A Guide for Foodies with Celiac Disease
There will be difficulty but it's still manageable.
Probably the only drawback of using alternative flours for baking is that usually they are difficult to manage. While there are different types of multipurpose flours you can use, alternative flours usually require to be mixed with other ingredients to modify their common texture and flavor. Eggs and xanthan gum are some extra ingredients you can use to give your food more texture.
To start experimenting, you need patience and curiosity. What kind of chemical reactions these gluten-free flours can give? Although it takes some time to master the use of different flours for baking your own loaves, it provides a great number of benefits that make all the effort worth it:
- Being able to monitor and ensure your food does not contain gluten or that some ingredients have been cross-contaminated.
- Saving some money on gluten-free products, which are very expensive and usually twice as much as common products.
- Being able to vary from time to time with recipes and not always having the same boring diet due to being strictly gluten-free.