A small
amount of potato starch on your hands also helps when forming the cookies as well as little on the wax paper when rolling out dough.
If you bake by weight, you can replace the potato starch in the recipe with the accurate amount of tapioca flour if you run
out of potato starch.
If mixture seems too moist to work with (the nugget is falling apart and not holing together), add a
bit of potato starch on tablespoon at a time until mixture will hold a nugget shape.
** Arrowroot or tapioca starch should work in
place of potato starch but the exterior will come out a little less crisp.
An environmentally friendly fork
made of potato starch is great, unless it bends when you try to spear food.
When I washed some myself (instead of pre-washed) such they were a little damp (though not evenly, since they have that moisture repellent property) I tried a
mix of potato starch, chipotle pepper and KCl and it was pretty good.
Pea starch granules are a third of the
size of potato starch granules and approximate the size of tapioca starch granules.
Films of potato starch products are observed to rate high in tensile strength, flexibility, solubility and gloss.
The low protein and fat / lipid
content of potato starch has a positive influence on taste, odor and color making it a flexible ingredient in many food products, providing good organoleptic properties.
The high water binding
capacity of potato starch, measured through its high viscosity, is very useful in snacks, meat and bakery products, powdered foods and whenever lower relative concentrations or dosage of starch is preferred.
It calls for about 2 and 1/2 cups or
so of potato starch in addition to the flour, but as you know potato starch doesn't have a very substantial feel and it just seem to go right down into the liquid.
:) You can use tapioca starch, but I recommend using (non-GMO) corn starch or trying to get your hands on a
bag of potato starch.
His latest research joins recent developments in this area that saw food scientists in Ireland last month announcing they had improved the quality of gluten - free bread through a
combination of potato starch and rice flour.
In each loaf, a proportion of the corn starch (10, 15, 20 and 50 per cent) was replaced by corn resistant starch, and the same
proportions of potato starch were replaced by tapioca resistant starch.
It was the most grain free item on the menu, and it was wonderful (I later found out it was breaded in some
type of potato starch and not flour!).
Pretty high RS right there, but add a
spoonful of potato starch and it's really high in RS without effecting taste, actually improving texture.