Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Substitutions

When cooking or baking using a normal recipe, here are some things you can substitute for their gluten containing counterparts.


Angel Hair noodles = Rice Sticks (buy at Asian Marts thinnest they have)
Spaghetti noodles = Brown rice spaghetti (buy at Winco in bulk section)
Macaroni noodles = Brown rice elbow/macaroni (buy at winco in bulk section)
Lasagna noodles = Tinkyada lasagne with rice bran brown rice pasta (walmart)
Linguini noodles = Rice Sticks (thicker version buy at Asian Marts)
Rue (flour and butter together in a recipe) = Make the recipe excluding the rue.  When you are done with the recipe add a cornstarch slurry made with 50/50 cornstarch and cold water mixed together.  Boil for 2 minutes after the slurry is added to remove the cornstarch taste.  (Can use arrowroot or tapioca starch, we prefer cornstarch because it is the cheapest to purchase)
Quick Bread baking recipe (zucchini bread, banana bread etc.) = Replace flour with half rice flour and half cornstarch.  Add ½ tsp of xanthan gum per cup of flour.  If it does not rise the way you would like it increase the leavening agent (baking powder or baking soda are the two most common in quick bread)
Soy Sauce (most contain wheat) = San-J Tamari Gluten Free Soy Sauce (we found the cheapest place to purchase it is Maceys but it is also available at Winco)
Baking = Baking (other than quick bread) does not allow straight across substitutions because of the missing function of the gluten so a special gluten free recipe is needed.  For our baking projects we take our recipes from this site http://www.eatingglutenfree.com/ or this site http://www.lifetastesgoodagain.blogspot.com/ they are both by the same two ladies they just have different recipes on each site.  All the recipes we have tried taste great!  I particularly recommend their chocolate cake, which is listed on the first site.  It is absolutely amazing and tastes exactly like a delicious moist regular flour cake.

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