun new one. I did make a couple of tweaks. I added a bit of garlic powder and sprinkled poppy seeds on the top. I used 1/3 up almond flour, removed 2 tablespoons and added 1 tablespoon of coconut flour. I know that makes a little less than the 1/3 cup called for, but the coconut flour absorbs more liquid. Make sire you do use a toaster oven or toast these.
My take on your recipe
•1 large egg (or 2 egg whites)
•1 tsp water
•3 Tbsp buttermilk
•1/3 cup almond flour (less 2 Tbsp)
•2 Tbsp coconut flour
•1/4 tsp baking powder
•1 tsp stevia
•pinch garlic powder
•poppy seeds (for sprinkling on top)
Prep and microwave directions are the same. While I have a bunch of microwave and silicone cookware, I noticed Dollartree had sandwich storage containers for $1.00, so I tried it with that and it worked. I did kind of like it better in the silicone rounds, but the sandwich containers makes a cute sandwich shape. I made a ham and pepper cheese grilled sandwich and it was so yummy. Thank you for the innovative recipe.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Thanks for the recipe, sounds delicious!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I cannot see having any success with cutting two SLICES from that sandwich container. I could probably cut it cross-ways (diagonally or not) to end up with two half slices. But there would be nothing to hold onto when trying to cut the one piece thinner.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.This is the best recipe I have tried so far for gluten free bread! And so easy! Thank you, thank you! I tried cooking the batter in small round containers for hamburger buns. It worked great.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Just sent my email to receive free recipes about gluten free
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Is it plain or self raising gluten free flour
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Can this bread be made ahead and stored or frozen?
Please log in or create a free account to comment.We have a good friend who’s celiac,a few years ago we found your recipe for your bread that doesn’t suck.We have passed on your page,we are lucky no one in our family is Celtic.I made the bread when our friend was coming over for a BBQ,and I wanted her to be able to have bread,she hadn’t for a long time,we all tried and enjoyed it.Anyway she will be over on Saturday,same thing,only problem is I don’t remember what I did to replace the 1 tbsp of the egg replacer ( I don’t want to get a bag ,for such a small amount). Could you please send me an answer on how to get or replace it.Thanks
Please log in or create a free account to comment.You can leave it out!
YOU SHOULD NEVER MICROWAVE IN PLASTIC… PARTICULARLY THIS KIND OF PLASTIC.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Agreed!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My fiance has celiac and loves this!! Says that it’s easily the best gluten free bread that he’s had! So much easier than trying to maintain the bricks that they call GF bread at the store! Thank you!!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.My husband has been GF for twelve years and where I live there is a bread called Schar. I found it at Market 32/Price Chopper.They carry a decent white bread and another GF bread that resembles rye bread in shape and color, which is the best,
Please log in or create a free account to comment.You can take one or two slices from that loaf, that is not very big, only five or six slices, thaw those and return the rest of the loaf to the freezer.
Made this recipe last night. Was so quick and easy. Tasted great also. I also liked the fact that I had most of the ingredients in my kitchen already. Only had to buy the buttermilk. I will definitely be making again!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I had to smile when I read this “quick” recipe…out of GF bread, but you DID have buttermilk! (Definitely not a staple in my kitchen–I’d have had to make a run to the store!) Then, for some reason, my baking powder was nowhere to be found. But never fear, substitutions to the rescue! The substitutes for each were easy…probably the biggest challenge was reducing the amounts for this “for one” recipe. Am waiting for my “buttermilk” to finish culturing, then will be whipping up my first batch of bread! Will report back when it’s done.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Thank you, Jill!
Saco Pantry makes a powdered dry buttermilk that I use all the time for baking. It’s good to have on hand, and once it’s open you need to keep it in the fridge, but it lasts forever.
Debra,
Homemade buttermilk:
4 and 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 cup milk
Place the vinegar in a glass measuring cup, and add enough milk to make 1 cup total liquid. Stir to combine and let stand for 10 to 15 minutes (The mixture will begin to curdle).
Use as needed in a recipe, or cover and refrigerate until needed.
