Vegan Bread Recipes: Nutrient-Dense Homemade Bread

Whether you’re craving a sweet bread or savory, we have a vegan bread recipe for you. Bonus: juicer tips straight from the source!

A Note from Jen

A few years ago, we made a pledge to come up with as many ideas we could that were supportive of PURE’s commitment to Zero Waste. We used pulp from our juices to make pasta, muffins, face masks, house cleaners and polishes, crackers, dog treats and more. What we didn’t expect is loving the process of using the PURE Juicer so much that we’d continue to come up with more recipes because we love them (as much as Mother Earth does).

Using your PURE Juicer gives you the flexibility and creativity to make the things that you love. From milks, to spice mixes, to . . . homemade bread! Yes, that’s right: delicious, nutrient-dense vegan bread.

It has been my dream to utilize leftover juice pulp to make homemade breads. In this blog, we show you a few options that we hope will inspire your baking.

– Jen Longtin, Chief Juicing Officer

Tips for Making Homemade Bread with a Juicer

Make Applesauce for Vegan Bread in Your Juicer

Why buy applesauce when you can make it in your PURE? Don’t buy it. Don’t cook it. Simply grind up some apples and add the applesauce to your recipe.

If you want to add a little lemon on the mash, you can and it will keep it from turning brown.

Try our purees and baby food recipes

Use Ground Carrots or Carrot Pulp to Make Moist, Delicious Sweet Bread

We use ground carrots when we make carrot cake. The recipe below uses the pulp, which thickens the batter and provides a nice texture to the bread.

If your batter ever gets too dry, add a little of the juice back or add some water.

Check out our homemade carrot cake muffins recipe

Grind Spices for Bread in Your PURE Juicer

We cannot stress how much better fresh spices are than ones you purchase in a jar. When you do this, be sure to use a tall glass to cover the feed chute completely and fill and cover the feed chute before you turn the PURE on.

Check out our spicy chai spice tea recipe

Dehydrate pulp and be creative. We have been dehydrating our juice pulp and including them as a topping (or using them for tea). These last a long time and offer color, flavor, and a personal flair.

Vegan Bread Recipes

Vegan Carrot-Apple Sweet Bread

Dry Ingredients

• 2 cups self-rising flour
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick (ground)
• 1 green cardamom pod (ground)

Wet Ingredients

• 2 cups applesauce (about 2 granny smith apples)
• ½ cup flax oil
• 3 tbsp flax meal
• 7½ tbsp water
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 sheet of carrot pulp (about 4 carrots)

Topping Spices

(see notes on grinding spices below)

• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 green cardamom pods
• ¼ tsp cloves
• ¼ tsp ginger
• ¼ tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp sugar (coconut sugar works great too)

We used pulp powder from orange, clove, ginger, turmeric mixed with sugar to top this bread but you can use ground spices too.

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Butter a baking dish. Several small ramekins, one loaf pan, or 8×8 pan all work great.
3. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
4. Combine all the wet ingredients together in a small bowl and mix into the dry ingredients.
5. Pour into prepared buttered baking dish
6. Mix all the ground topping spices together with sugar. Sprinkle on the top before baking.
7. Bake for 60-70 minutes at 350 degrees until top is golden.
8. Let completely cool, slice, and enjoy with carrot juice!

Notes for Using the PURE Juicer

Grinding spices: Use a #2 grid. Put the cinnamon and cardamom pod into the feed chute, cover, turn on and grind. The spices will come out quite fast. If you have a tall jar that covers the bottom of the chute, it will help with ground spices flying everywhere.

Making applesauce: Use a #4 grid. Put apple slices into the feed chute, cover, turn on and press all apples through the chute. Clean the grid plate and feed chute to make sure to get all the applesauce.

Making carrot pulp: Use a #10 grid. Push carrots through the feed chute. Wrap the mash in a cloth and press. One cloth will work for four carrots. Save the pulp to use for the wet ingredients, and the juice to enjoy with your finished recipe.

Vegan Layered Olive Oil Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 tbsp of plant-based milk (oat, cashew, or almond are great options)
• 7 tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 3 tbsp fresh parmesan
• ½ cup fresh basil
• 2 cups fresh spinach
• 1/2 medium beet, pulp

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Combine the milk and 5 tbsp of oil in a small bowl.
3. Mix flour and parmesan in a large bowl.
4. Mix the oil mixture into the flour and cheese until a wet but firm dough forms.
5. The spinach/basil mash and beet pulp will be used as the filling in the biscuits. Save some beet pulp to sprinkle on top before baking.
6. Dust your countertop lightly with flour and knead the dough until smooth.
7. Roll the dough to ¼ inch thick. Using a round cookie cutter, cut biscuits. If you don’t have a cutter, roll dough into a tube and slice discs creating ¼ inch biscuits.
8. Put one biscuit on a parchment lined baking sheet, spread a layer of spinach/basil mash and beet pulp, and top with a second biscuit.
9. Brush the top with saved olive oil and sprinkle with beet pulp.
10. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until they are just firm and the tops are golden brown.

Notes for Using the PURE Juicer

Making spinach-basil mix: Use a #4 grid. Fill the feed chute with greens, cover, turn on and press. Continue until all the greens are done. Clean out the grid plate and feed chute to get all the spinach-basil mash.

Making beet pulp: Use a #10 grid. Push beets through the feed chute. Prepare mash to be pressed: 1 cloth for ½ beet is plenty, a press bag works great too. Press prepared pulp. Save the pulp for this recipe and the juice to enjoy while savoring your Olive Oil Biscuits.

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About the Ingredients

apples: nutrient dense and high in soluble fiber, apples are a good source of vitamin C and antioxidants like vitamin E and polyphenols.

basil: fresh basil is fragrant and contains many antioxidants.

beets: beets are nutrient-rich, containing folate and manganese, among other vitamins and minerals.

cardamom: cardamom is a fragrant spice with antioxidant compounds.

carrots: carrots are a familiar source of carotenoids, the natural precursor to vitamin A, and they add natural sweetness.

cinnamon: a sweet, warming spice that pairs well with apples and carrots.

cloves: the flower buds of the evergreen clove tree, cloves are a sweet spice with a long history in traditional cooking.

ginger: ginger contains gingerol, the compound that gives it its spicy bite.

olive oil: olive oil contains plant-based antioxidant compounds and is rich in monounsaturated fat.

spinach: a nutrient-rich leafy green that blends easily into savory fillings.

turmeric: turmeric adds a golden color and warm, earthy flavor, and it contains curcumin.

vanilla extract: in addition to the calming aroma and pleasing taste of vanilla, vanilla beans contain antioxidant compounds.

Sources

The benefits of adding a drizzle of olive oil to your diet

8 Impressive Health Benefits of Apples

Health Benefits of Basil

The Health Benefits of Beets

Carrots 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits

10 Health Benefits of Cardamom, Backed by Science

5 Health Benefits of Cinnamon

8 Surprising Health Benefits of Cloves

11 Proven Health Benefits of Ginger

10 Proven Health Benefits of Turmeric and Curcumin

6 Benefits of Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Beans

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