Showing posts with label Gluten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gluten. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Is Quinoa Gluten Free?

Quinoa is a fantastic food full of nutrients and vitamins. Quinoa is a vegetable protein that
the body finds easy to break down and digest. It also has a far lower fat content than most
meat.

For people who need to follow a gluten free diet regime the good news is that standard quinoa
grains are gluten free. Quinoa grain can be included into your diet easily and you can be
sure that as long as the other ingredients are also gluten free there will be no problem.

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There are however quinoa food products where it is not quite so clear cut. Quinoa flour and
quinoa flakes are processed quinoa and cannot be guaranteed gluten free.
The problem comes because some quinoa manufacturers use the same factory to produce other
flours. This means that there can be some cross contamination with wheat flour products.

Obviously if your gluten problem is not too severe then you could probably cope with this
slight risk. (No promises here - check with your doctor)

You hear of people reacting to nuts so violently that it can be a concern but quinoa doesn't
have the same level of reaction that nuts do.

If you are merely gluten intolerant rather than allergic to gluten this will not be a problem
for you. Using Quinoa flakes in particular is a very flexible way of eating quinoa. More recipes
and cooking methods are coming out all the time.

Quinoa Flour is much harder to use in normal baking without adding ordinary flour. There are
quinoa bread makers but this is like rye bread and is quite heavy. But if you like rye bread
you will enjoy quinoa bread. In the UK both Tesco and Sainbury's occasionally have stock of quinoa bread.

The good news however is that the standard form of quinoa as "grains" is gluten free. It is also very
high in essentials proteins and vitamins. Quinoa is good for you!

More and more suppliers of quinoa are pre-washing the quinoa which means that most or all of
the bitter saponin coating has been rinsed off before being packed.

As well as the health benefits of quinoa, we have found it to be easy to cook and very
enjoyable to eat.

Is Quinoa Gluten Free?

Find out how simply it is to cook quinoa. There are more and more quinoa recipes coming out now. You can find out how to cook quinoa. Learn the superb health benefits of eating quinoa and include quinoa as part of your diet Quinoa Health Tips

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Gluten Free Diet-Hamburger Or Hot Dog Rolls

Most people live gluten are stressed when they discover the extent of the list of foods that can not eat. They think that even if they eat hot dogs, they can never enjoy the sandwich. They will not eat hamburger and that Pattie with lettuce. This is simply not the case!
The fact is that you can own bread and rolls to make, simply by following a few simple recipes. It's a great recipe for hamburger buns and hot dog.
This recipe is so valuable because it is so easy to do. In fact, if you can bake a cake, you and this recipe.
Ingredients:
1 / 4 cup potato starch
3 / 4 cup rice flour
2 tablespoons teaspoon baking powder
1 / 2 cup tapioca starch
1 tablespoon sugar
1 / 2 c. teaspoon xanthan gum
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
1 / 2 cup milk
2 eggs
1 / 3 cup oil



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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Gluten Free Bread Making Tips

To look at gluten free recipes you would think anyone could do it but I quickly found it to be challenging and many times frustrating. I cannot tell you how many gluten free loaves of bread I threw out when I first began baking and I had been baking all my life, just not GF! It is no fun throwing anything you have spent time on baking out, but even less fun when it is gluten free because the ingredients are so expensive. Hopefully, after you read this, you will be on your way to baking beautiful loaves of GF bread!

The most valuable lesson I learned when I began is there is really no need to go and purchase GF bread cookbooks. Unfortunately, I did not figure this out until after I had purchased several, but that aside, you can use any bread recipe for baking GF bread. In fact, I prefer some of my childhood favorites, such as my Mom's cinnamon rolls or my Aunt's sourdough bread, to any of the gluten free recipes I have tried!

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The key to using "regular" recipes is finding an all purpose GF flour that you can substitute in the recipe. And believe me, this took awhile! Many blends that are on the market now are full of starches, which produce decent bread, but are full of empty carbs, and have no protein. The key to a good all purpose GF flour blend is one that contains small amounts of starches, flour that is higher in protein, and it is awesome if you can find one that contains xanthun gum, a dough enhancer that is vital in gluten free baking.

Gluten free bread making is not like traditional bread making in that you do not need to allow the dough to have two rises. When you are mixing the bread dough you will notice that it is not the same consistency as regular dough, in fact it is more like a thick gooey cake batter! Once mixed you can just place it in a greased bread pan and let rise until almost to the top of pan and then pop in preheated oven to begin baking. Many bread machines today have a GF setting, which eliminates that second rise and cuts down on overall bread making time.

Once your bread is done, whether in bread machine or oven, you will want to remove it from the pan immediately. If it is left in the pan the crust will quickly become soggy and wet, ruining your bread, so make sure you are able to remove immediately so all your hard work does not go down the drain!

These gluten free baking tips should help to make your gluten free bread making enjoyable and less frustrating.

Gluten Free Bread Making Tips

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Light Wheat Bread, Gluten Free Recipe - Although There's No Wheat In It, You Would Never Know!

The Great thing about this Gluten Free recipe is that even though there's No "Wheat" in it, you would never know! For all those Gluten Free people out there craving that Wheat bread taste again... Here is your chance.

Ingredients:

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2 cups garfava or garbanzo-bean flour
1 cup sorghum flour
2 ¼ cups tapioca flour
2 ¼ cups arrowroot flour (starch)
1 cup rice flour
1 tablespoon potato starch
2 tablespoons potato flour
2 tablespoons xanthan gum
2 packages gelatin (unflavored)
¼ cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoon salt

Mix well and keep in an airtight container. You can use cornstarch instead of arrowroot. This was originally designed to bake at an altitude of 5000+ feet so you may need to make adjustments.

Mixing time: 15 minutes
Rising time: 20 minutes
Baking time 45 minutes

Grease an 8 ¼ x 4 ¼ bread pan with lard.

In a large mixing bowl place:

2 eggs
2 Tablespoons canola or olive oil
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

Dissolve: 1 ½ tablespoons of honey in 1 ¼ cup very warm water and set aside.

In a bowl stir together:

3 cups Maria's Bread Flour Mix
2 teaspoons yeast
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon citric acid.

Directions:

Beat the egg mixture at high speed until foamy.

Add the water and honey mixture to the egg mixture and beat until it becomes foamy again.

Turn the speed low and add ½ cup of flour mix at a time (wait for it to be absorbed before you add each ½ cup).

After the flour mix is added turn the mixer to high speed and beat for about 3 minutes.

The texture should be like cake batter.

If it is too thick, add one tablespoon of warm water at a time until it is the right consistency.

Spoon it immediately into the prepared pan and carefully smooth the top.

Cover with a plastic container or large lid to keep the temperature even and put it in a warm place to rise (like on top of your oven).

Place it in the oven when the dough reaches to the top of the pan (not higher - approximately 20 minutes).

Bake for about 45 minutes at 375F.

Now when it comes out of the oven there's one last step people commonly overlook to make sure it stays fresh for days. It's so simple, just brush the top of the bread with a special ingredient EVERYONE has in their pantries!

After brushing with the special ingredient, let it totally cool on the rack.

Light Wheat Bread, Gluten Free Recipe - Although There's No Wheat In It, You Would Never Know!

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