Make your favourite dishes Gluten free with Oats Flour!


Oat Flour

Over the years, Oat flour has gained  quite the  popularity in gluten-free cooking. A healthy substitute for all-purpose flour, Oats flour is  easy to make even at home. With its plethora of uses, you can add oat flour to multiple recipes including pancakes, waffles, muffins, idlis, dosas and more.


Packed with a ton of benefits Oats flour is a whole-grain food, which means they pack vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fibre and are also a great source of protein.

 

Oats also help with your statiation. Since they are fibre & protein-packed, they help keep you feeling satisfied for longer. That means with recipes using oat flour rather than refined white flour,  your blood sugar levels are less likely to shoot up. Which means say goodbye to those 3 pm late hunger pangs.


Apart from its health benefits, Oat flour is extremely versatile in nature. Oat flour can be used in tons of baking recipes as well as savoury dishes as it provides the right texture while holding the recipe together.


How to Make Oat Flour

To make oat flour, you can use old-fashioned rolled oats, quick-cooking oats or even steel-cut oats. Given that steel-cut oats are more dense, they require more blending time and give twice as much flour per cup. Making Oat flour is extremely simple and hassle free. Just pour oats into your blender or food processor. Blend until the oats have turned into a fine flour and voila! 

What can you do with oat flour?


With the amazing Oat flour that your just prepared, it’s now time to make some yummy recipes! 


Oats Flour recipes


Muffins


Ingredients:

2 bananas, mashed

2 eggs

1/4 cup creamy peanut butter 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/3 cup gluten-free oat flour

1/4 cup coconut sugar

1/3 cup cacao powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup dark chocolate 


Instructions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease the muffin tin with butter.

  2. In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients together  until creamy. 

  3. Then add in the dry ingredients until you get a  smooth consistency.

  4. Fold in dark chocolate chips then add batter to muffin tin and bake for about 20-25 minutes (or until fully cooked!)



Oats Dosa


Ingredients:

Finely crushed oats powder

Rice flour

Semolina

Water

Finely chopped coconut

Salt

Chopped green chillies

Cashew pieces

Oil

Cumin seeds and curd (optional)


Instructions: 

  1. Mix all the dry ingredients together and then slowly add water and curd to form a thin batter with no lumps.

  2. Heat the pan and add some oil at the bottom. 

  3. Pour the batter with a ladle. The batter must not be too thick or your dosas won't be crisp or too thin as they won't form the perfectly round shape. 

  4. Cook them till they are perfectly golden brown and enjoy them with chutney and sambar.


Pancakes 


Ingredients:

1 cup gluten-free oat flour 

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 cup milk

2 tablespoons coconut oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract



Instructions:

  1. Heat a large pan with coconut oil or butter and stay on medium/low heat

  2. In a large bowl add all the pancake ingredients together and mix well until there are no lumps.

  3. Let the batter sit for a couple of minutes to thicken then and the batter to the pan. 

  4. Cook for about 3 minutes on each side or until ready to flip.

  5. Serve with some maple syrup or honey and fresh berries.

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