Gluten free and dairy free recipies

[carenna]

Hi everyone I've just joined this group and would like to know, if you know of a chef who teaches cooking lessons on my title above. I need to learn to cook with all the ingredients I read in my book. I should now be eating vegetarian food but I still have the intolerance issues above to deal with. Help!!!!😊

[Activity2004 Administrator]

Please check out the Gluten Free Guerrillas group on HU for the recipes.

Welcome to the Healthy Eating group!

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Hi Carenna, basically you have to substitute butter for a dairy free spread that's suitable for baking, like Pure spread and if you're baking cakes with gluten free flour then egg whites replicate gluten really well. Its when you bake bread with gluten free flour that you need to add a binder like xanthan gum, pshyllium husk or guar gum.

Most gluten free flour mixes contain tapioca starch and that's because it starts to cook at a lower temp [62C] than rice flour [71C] wheat starts to cook at 48C. Hence a mix of gf flours for best results.

You can also make amazing pastry by using half gf flour mix and mashed potato. The potato has to be cooked and mashed and left in the fridge overnight to improve its elastic qualities.

So I'd experiment by making gf lacto free versions of your favourite foods and use a shop bought gf flour mix. Doves farm plain flour makes amazing shortbread in my opinion.

And good luck, I bake all my own gf bread, cakes and biscuits and like making bread the most 👨‍🍳

[andyswarbs]

I can recommend Chef AJ. Whilst not promoting GF, little of what she cooks has wheat in it since it is mostly vegetables. youtube.com/user/therealchefaj