Vegan Gluten Free French Bread Recipe

Spoiler alert: gluten-free French baguettes are not hard to make! In fact, they have only three ingredients and don't require much hands-on time at all (this recipe is no-knead). Here I've been searching the internet for a good gluten-free baguette, and it was in my kitchen the entire time.

If you haven't made these yet, I am so happy you stumbled across this page.They are soft on the inside and crusty on the outside. Plus, I share a trick for getting that golden crust you've grown to love. And I linked the best super-affordable baguette mold to make up for the fact that gluten-free flour rises horizontally (rather than vertically).

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Don't trust the non-gluten-free recipes that claim gluten-free flours “will work too”. This is what you really need to get the perfect gluten-free baguette!

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The best pre-made gluten-free flours for bread are Pamela's All-Purpose Gluten-free Flour and Bob's Red Mill gluten-free flour. These two blends are tried and true for many baking recipes, and especially bread.

I used Pamela's All Purpose Gluten-free flour blend and found that the taste and texture of the gluten-free French baguette was just like the traditional!

You cannot get a true baguette flavor without yeast! I promise that with this no-knead recipe, it will also be no fuss. However, if you prefer bread with baking soda, check out our Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread recipe.

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Dry yeast is naturally gluten-free. However, some brands add starch to the final product to prevent clumping. Always check the ingredients list for additives or stick to a known gluten-free yeast brand, like Red Star.

Without salt, bread is simply flour and yeast. Perhaps salt’s most important role is making bread flavorful and delicious! Of course, we include it in this recipe.

You will not find any milk in this recipe. While many gluten-free bread recipes include dairy milk, traditional baguettes are made with four simple ingredients: flour, yeast, water, and salt.

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The French love to layer butter or jam on their baguettes, and rarely eat the bread plain by itself. Other delightful accompaniments include butter with a thin slice of ham, cheese, chocolate spread like Nutella, and honey. French bread is also commonly used to wipe the plate clean at the end of a meal.

I almost always make French baguettes with soup or stew. I also love adding coconut butter and a pinch of sea salt (the dairy-free version of ‘salted butter’) or honey. If I make enough, it's also my favorite sandwich bread!

Baking at a high temperature for at least 40 minutes is the most important step for making a french baguette crispy. Adding a water bath of 2 cups of boiling water in a bowl or pan on a rack below the bread for the first 10 minutes of baking will also encourage a crispy crust.

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To get a proper baguette shape using gluten-free flour, you will need to use a mold. This is because gluten is responsible for holding bread together so the bread can rise upwards.

In gluten-free bread, you replace gluten with xanthan or guar gums. These gums serve a similar purpose but are not as strong as gluten. You need a baguette mold to encourage vertical rise from the outside.

After a lot of research, I finally settled on this affordable silicon baguette pan. I highly recommend it, and this recipe will make the exact amount of dough needed to fill it.

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The second is after the bread is formed (and before scoring) for 1-2 hours. If you cut rise time short, your baguette will be denser.

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This is a super fun trick I'll be using for all my future crusty bread recipes! Pour two cups of boiling water in an oven-safe bowl or a deep pan.

Make sure there are two racks in the oven. The water bath goes on the lower rack, with the bread loaves on the upper rack. Then you bake for 10 minutes before removing the water bath.

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Other than removing the water bath, keep the oven closed for the duration of baking. Releasing heat too soon can prevent the bread from rising or forming a tough crust. You can use the oven light to check on progress.

This easy 3-ingredient gluten-free french baguette recipe gives three beautifully crusty loaves that taste just like the real thing! Perfect for a dinner side, sandwiches, or snacking. Vegan.

*Using a baguette pan/mold: Without using a baguette pan or mold, the dough will spread horizontally instead of rising vertically. This is because gluten encourages vertical rise. To remedy this with gluten-free baguettes, use a mold or baguette pan. You can also get creative with silpat, a baking dish, and ramekins like I did here: (photo of weird baguette).

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** Gluten-Free Flours: I tried both Pamela's All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour and Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 gluten-free flours and this recipe works great with both! The dough is a little more wet with Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 and the final product is still excellent. Note that King Arthur GF Measure for Measure flour says Not recommended as 1:1 substitute for yeasted recipes on the packaging, and will not work with this recipe. For more flour notes please read the comments.

Storage: Store on the counter for up to 3 days, wrapped in a cotton dishtowel. You can also freeze the baguettes for up to 3 months. Allow to cool and wrap in plastic or slice into a ziploc bag before freezing. Reheat frozen baguettes in the oven at 400 degrees F until heated through (about 5-10 minutes).These classic loaves of gluten free French bread are just as crusty outside, soft and tender inside, as you remember. They're even quick and easy enough to make on a weeknight!

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This recipe for gluten free French bread rises fast and bakes even faster. It makes the perfect baguette for sandwiches, garlic bread, and bruschetta.

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These baguettes have a thin, crisp outside crust and a soft, almost squishy inside. They're as quick and easy to make as they are versatile.

The dough should be chilled for at least 30 minutes in a sealed container in the refrigerator before shaping, but it doesn't need a long first rise or rest. The recipe makes 2 10-inch rolls, but you can also make one roll that's double the length. You can even double the recipe, since it makes a small batch as it is.

The recipe calls for using a stand mixer, since the dough really does need to be beaten vigorously until it takes on a “whipped” appearance, almost like thick mashed potatoes. That is what helps create that tender crumb. If you don't have a stand mixer, try using a food processor fitted with the steel blade.

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When I use my gluten free bread flour blend to make baguettes, I shape them a bit differently, much like I do our Olive Garden style soft breadsticks. That involved patting and rolling the dough into a rectangle, folding both of the long sides toward the center, then doubling the rectangle on itself. That's a classic way to create a baguette shape.

This recipe is made using one of my preferred all purpose gluten free flour blends (preferably, Better Batter), rather than bread flour. It isn't as similar to conventional gluten-containing bread dough, like our gluten free bread recipe for sandwiches, and it doesn't rise quite as readily. I find that when I use that other shaping method, there are more likely to be gaps in the bread after baking.

Here, I like to shape the dough by creating a cohesive piece of raw bread dough by pinching together any and all gaps in the dough, so they don't separate during rising and baking. Then, roll out the dough with the palms of your hands, so the dough is thicker in the center, and tapered toward the ends.

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The best way to explain the shaping method is to watch the how-to video that is included in this post. But in case you aren't able to see that, I'd explain it in the following way:

Position the palms of both hands right next to one another on the top of the cylinder of dough. Roll the dough first away from your body and then back toward it as you move your hands in a half moon motion away from one another, toward the edges of the dough.

For general tips on how to bake gluten free yeast bread, please click through to that post. But be sure to come back here for this gf French bread recipe!

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Have you ever seen those baguette pans, which look like side-by-side slings made of metal, with a million little perforations? You don't need one of those.

I actually used to have a baguette pan, but I can't find it. That means that I must have given it away because it always drove me crazy when I tried to store it in a cabinet in my non-industrial-sized kitchen. I'm not sorry it's gone.

Those pans are, indeed, useful because they allow circulation of air all around the bread as it bakes. That's part of what creates a thin but extra-crispy crust even on the bottom of the bread—and helps shape the bread

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