Lack of wheat flour in your diet is no reason to give up delicious, flavorful baked goods. A wide range of products in stores makes it easy to replace wheat flour. Let’s consider the most popular alternatives.
Rice flour
Answering the question of whether wheat flour can be replaced with rice flour, the answer is “unequivocally, yes!”. Moreover, it is the most popular alternative. All because rice flour is neutral in flavor and stores perfectly.
When preparing dough, rice flour is better mixed with any other flour. This will help to avoid increased dryness of the finished product, thereby improving the flavor.
Buckwheat flour
Buckwheat flour has a rather unusual flavor. To soften it, you can mix it with other, more neutral in flavor, varieties of flour.
It is suitable for waffles, pancakes, noodles, as well as bread. At the same time, it is low in calories and is suitable for the diet of thin people.
Corn flour
Corn flour is also one of the popular alternatives to wheat flour. In many countries it is used for cooking various dishes because of its flavor, not because of the need to replace wheat flour. Because of this, you can find interesting recipes from around the world online.
It is suitable for bread making, tortillas, chips. It can also be added to soups, sauces or boil porridge.
Oat flour
Scientists still argue about including oatmeal and oat flour in the diet. All because of the risk of cross contamination.
Many people exclude it completely from the diet, which is not worth doing. It has a good effect on the GI tract, while healing the mucosa, which suffers from celiac disease.
It is better to choose oat flour labeled “gluten-free”, so the risk of ingestion of hidden gluten is reduced to zero.
Oat flour makes excellent puffy baked goods, so it is most often used for baked goods. It can also be used to make cookies, sweet bread with dried fruits and nuts, homemade noodles, dumplings.
Potato flour
Potato flour is a truly universal product, it can be used for almost everything: baking, soups, sauces, batter.
To prepare baked goods, it should be mixed with other flours in a 1:1 ratio. If this is not done, baked goods will turn out too dense. The best for mixing is millet and rice flour.
The only disadvantage of potato flour is a high calorie content. Do not get carried away with products prepared from it, if you do not want to gain weight.