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Gluten-Free Breakfast

Gluten-Free Pancakes

by Emilia on February 12, 2008

Pancakes

This recipe is egg-free, milk-free and gluten-free.

These are just basic pancakes, they are easy to make and taste really good. You can add spices like nutmeg or cinnamon to them, just a pinch of turmeric gives them a nice color, and of course you can add shredded coconut to them, berries, chocolate chips, vanilla, almost anything. I like mine just plain, sometimes I add a bit of mashed banana to them; it gives these pancakes more substance and they are a bit moister that way.

I use quinoa flour here, since it is my favorite in gluten-free cooking. Be careful with leaving quinoa flour to sit, since it can get a bit bitter, especially if you leave it over night like I did once and learned the hard way not to leave my quinoa flour. Just let it sit for about 10-15 minutes, or just cook them right away. I use a non stick pancake pan, I don´t know how these pancakes would behave if I would use something like a cast iron pan.

Gluten-Free Pancakes

- 1 1/4 cups quinoa flour

-1/2 tsp salt

-3 tsp baking powder

- 3tbls melted margarine or oil, I use coconut oil

- 1 1/3 cups soy milk, or more, you have to see how wet the batter becomes

-1 tbls syrup or sugar

Be careful with your batter so that it doesn´t become too moist or too dry, add the liquid gradually if you want to be on the safe side.

Mix the dry ingredients, then mix the wet ingredients, then mix everything together, don´t overmix, leave some lumps. Heat your pan at medium heat and grease it, then start cooking, cook them until the batter is not liquid anymore, it shouldn´t be all done, just firmed up a bit, then flip them and cook the other side too.

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Gluten-free bread

by Emilia on February 7, 2008

Gluten-free bread

This bread is really easy to make and it tastes very good, most importantly it doesn’t have that strange gummy texture most gluten free breads have. Dark rice flour adds some of that “dark bread” taste to this, which I like, if you are not a fan of that particular taste you can just use quinoa flour. I like using my pizza stone to bake bread with, since it seems to add a whole different taste to the bread, and of course I love the crust it makes.

Gluten-free basic bread

Dry ingredients
-3 dl of quinoa flour
-2 dl dark rice flour
- 1 tsp salt

Wet ingredients
-1 1/2 dl soy milk
-1 1/2 dl water

-3 tbls of psyllium husk

-some oil, I use olive oil
-50g yeast

First you need to warm your soy milk and water, and then when it is about 37 Celsius you need to crumble the yeast into it, after the yeast has dissolved add your psyllium husk into it and leave it to sit for about 10 minutes. Then add your salt, flour and start kneading the dough; it should be some what moist, not hard. After that leave it to rise for about 30-60 min. Then you will need to knead it again for a small while, after that you can roll your bread into breakfast rolls, then it needs to rise again for 30 min.

You should bake the bread at 170 Celsius for about an hour, it depends on the oven.

I also like to brush my bread with soy milk before baking it; sometimes I add some grated carrots into the dough or some sunflower seeds, things like that.

In that picture it has just been left to rise for the second time before baking, I didn’t take any after pictures because I was so hungry and we ate all of them after we took them from the oven, but I will someday.


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