Wow, I can’t believe some of these comments. Gratitude & problem solving skills ppl. Jeez. I am glad I found this recipe. I’m semi-new to gf. I love bread & pasta, so I had to find replacements for those, although I’ve cut eating them to 1/2 as much as I used to eat the reg kind. This will help me out a lot. Thanks!!!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Thanks for posting the bun and pancake recipes. I’m going to have to jot them down. I love my g free family members, but cooking for them can be a big headache.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.What can I use for gluten free flour?
Please log in or create a free account to comment.You can find gluten-free flour blends at most grocery stores these days! Or you can mix 1 1/3 cups tapioca flour, 1 1/3 cups brown rice flour, 1 1/3 cups cornstarch, and 1 Tbs potato starch. :-)
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I do not cook in plastic in the microwave – not good.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.You can use a small glass dish instead like lock n lock or pyrex.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I’ve loved this recipe ever since Jillee posted it the first time. For hamburger buns, I use a bun-sized ramekin. I bake a bun just before going out to a hamburger joint, take it with me, and ask that they make my burger using it. No one has minded yet.
Another of my favorite recipes (no flour mix needed) is:
1 tbsp melted butter (melt in cooking container and swish around to grease, then pour into batter)
1/4 c flax meal
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg,
2 tbsp grated cheese (Cheddar, Jack, Swiss, etc.)
Mix and cook like Jillee’s recipe. This is great for hamburger buns, too. I got this recipe from a comment on some blog a few years ago, and it has served me well, so I”m passing it on. I can throw this together very quickly.
A 3rd recipe which I have had for awhile and just now re-found is very interesting. I don’t remember ever trying it, but I’m going to now.
1 egg
1/8 c water
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
1/4 c whole chia seeds
Mix, then let set for 5 minutes to thicken. Fry like pancakes until lightly browned on both sides.
I’m always interested in quick no-grain recipes since I’m allergic to all grains, even corn! Before I realized that grains were making me sick, I loved all kinds of breads, so now I enjoy a variety of non-grain breads.
Even some restaurants are catching on — Red Robin now has gluten-free hamburger buns! And many pizza places have gluten-free crusts.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Writing those down , sounds good! U aught to put it in a blog if u don’t have one already! I will follow it!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Just what I need — another excuse to spend time online — LOL! Thanks!
IT CAN BE GLUTEN FREE FLOUR BUT MY FAMILY WON’T BUY IT UNLESS IT’S NON GMO, ORGANIC.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.TO MANY CHEMICALS IN EVEN GLUTEN FREE.
Buy the bread in the supermarket, the best is
Please log in or create a free account to comment.called Schar, and comes in a soft white bread as well as a loaf of bread that looks as if it is rye bread, and that is the best GF bread that I have found for my GF husband.
The plastic container makes it so it’s shaped like bread. For the flour blend, I’ve used the gluten free bisquick and it turns out great. Much cheaper than the other g free blends.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.flax meal is my g to egg substitute. 1 tbsp. to 3 tbsp. water. This equals one egg.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.What is in the gluten free flour blend?
Please log in or create a free account to comment.It is a blend of gluten-free flours (tapioca flour, rice flour, etc.) :-)
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I love this one. I saw it a few years ago on your site and decided to try it. This has been a lifesaver for us. My niece and sister in law are g free and it’s so nice to be able to whip it up if we don’t have gluten free bread in the house.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Microwave in plastic? Isn’t that a no-no?
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Microwaving in plastic would be a no no to me, Denise.
Please log in or create a free account to comment.I’ve read about using aquafaba as an egg substitute. I think it was 3 tablespoons for 1 egg. I haven’t yet tried it, so can’t comment on how it works.
Aquafaba is the liquid from a can of beans, usually chick peas (garbanzo).
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Can I use a non dairy milk?
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Absolutely!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Please send me recipes without egg . Thanks
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Can I use a substitute instead of an egg
Please log in or create a free account to comment.You can mix 1 Tbs of ground flax seeds with 3 Tbs of water for one egg :-)
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Thanks Jillee this is Fantastic!
Please log in or create a free account to comment.why is gluten free bread so heavy and hard??
Please log in or create a free account to comment.Gluten is what helps your bread to have that airy softness
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