Healthy Vegan Pumpkin Bread

Serves: 5

Aurelia Collier

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

56

Spice

60

Sweetness

48

Sourness

44

mins

Prep time (avg)

3.6

Difficulty

Ingredients:

1 cup

Chia Seed

1 cup

Water (hot)

1.5 cups

Spelt Flour

2 tsps

Baking Powder

1 tsp

Salt

Directions:

1

Place a steamer insert into a saucepan and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer

2

Bring water to a boil

3

Add pumpkin, cover, and steam until fully cooked, 35 to 45 minutes

4

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)

5

Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan with olive oil

6

Place chia seeds in a blender; add hot water and let sit for 5 minutes

7

Scoop flesh out of pumpkin halves and add to blender

8

Add crystallized sugar cane juice and agave nectar to blender; blend until pumpkin mixture is very smooth

9

Mix spelt flour, brown rice flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves together in a bowl

10

Fold pumpkin mixture and walnuts into flour mixture until batter is just mixed; spoon into the prepared loaf pan

11

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 1 to 1 1/2 hours