If you choose not to weigh your ingredients I recommend using about 3/4 cup plus 1
tablespoon of cassava flour in place of 1 cup of wheat flour when converting recipes.
As far as the flour goes, I can only recommend one
brand of cassava flour by Otto's Naturals, because it's the only brand that I personally use.
If you use the cassava ap flour blend instead of the almond ap flour blend in one of my recipes, you should decrease the amount of flour by 20 %, and if you use the almond flour
instead of the cassava flour blend in one of my recipes, you should increase the amount of flour by 20 %.
In testing
lots of cassava flour recipes lately, I've learned that it can be a difficult flour to bake with, and not so forgiving the way almond flour seems to be!
As far as the flour goes, I can only recommend one brand
of cassava flour by Otto's Naturals, because it's the only brand that I personally use.
I have never
heard of cassava flour before — but they seem to be making flour from everything but wheat these days.
I really really love the
texture of cassava flour and it always lends a super crispy waffle on the outside that is just asking to be drenched in butter and maple syrup.
Up until recently, it wasn't affordable for a Canadian to get their hands on the gold -
standard of cassava flour, Otto's Naturals, but now its possible from Flour Confections online and the price is on - par with blanched almond flour.
It sounds like the working
properties of cassava flour are more like that of instant corn masa flour than wheat flour, that is it is lacking in plasticity as a dough.
You can still make classic roux - based New Orleans dishes like Shrimp Creole even when following a Paleo diet thanks to the
magic of cassava flour.
It was here at Oka's that I first
learned of cassava flour (after speaking with the owner), which then led me on a recipe - creation - bender when I returned home.
Dust a piece of parchment paper with additional cassava flour, place 1 dough ball on top, add an additional
dusting of cassava flour and place another piece of parchment on top.
I didn't have tahini so I used natural pb, I don't do well with chia so I used 1 gelatin egg (paleo) and I put in
1tbsp of cassava flour to thicken up the batter just a bit, I also didn't have cashews so thats prob why my batter needed to be thickened.
Our high - protein baking blend is
made of cassava flour, cricket flour, coconut flour, tapioca starch, and xanthan gum.
Edit November 2017: feedback from readers (and personal experimentation) has shown that different brands
of cassava flour yields different results and can leave this loaf a little dry.
I have heard from other bloggers that other brands
of cassava flour do not behave the same in baking, so I definitely recommend making this recipe with Otto's Cassava Flour.
I've touted the
benefits of cassava flour numerous times before in my recipe for cassava flour tortillas and my post 5 Things You Need to Know About Cassava Flour.
My latest eBook is «Sweet Baking with Cassava Flour» a free introduction to the
world of Cassava Flour, featuring 20 easy to follow recipies.
These look really good and I'll have to get this
type of cassava flour to try them as I only have tapioca and it might be a bit too fine in texture.
Alternatively, you can try reducing the
amount of cassava flour by 10 - 20 % (which means reducing the amount used by about 1.5 to 3 TBSP per cup).
With the
exception of cassava flour, olive oil, honey, and a few incredibly specialized and time - consuming products, everything is made in house.
If you haven't heard
of cassava flour yet, or have but you're not really sure what it is, you definitely need to try it out.
To prove its importance, each Congolese consumes an average of 453 kilograms of fresh cassava per year, the equivalent of 145
kilograms of cassava flour.
So if you use a different variety of pear like a Bosc or Anjous that aren't quite as juicy, you may only need 4
tablespoons of cassava flour instead of 5.
I really really love the
texture of cassava flour and it always lends a super crispy waffle on the outside that is just asking to be drenched in butter and maple syrup.