Recipe: Single Serve Grain Free Cheese Bun :: Easy Like A Sunday Morning

Easy Like a Sunday Morning, that’s how the recipes in my “Easy” category will be. Nothing rushed or frantic, nothing with a long list of ingredients. Something that is so easy, you don’t really need a recipe. Something that almost cooks itself or requires no cooking at all.

For someone like me who is gluten free and mostly grain free, really good fresh-baked bread and buns or rolls are just a delicious memory. Good fresh gluten free bread is difficult to find. It is expensive and is usually made with grains that my body has trouble digesting.

Sometimes what you can’t have is the very thing you crave the most. That’s what happened to me today. This easy Cheese Bun recipe is the result of my need to satisfy such a craving. I was dying for a fried egg sandwich. I usually keep a brick loaf of gluten free bread in the freezer but had run out.

I thought about making a loaf of Pepita Pumpkin Seed Sandwich Bread. I’ve thought about making it in a slow cooker I borrowed from my daughter but I just didn’t feel I could commit to hanging around in the kitchen for the length of time it takes to make a loaf of bread.

I started plunking around online (read Pinterest) when I came across this recipe for Low Carb Cheddar Bread. A single bun that takes less than 5 minutes to prepare. Beauty! The Low Carb Cheddar recipe said to cook it in the microwave but I don’t care for baked goods done in the microwave, so I chose to bake mine in the toaster oven.

It was still pretty quick. Five minutes to mix and fifteen minutes to bake. The egg went into the frying pan while the bun was still baking. Start to finish, thirty minutes and I had a fresh, delicious fried egg, cheese bun sandwich on my plate

You can make one large bun as shown in my pictures, or divide the dough in half to make two smaller buns. I imagine you can double or triple this recipe to make extra buns but I haven’t tried that yet.

I have not been counting carbs or calories but Mr Fox has started paying more attention to those details and it is beneficial for him. This bread is fairly low in carbs but it is high in fat and calories due to the coconut oil, cheddar cheese and almond meal. For those of you who are counting, the bun has about 5g carbohydrates and 270 calories.