My Olive Chickpea Flour Bread recipe brings you a fresh homemade vegan and gluten free bread with extra flavor. Using my Olive Hummus in combination with chickpea flour results in a hearty taste that will blow you away. And you make this homemade bread sensation from only 5 ingredients.
There are few things that I love more than the smell of freshly baked bread filling my kitchen.
I have never made a secret out of the fact that I have a real weakness for homemade bread, and you know that well after having seen some of my previous recipes: The Hummus Homemade Bread, for example, or the Easy Roasted Garlic Naan.
It has been some time so I have really started to miss the smell of a new homemade bread baking in my oven. Nothing beats the delicious smell.
You really know what’s inside, unlike most of the time you buy something in the store.
Is it even vegan? Or gluten free for that matter? I bet most of the time, it is not. Plus they may have a lot of chemicals and weird additives that I personally do not want in my body.
I hope you guys come on board to make your own Olive Chickpea Flour Bread. This new recipe is a winner. The bread comes out addicting, tastes and smells amazing, is easy, homemade, versatile, drool-worthy, beautiful, full of flavor, gluten free, vegan, and simply delicious.
Before we move into the kitchen and I tell you how to make the homemade bread, I like to give you some extra advice.
While I often encourage you in my recipes to play around and adjust it to your liking, it is really important to follow the instructions here carefully.
Please don’t skip a step, or use different ingredients. You only need 5 ingredients and 3 easy steps, so it’s no big deal to follow the instructions precisely.
Please don’t use another hummus here, just stick to my Olive Hummus because the recipe is designed with it for the best flavor experience. With another hummus I can’t vouch for a similar result, taste, and texture.
In fact when you make the Olive Hummus, it’s important to add 6 more cloves of garlic. Also don’t drain the chickpeas but reserve the chickpea brine for the bread. It’s a binder and absolutely necessary for the texture, please don’t skip this.
When giving the sunflower seeds on top, cover the pan with aluminium foil. Otherwise the seeds will easily burn. It is really import to stick with baking time.
You only need chickpea flour for this gluten free homemade bread, not 5 different flours which you can find in many recipes when it comes to gluten free baking. Yes you have to make a mix with some different flours.
Now we are ready to head straight into the kitchen and start baking now, shall we?
First make the Olive Hummus according the directions and as I mentioned above do not drain the chickpeas. Reserve the chickpea brine and add 6 more cloves of garlic to the hummus.
Next mix hummus, chickpea flour, lemon juice, baking soda, the reserved chickpea brine, a pinch of salt in a bowl. Use a spatula to combine all until you have a well mixed dough.
Last step: Transfer dough to a baking pan prepared with parchment paper. Top with sunflower seeds, cover the pan with aluminium foil, and bake for 70 minutes at 405°F.
I really like to enjoy this bread warm, but it’s also amazing to let it cool. Both ways are delicious.
You can enjoy this plain, with some vegan butter, hummus, some veggies. It also makes a great sandwich bread for so many things, dream big.
Enjoy a big slice of my Olive Chickpea Flour Bread
Do you know with every slice of this Olive Chickpea Flour Bread you enjoy really fantastic health stars on top? Sunflower seeds high in vitamins like vitamin E, minerals, folate.
With just 1/4 cup of these little showstoppers you get 60% of your daily intake of vitamin E.
But there is so much more to see: they high in phytosterols, which help to keep your cholesterol level low and are also a magnificent source of magnesium.
And it makes you happy, no joke! Sunflower seeds, thanks to the good amount of magnesium are a mood changer. Whenever you had a tough day eat some sunflower seeds and get happy.
Yes for real bake this Olive Chickpea Flour Bread, enjoy the amazing taste and get your mind blown with many more benefits.
If you need more reasons for making it than check this article “5 Health Benefits of Sunflower Seeds“.
If you give this a try, taste and smell it in your kitchen. Tag me on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook, take a picture and let me see all your fantastic creations.
I can’t wait to see it. Happy baking, Florian.
Olive Chickpea Flour Bread
My Olive Chickpea Flour Bread recipe brings you a fresh homemade vegan and gluten free bread with extra flavor. Using my Olive Hummus in combination with chickpea flour results in a hearty taste that will blow you away. And you make this homemade bread sensation from only 5 ingredients.
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cup chickpea flour
- Olive Hummus
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Make the Olive Hummus according the directions and as I mentioned above do not drain the chickpeas. Reserve the chickpea brine and add 6 more cloves of garlic to the hummus.
- Mix hummus, chickpea flour, lemon juice, baking soda, the reserved chickpea brine, a pinch of salt in a bowl. Use a spatula to combine all until you have a well mixed dough.
- Transfer dough to a baking pan prepared with parchment paper. Top with sunflower seeds, cover the pan with aluminium foil, and bake for 70 minutes at 405°F.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1 sliceAmount Per Serving: Calories: 77Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0.7gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 142mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 0.8gSugar: 1.6gProtein: 2.6g
This looks interesting! I will have to try this!
Let me know what you think!
Hi, this sounds yummy, especially since we grow our own olives, but i live i Greece and i can’t open the other ingredients lists using my zip code! Help, please!!!
Hi Zografia! Many greetings to the lovely Greece! You can get the other ingredients easily at any organic store, or food market. Otherwise you can try it online, let me know if you need any further help!
Hi,
Can you do this recipe in breadmaker ?
