One of the many disadvantages to being gluten-free or paleo is that burger buns usually consist of lettuce wraps. While I have nothing against lettuce wraps, they can get boring. And sometimes I just want a nice, juicy burger on some type of non-lettuce bun type thing. Not in a lettuce wrap. But there are a lot of dietary restrictions in my family – a few dairy free people, a sibling who can’t have oats, and a lot of issues with various grains.
Enter coconut flour flatbread. The idea behind this is simple; coconut flour held together and moistened with eggs and oil, flavored with salt and (optionally) honey, with baking powder to make it rise. Thankfully everybody in the family can have at least a little egg, or this would never work. But work it does, and it even holds up remarkably under the strain of my chronic Burger Over-Stuffing Syndrome (not actually a real medical condition). Behold:
Enter coconut flour flatbread. The idea behind this is simple; coconut flour held together and moistened with eggs and oil, flavored with salt and (optionally) honey, with baking powder to make it rise. Thankfully everybody in the family can have at least a little egg, or this would never work. But work it does, and it even holds up remarkably under the strain of my chronic Burger Over-Stuffing Syndrome (not actually a real medical condition). Behold: