More and more people are waking up to the benefits of using
buckwheat flour over wheat and gluten - containing flours, and coming to love its beautiful nutty, moist pseudo-grain goodness.
For people who are not sensitive to gluten, is there any benefit of
buckwheat flour over whole grain wheat flour, please?
Not exact matches
I had no
buckwheat flour, so I used
buckwheat groats (just
over half a cup), soaked for 15 minutes, rinsed and then made it into a
flour.
A lovely daring cook participant,
over at The Peaceable Kingdom pointed me in the direction of
buckwheat flour.
Instead, I tweaked the recipe
over time to include
buckwheat, garbanzo or garbanzo / fava
flour for extra protein without another topping, and aquafaba as an egg alternative.
The gluten free
flour is easy to change about, though I recommend not going
over a third of a cup of
buckwheat as it can become sour.
You don't have to use
buckwheat flour, but I prefer its nutty, earthy flavor
over most gluten free
flours.
I have experimented with the levels of
buckwheat flour - I find if you go
over a third of a cup they start to taste a little on the bitter side.
Looking for a fluffier pancake batter (we feel ya, we're
over here trying to make
buckwheat and almond
flour work too)?
You want to avoid
flours like chickpea,
buckwheat and soy
flour because they can be
over powering and too strongly flavored to allow the delicate yeast /
flour taste to come to the foreground.