Gluten Free Vegan Garbanzo/Quinoa Flour Bread Sticks

I picked up a box of organic quinoa flour from Whole Foods last night. I heard that it has a nutty taste to it and that definitely intrigued me. I actually saw it being used in a non gluten free recipe for brownies so that definitely intrigued me. I would say this invention is something akin to the bread stick version of socca (French) or farinita (Italian.)

You will find I suggest using yeast in the recipe but actually I was thinking of this more for the flavor that it brings to the bread versus any actual rising action that it might inspire in the dough. You could actually use this as a pizza crust but I think it works wonderfully as indicated in the below recipe.

Gluten Free Vegan Garbanzo/Quinoa Flour Bread Sticks

• 1 cup Garbanzo Flour
• 1 cup Quinoa Flour
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 Tablespoon yeast
• 1 Tablespoon cane sugar
• 1/2 cup warm water
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 1 tablespoon salt and 2 tablespoons mixed herbs

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

2. Mix 1/2 cup warm water with yeast and sugar. Set aside for 5 minutes.

3. Add olive oil to water yeast mix. Add flours, salt and baking soda. Mix everything together.

4. Divide dough into 4 balls.

5. Take one of your 4 balls of dough and by dividing it into halves make 8 small balls. Roll each ball out on a cutting board into thick noodles. 

6. Using seasoning of your choice, mixed dry herbs and salt, roll your rolled out dough pieces gently in the seasoning to coat. 

7. Place bread sticks onto foiled baking sheet. 

8. Bake in oven for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and carefully flip the sticks over. Bake for an additional 10 minutes. 

9. Remove from oven, cool and remove from pan. 

Enjoy! xoxo - Iris