Hi Madga! I’m not sure, because, I don’t have a bread maker and never did that before. I can’t vouch for accurate results. If you do this let me know, I’m curious about your experience.
Hi Florian,
Thank you for recipe I did tried in breadmaker and it worked really well !
Olive hummus is just to die for !
I done my bread on ‘gluten free’ option – took 2 hours 54 minutes (
usual bread take around 3.20 white 3.45 brown)
Atough I have added pumpkin and chia seeds as well as sunflower.
I be back to more ! 😉
Many thanks again
Hi Madga,
Thanks so much for your amazing feedback. Glad it was such a big hit and worked so well in a bread maker. I’ll have to try with pumpkin and chia seeds next time sounds so good!
Did you add the additional seeds in the dough or on top?
Hi there, can I make this bread without the hummus?
Hi Antonia! Definitely no! You really need the hummus for the bread. It makes the texture and flavor!
Looks amazing! I wonder though, I always make my chickpeas from scratch (soak them and boil them), meaning I don’t have a brine just like the one with cannes chickpeas. What would a good substitute be for this? Cheers!
Hi Andrea! Just use the water from the cooked chickpeas!
Hi!
This looks amazing. Ia have a little probleemi though. I am from Finland And I have Never reserved the chickpead And It is a whole new thing to me. What It means in a nutshell and how I do it?
Hey there! Chickpea brine is the liquid from cooked chickpeas. Do not drain them, reserve it. You use the liquid from your canned chickpeas. Hope that helps!
Hi Florian,
thanks for the recipe. It looks very good, so Im planning to make it but I have some doubts.
The recipe sasy 1 batch of the olive hummus. Does that mean I need to put all of the hummus from your Olive Hummus recipe (ie. 400 g chickpeas + 400 g olive oil) for the 3 1/2 cups of flour? For me it seems too much of hummus, could you please specify the amount of hummus? Thank you!
Hi Linda! You need to make the Olive Hummus for this bread. You combine the hummus with the flour. If you have any concerns to use the whole batch of hummus, reduce the amount I guess you will need more liquid in order to make the dough working. I always used the whole batch, because I really like the flavor and texture. Hope that helps!
Hi Florian,
Thanks for your help. So I made it, with the whole amount of hummus, and finally 500 g chickpea flour. There was some confusion about the amount of flour to use, since I am used to measure by weight and found on the internet that 1 cup of chickpea flour weights 92 grams. So at first I used 3,5 times this amount, but this way tha batter was too wet. So I checked myself how much 240 ml (1 cup) of my chickpea flour weights and it turns out to be 150 grams… So 500 g (all I had at home) is almost what the recipe requires, I used all but no chickpea cooking juice at all since I still found it too wet to add more liquid.
The result is a very tasty bread, finally it grew significantly (unlike my other experiments with GF breads using dry yiest) but the consistence is very weak, crumbling and falling apart when sliced. Anyway thank you once more for the recipe.
I made it just now, it has perfect taste!!! Just one thing what didn’t go well, it is not possible make nice slices of it. But the taste is perfect really. I will do it again. Do you have idea how can I make it more slicable?
Hi Magdi! Thanks for your amazing feedback. Happy it was a hit! I made it all the time and never experienced this issue. Maybe next time let it cool a bit longer, before slicing.
Made it and it’s delicious. I agree with waiting a bit longer to cut it. I let it cool a little longer and it sliced perfectly.
Glad it was such a big hit, Ashleigh! One of my favorites!
I’m OBSESSED with this bread! I just made it this morning but did not have olives, so I added about 3/4 extra cup of chickpeas instead. Oh and I added 2 flax eggs to help keep it bound together. It is almost biscuit-like…holds up very well. My husband and I are IN LOVE. Thank you for posting this! 💗💗💗💗
Thanks so much for your fantastic feedback, Christy! Happy to hear it was such a big hit with you and your husband. I made it all the time! One of my favorites! Really hope you’ll try lots of more recipes.
My husband is on a food elimination diet that excluded almost all grains and I searched and searched for a recipe that I could make so he could have bread. He was allowed chickpeas (and all the other ingredients except the sunflower)… I made just as described (excluding the sunflower) and added some sesame seeds on the top. He loves it! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for your amazing feedback, Lorraine! Glad it was such a big hit with your husband!
Hi Florian.
I tried this recipe today and loved the results. My friend’s teenager son called it the falafal bread:)
As an Indian, I use chickpea flour (besan) in my cooking regularly–especially to make besan chillas (pancakes). So I was intrigued to try out your recipe as it gives me the flexibility to freeze the bread and use it when I’m in a rush.
I added two green chilies to the mixture. Whoever’s tasted the bread so far has loved it.
Thank you.
Arti
Thanks so much for your amazing feedback, Arti! Glad it was such a big hit! One of my favorites! I’ll have to try with the green chilies next time!
Hi! Made it! Turned out great!
Love the texture and taste, but most of all that you don’t need to use many different types of flour!
Will definitely make it part of my regular baking.
Thank you so much for the recipe
Pukh
Hi Pukh! Thanks a bunch for your amazing feedback and making it! It’s so easy, no need for many flours! I hope you’ll find lots of more recipes to try!
Hi made it and came out really good. Will definitely make it again.
Thanks so much for your amazing feedback and making it, Sejal! I hope you’ll find lots of more recipes to try!
So delicious… Had to double check its nutritional information because it tasted too good to be so healthy. Nevertheless its super nutritious!
Best bread made I’ve ever tasted that’s been made with an alternative flour!