Super easy Dukan Diet bread

‘Diet bread’. Doesn’t sound very sexy, does it. ‘Diet bread that actually tastes really good’ is a tad too long. But trust me this ‘bread’ is well worth making even if the title lets it down somewhat.

I have doing pretty well with my diet and I am very chuffed with myself for finally taking up running again – almost every day! Admittedly asthmatic dogs run faster than me but you have to start somewhere…

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the diet. I have been eating a lot of soups and lots of very healthy but incredibly tasty meals but I did miss bread… so much so that I searched for a diet bread recipe.

In the end, the recipe that most often comes top on Google searches is for Dukan bread – and if you are not familiar with the Dukan it is a high protein diet that was all the rage a few years ago.

I followed it pretty closely and did lose quite a lot of weight on it BB (=before blog) – but I am convinced what made the real difference was regular exercise.

The Dukan diet advocates the use of oatbran and it is what makes up the bulk of this bread – it doesn’t contain any flour. I have tweaked this recipe a few times to get to this result and I think it works really well.

As an added bonus it doesn’t require kneading (despite the yeast) and can be thrown together really quickly.

Note: yes this bread contains two sachets of active yeast (not a typo!). Since the bread is not kneaded or given time to prove the yeast acts as a rising agent in the same way you would use baking powder in cake.

I have had good results with this recipe and I hope you will too! Oatbran, wheatgerm and milled flaxseed are usually available in most supermarkets (or on Amazon)