I bought tapioca flour, arrowroot flour and all other kinds of things I had never heard of.
Also can't get the Expandex so
I bought tapioca starch used for thickening sauces.
I've heard from others that if
you buy tapioca flour from an Asian grocery store it's not the same — so I want to make sure you're using a quality brand.
Not exact matches
Erin - Have to agree with you on the
tapioca starch, especially Bob's Red Mills, but I have found that the
tapioca starch I
buy at the Asian store doesn't have the funky taste that often stands out in baked goods.
Do I have to take the
tapioca flour back and
buy the starch?
Thanks Catherine
Tapioca is easier to find in stores here too but I tend to order a lot of ingredients online and the place I
buy my nuts / seeds, beans and grains has a good selection of baking stuff too.
Since my 3 1/2 year - old daughter was diagnosed with Celiac a week ago I've never
bought so many different types of flours: Brown Rice Flour, Sweet White Rice Flour,
Tapioca Flour, Potato Flour, Coconut Flour, Oat Flour, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum etc. and it is so overwhelming and I» ve also
bought the various pre-mixed flours, Pamela's baking mix, Namaste Flour mix, King Arthur Gluten Free Flour mix etc..
I remember when if you wanted a gluten free pizza you had to
buy a farm, grow the corn, rice,
tapioca and potatoes, hope for rain and sun, pray that locusts would ravage elsewhere, harvest the crops, build a mill, mill the flour and only then you could make the pizza base.
Where we live, often the bigger grocery stores will carry rice,
tapioca and potato starch flours in the Ethnic Aisles — much cheaper than
buying in a health food store.
I usually
buy Bob's Red Mill
Tapioca Flour: http://amzn.to/2DTkMek and it works beautifully!
* You can use a store -
bought mix, but I usually use 1 1/2 cup rice flour, 1/2 cup potato starch, 1/2 cup
tapioca starch, and 1/2 cup chickpea flour — and have great success with this combination.
I
bought a box of quick cooking
tapioca and checked out the recipe on the box.
Expandex modified
tapioca starch (I
buy it from Montana's Gifts of Nature — full information on my Gluten Free Resources page)
Can I sub
tapioca starch or coconut flour for the
tapioca flour??? I didn't realize I forgot to
buy that 1 ingredient!!!
There's one in my neighborhood too Regarding
tapioca flour, you can
buy it at most dieteticas (ask for «harina de mandioca»).
I think for that it is cheaper to
buy it already ground, because I don't have a source cheap enough to warrant grinding from the whole
tapioca.
The way nondairy yogurt can be thickened (without the guar gum,
tapioca starch, etc. used in store -
bought nondairy yogurts) is to use powdered pectin (if you can tolerate it), pureed young coconut meat, agar agar, or other natural thickeners until it is as thick as you want it to be.
(I went for the thick and chewy version because A. I didn't have
tapioca flour on hand and I'm trying to curb my instinct to run out and
buy stuff I'll probably not have much use for) and 2.
I
bought Arrow Root vs
Tapioca.
I
bought a small amount of
tapioca flour from a store that sells everything in bulk bins - so unfortunately I don't know what brand it was.
The advantage to
buying the flours separately for certain recipes is that it allows you full control over how much of each you want to use — be it coconut flour, almond, chickpea flour,
tapioca, etc. so you can achieve different results with different mixes.
Although I'm sure that you can find
tapioca flour locally, maybe in speciality stores, I chose to
buy mine online.
NOTE: the rice flour,
tapioca flour, cornflour, baking powder and baking soda can be replaced by 185g of a store
bought, self - raising gluten free flour mix.
4 cups unsweetened, full - fat coconut milk 3 Tablespoons
tapioca starch or potato starch 3/4 teaspoon agar - agar powder OR 2 tablespoons agar flakes 1/2 cup unflavored store -
bought or previously made coconut yogurt 1 Tablespoon agave nectar (optional)
It's a riff on Brazilian cheese bread that is just as good as the crazy - expensive Against The Grain
tapioca rolls that you can
buy frozen in the grocery store.
I used the ratio from GF Gobsmacked, but by measuring cup, not by weight... Used what I had in the house, so I used 1 cup of Celemix Rice Bread Mix (I
buy it in Canada when I go up - since there was no starch in it, I added 1/4 c of
Tapioca Starch to the dry) 1 1/4 cup of Vanilla Almond Milk, 2 eggs and 1/4 cup canola oil.
Hazelnut Coffee Pancakes (from Primal Cravings seriously,
buy this) 1/2 cup each
tapioca flour and coconut flour 1 teaspoon each baking soda and baking powder 1/4 cup hazelnuts, skinned and finely chopped (mine had skin and the texture was fine) 1/4 teaspoon coffee extract (I don't have this) 1 cup brewed coffee, cooled (I used day old coffee, can use decaf, don't use instant) 4 eggs Butter for pan Pure maple syrup for serving
-LSB-...] Coffee Pancakes (from Primal Cravings seriously,
buy this) 1/2 cup each
tapioca flour and coconut flour 1 teaspoon each baking soda and -LSB-...]
I've just made these muffins as I wanted to use the
tapioca flour I just
bought.
How can we know if the
tapioca we
buy at the store has been processed correctly to remove this dangerous compound?
I
buy the arrowroot starch,
tapioca starch, and coconut flour locally, the Bob's Red Mill brand, but if you can't find it at your local grocery store, or even a health food store, you can find it on Amazon (affiliate links are above).