Acorn Squash Bread
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Really hearty bread filled with little fruit and nut surprises inside. Eat it for breakfast or in the afternoon with a cup of tea 🙂
Author: Samantha B. Johnson
Serves: 12 slices
Ingredients
- 2 cups acorn squash
- 2 tbsp shredded orange peel
- 3 tbsp orange juice
- 4 eggs
- 1½ cup almond flour
- ⅓ cup chopped dried fruit of choice (I used gooseberries and pineapple)
- ⅓ cup pecans
- ⅓ cup raisins
- 1 inch piece ginger grated
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ cup ghee or coconut oil
- ⅓ cup honey
Instructions
- Cut acorn squash in half, scoop out seeds and cut twice again so you have 8 pieces
- Put in double boiler and boil until soft
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Scoop out acorn squash and put in bowl with all other ingredients, except for the chopped nuts and apricots, and blend with hand mixer until smooth
- Hand stir in chopped nuts and fruit
- Line a 8 x 8 baking dish with parchment paper and pour in batter
- Bake at 400 degrees for 50 min
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This looks awesome! Thanks so much for these recipes, as someone with SIBO, these are a godsend. Do you think it’s ok to substitute the honey with a different type of sugar? From an ayurvedic standpoint, heating honey is a very bad idea. I don’t bake with it for this reason and use coconute nectar or white sugar. Not sure if that feeds SIBO or not
Yea its pretty yummy! You can try another type of sweetener and see if it bothers you, but technically honey is the the only allowed sweetener on the SIBO Specific Diet.
In your acorn squash bread, is there a combination of oat flour and coconut flour that can replace the almond flour for a nut-free option, omitting the pecans as optional?
Technically oat flour is not allowed on the SIBO Specific Diet, but if you find that you don’t react to it than by all means use it. I have not used oat flour personally. Its tough finding a nut free and grain free flour and coconut flour just by itself might be too intense, its not the best flour for baking with unfortunately. I did find a squash flour (on amazon) that I have tried experimenting with but its very starchy tasting.
Hi, I’m making this bread right now, and noticed that the amount of honey isn’t listed. It just says “cup”. Is that one full cup? Thanks!
Thats odd I see the amount when I check the page. Its 1/3cup. Enjoy!
This looks wonderful. My SIBO Dx is new and I am looking for things that I can eat. I am wondering if there is another type of flour that can be substituted for the Almond? I am allergic to those as well.
I really like using chestnut flour as an alternative to almond flour. It is expensive but is really yummy in baked goods and works much better than coconut flour in terms of texture and bake-ability. I have a link to the one I like to use on my resources page- SIBO ingredients.
Is there a reason that you cook the squash in a double boiler? Can it be cooked in the oven as well? I’m new to SIBO, love cooking, but like it to be simple. just wondering if boiling vs baking does something to the flavor/texture that is different.
Baking is totally fine. I chose to do double boiler because it is much faster. 🙂
I make this all the time for dinner parties. Everyone loves it and wants to make it too. I send people home with leftovers, then, have it for breakfast the next morning. I can’t decide if it’s really a bread, or a bread pudding, or a cake. 🙂 I use dried pineapple and cranberries.
I am on the Low FODMAP/SCD diet and I’m looking at your Acorn Squash Bread recipe and there aren’t any apricots in the list of ingredients but it appears in the method…?
Can you please clarify?
Also I have never heard of an acorn squash -I live in the UK- so I’m substituting it with butternut squash.
Do you think that will work.
I can’t find dried gooseberries so may have to use just dried pineapple. Thanking you in anticipation. Mary x
I have made and love the Rosemary bread.
That was an error in the recipe. I just fixed it. Apricots should not be used. Dried pineapple will work just fine. Acorn squash has a slightly sweeter taste but Im sure it could still taste delicious with the butternut squash.
I’ve been using pumpkin instead of the acorn squash – yummy! So far I’ve used fresh pumpkin, but canned would be easier. This may be a silly question – I know that canned veggies aren’t allowed on the SIBO diet, but does that include things like beans and pumpkin?
I would use frozen beans and as for pumpkin you can get it in a box instead of a can.