Recipe for low-carb challah

[mishka]

I am looking for a recipe for low-carb challah. Has anyone seen one? I have been looking but having no luck.

[maxlharris]

I found this:


3/4 cup Soy milk, room temperature
3 tablespoons Honey
2 1/4 teaspoons Yeast
3 cups Bread flour
1/2 cup Soy flour
1/4 cup Soybean oil
3 Eggs
1 Egg yolk
2 tablespoons Poppy seeds (for topping)
1 Egg white (for glaze)

Directions:
Mix the soy milk, honey, and yeast and set it aside for 10 minutes. Combine the bread flour and soy flour in a large bowl. Add the oil, eggs, and egg yolk to the milk, honey, and yeast mixture. Stir with a wooden spoon until blended. Add the flours to the liquid mixture, stir until a dough is formed, and turn the dough out onto a floured board.

Knead until dough is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Form into a ball, coat with a bit of soybean oil, and place in a covered bowl. Let rise until doubled in bulk, about an hour. Punch the dough down, knead about 3 minutes, and braid or shape into any desired form. Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat the egg white with a folk. Use a brush to coat the top of the loaf. Sprinkle poppy seeds on top of loaf. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool on a rack.

NOTES: This recipe won first place in a special competition at the Ohio State Fair this year: Cooking with Ohio's Soy Foods, sponsored by the Ohio Soybean Council. It also received an award of Excellence rosette.


You can also use this recipe in a bread machine, either by going through the whole cycle, or by using the dough setting and shaping the dough into a large braid, which is what I usually do.


If you're not wild about soy, you can change the soy milk to water, and the soy oil to another kind of oil.
I'm not wild about soy. I'm also not wild about honey. I suppose you could use an artificial SF honey replacement. And Bread flour is probably wheat and therefore still pretty carby. The poster did not give nutritional information and I'm frankly too lazy to run it through a program, but this doesn't seem that low carb.

I did see that Cheeters Diet Treats made or makes a low carb challah, but I'm skeptical of the ability of a non-carby flour mix to yield a worthwhile bread.