All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour Substitute Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How do I substitute gluten-free flour for all purpose? ›

Simply total up the amount of flour called for in the recipe and use that amount of the all purpose gluten free flour instead.

Gluten-free flours often contain fine starches, so they absorb more liquid than conventional flour. To address this, gluten-free recipes usually call for more liquid and produce looser batters. They may also call for a larger quantity of leavening, like baking powder, to help add volume and lighten the texture.

Rice Flour, Potato Starch, Pea Fiber, Tapioca Starch, Xanthan Gum.

Xanthan Gum adds thickness and viscosity to gluten-free breads and other baked goods. Without xanthan gum, your gluten-free baked goods would be dry, crumbly and flat. Because xanthan gum is gluten-free and vegan, it's the preferred thickener for those home bakers with food allergies.

For flours that are made from grains (amaranth, buckwheat, corn, millet, quinoa, rice flours, sorghum, and teff), always buy them labeled gluten-free, since many are grown, harvested and processed in facilities that also manufacture wheat, barley, or rye and cross-contact can occur.

2 teaspoons of baking powder per cup of gluten-free flour is necessary to ensure proper leavening. Baking soda and buttermilk can be used to leaven instead of baking powder, but 1-1/8 teaspoon of cream of tartar should be added for each 1/2 teaspoon baking soda used.

Best Overall: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour

This mix, which has all recognizable ingredients (including sweet white rice flour, which is the main ingredient in mochi, a nice light, powdery, starchy flour that doubles as a binder), worked well in all three of our tests.

You can replace regular wheat flour with the Gluten Free All Purpose Flour 1:1, with the addition of Xanthan Gum for best results.

If making gluten-free self-raising flour, add the baking powder and xanthan gum, then thoroughly mix in. Store in an airtight container (a funnel helps to ensure it all goes in easily if using a large jar) and ideally label it so you can tell it apart from other flour! Store in a dry, cool place for up to 6-8 months.

Gluten-free flours are made by grinding gluten-free grains, seeds, nuts, and other ingredients into a fine powder. We've listed them below, but you may already have a few favorites, like cornmeal for cornbread, buckwheat for pancakes, and almond flour for desserts.

Is it cheaper to make your own gluten-free flour? ›

Making your own gluten-free flour may seem like an investment, and it may take some work to collect all the ingredients you'll need, but gram for gram, our homemade flour blends are less expensive than the gluten-free flours sold in stores.

Why it's great: Made from a blend of white rice flour, whole grain brown rice flours, tapioca starch, and potato starch, this flour yields baked goods with no grittiness or aftertaste. How to bake with it: Use in any recipe that calls specifically for gluten-free flour.

So, when you try to replace xanthan gum with cornstarch in gluten free baking, you're basically removing the binder and adding a starchy flour – making your gluten free bake both drier and crumblier. (And that's definitely not something you want to do.)

Nausea, vomiting, appendicitis, hard stools that are difficult to expel (fecal impaction), narrowing or blockage of the intestine, or undiagnosed stomach pain: Do not use xanthan gum if you have any of these conditions. It is a bulk-forming laxative that could be harmful in these situations.

Just replace your xanthan gum with the same amount of corn starch. Corn starch is an excellent thickener and is very popular, especially in stews and sauces. Replace 1: 1 corn starch with xanthan gum.

It is often said that gluten-free yeast dough should only be allowed to rise once. This is what I also believed for a long time, but it is not true. There are enough recipes in which the dough is successfully risen twice. I could go on and on for hours about gluten-free yeast dough.

Adding more liquid than stated in the recipe may be necessary in order to rehydrate gluten-free flour. Add the liquid a tablespoon at a time until the mixture reaches dropping consistency. Baking the cake for an extra 5–10 minutes may be necessary, due to the extra liquid content.

Baking with gluten-free flour will produce some slight differences in taste or texture. Millet flour tends to have a mild flavor while buckwheat flour lends itself to a more earthy taste. In addition, quinoa flour has a nutty flavor and bean flour can actually sometimes taste like beans.