Love the blog, love the recipes, love the cookbook, and suddenly I seem to have become reactive to almond flour. It is not from overuse as I am careful to rotate ingredients when baking. I am also allergic to corn, but do use Italian Chesnut flour, rice flour, and potato flour - however, nothing compares to your almond flour recipes. Any suggestions?
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Alternatives to Almond flour
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Posted 2 years ago #
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I would suggest another nut flour such as pecan, walnut, hazelnut, brazil, macadamia. It will change the taste of the recipe as the nuts will add their own flavor so only make 1/4 or 1/2 the recipe until you see if you like it. You will have to experiment to see which flavor you like with which recipes. Just try to get the finest (as in smallest grind) ground flours you can. I've used both nuttyguys.com and nuts4u.com flours and they work well. I have used pecan butter (made myself)in the brownie recipe, and like it better. I also use pecan or hazelnut flour in cookies and pie crust recipes I've tweaked myself. Never used chestnut flour so can't advise you there. Mostly I experiment. Never be afraid to try. Have fun and good luck.
Donna
Posted 2 years ago # -
Have you tried coconut flour, fava bean flour, or tapioca flour? Pecan flour might be the closest to the almond flour. Can you eat pecans?
Posted 2 years ago # -
I had the same problems with almond flour. Teff flour has a great consistency. There's a recipe for pancakes at my blog: http://www.foodsensitivityjournal.com/blog.html
Posted 2 years ago # -
Thank you for these responses. I do okay generally with nuts, so I will try the nut flours. I am sometimes reactive to coconut but fava bean is okay and I use tapioca flour often. It's the proportions I'll need to experiment with because the almond flour worked so incredibly well.
I don't think Teff is a gluten free grain.
Again, thank you. Once I come up with a good proportion of substitutions, I'll post it!
Posted 1 year ago # -
Bob's Red Mill carries gluten free teff flour.
Posted 1 year ago # -
If you're allergic to nuts, you can substitute sunflower meal, or pumpkin seed meal, but they will change the flavor. I used raw sunflower seeds in this lemon almond cake recipe from Spain, and it was delicious. My friend who can't eat nuts loved it. (The meal doesn't need to be super fine for this recipe.)
If you want to try seed meals, it's easy to grind them in your food processor or even a coffee grinder. The problem though is that it's hard to get them fine enough for Elana's recipes. Read why this is important here.
Tips for grinding seed or nut meal:
- Don't just turn on the food processor, you need to pulse it. Too much processing will release the oils and it will turn to seed butter.
- Sift the meal and grind the larger particles until you have mostly small particles.
- If you don't want to do all that work here's another solution.
Tips for using seed meals:
- Use raw seeds, as they have a milder flavor.
- Try the seed meals, especially pumpkin seed meal, in strongly flavored recipes like recipes with chocolate, or lemon, or ginger.
Pat
Posted 1 year ago # -
Hi!! So sorry you're having dietary struggles. It's never any fun.
My thoughts:
Yes, teff is gluten-free...I buy mine from Bob's Red Mill and I love it!! It's once of my favorites to use, espeically with chocolate and heavier spiced recipes.
I use it this Chocolate Teff Cake: http://www.simplysugarandglutenfree.com/gluten-free-chocolate-teff-cake-with-mixed-berry-coulis/
And in many other recipes...not sure they'd all work for your diet.
About the bean flour - I also **love** Bob's Garbanzo-Fava blend. It doesn't taste beany once it's been baked.
Hugs!
Amy
Simply Sugar & Gluten-FreePosted 1 year ago # -
Hey!
I also can't have almond meal as it just doesn't agree with me. I get bloated, sore. I don't have celiac disease (though I haven't been tested. I have a lot of the same reactions to gluten though, so I just stay away from it), but I have Candida in my stomach & intestinal tract, so my list of food that I can eat is also very limited. Almonds & almond meal, even though it's an allowed food, causes painful reactions in me so I use alternatives. I use sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts, & brazil nuts. I make the flour at home myself & just experiment with the recipes.
I also use soy flour, which I know for some people is a no-no, & soy seems to be quite a controversial product. But most alternative flours are too high in carbohydrates, & this is the only flour I've found that doesn't leave me in pain. So I tend to mix it with the nut flour & that works well for me.
Posted 1 year ago #
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