DIY Gluten-Free Flour Blend (2024)

FAQs

What can I use instead of gluten free flour blend? ›

Gluten-free flours are made by grinding gluten-free grains, seeds, nuts, and other ingredients into a fine powder. We've listed them below, but you may already have a few favorites, like cornmeal for cornbread, buckwheat for pancakes, and almond flour for desserts.

You can custom design your own flour blend to fit your own tastes and allergies. If you run out of gluten free flour blend, no problem! You can grind your own at home and not have to go anywhere or wait for the mailman. Talk about convenience!

Brown rice flour is about as close to a 1:1 substitute for all-purpose flour as it gets since it provides structure and a “wheat-like” flavor.

Use xanthan gum or guar gum: Gluten-free flours lack the elasticity and structure that gluten provides, so adding a binder like xanthan or guar gum can help to hold the ingredients together and give your baked goods a better texture.

Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour

(For more on xanthan gum and its role in gluten-free baking, see our guide to xanthan gum.) Why it's great: Made from a blend of white rice flour, whole grain brown rice flours, tapioca starch, and potato starch, this flour yields baked goods with no grittiness or aftertaste.

A gluten free flour mix is exactly what it says… a blend of a few (or many) individual gluten free flours, carefully selected for the unique properties they bring, which when used together in a recipe, will work as needed for the bake to be successful.

Best Overall: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour

This mix, which has all recognizable ingredients (including sweet white rice flour, which is the main ingredient in mochi, a nice light, powdery, starchy flour that doubles as a binder), worked well in all three of our tests.

If you'd like to turn your favorite bread recipe into a gluten free one, look no further than Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour. A great substitute for traditional bread flour, it is designed to be used in nearly every wheat flour recipe.

Making your own gluten-free flour may seem like an investment, and it may take some work to collect all the ingredients you'll need, but gram for gram, our homemade flour blends are less expensive than the gluten-free flours sold in stores.

What makes gluten-free flour grainy? ›

Gluten-free baked goods have earned the reputation of being dry and gritty. That grit—that evil grit! —is the result of gluten-free flours that are often high in starches and rice flour, which take longer to absorb moisture than regular “gluten” flour.

If the original recipe calls for 260 grams of all-purpose flour, substitute with 260 grams of your blend. Beat the batter more. Because gluten-free flours provide less structure than all-purpose, the batter or dough you make with them may require more beating than that which you are accustomed.

Tapioca flour: ideal as thickener or for healthy baking.

Yes, pure, uncontaminated oats are gluten-free. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration considers oats a gluten-free grain under its gluten-free labeling regulations and only requires that packaged products with oats as an ingredient contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten overall.

What's the best gluten-free flour for baking? Bob's Red Mill gluten-free 1-to-1 baking mix is my favorite gluten-free all-purpose flour blend for baking. It has a mild texture and plenty of "stick" thanks to a blend of sweet rice flour, brown rice flour, and sorghum flour, plus some starches and xanthan gum.

Gluten-Free Bread Flour can be swapped 1:1 for all-purpose flour and bread flour by both weight and volume.

This can be tricky because gluten free flours react differently in pretty much every recipe. But in general, use in place of all purpose or whole wheat flour in a 1:1 ratio. For extra binding (since there is no gluten) you can add a pinch of xanthan gum depending on the recipe, but I don't find it necessary.

For most purposes that don't rely on gluten development for structure, GF flour is just as good as plain flour (all purpose) and can be substituted one-to-one in recipes. It isn't really good for baking bread, since good bread relies on gluten for structure to support its rise and for the chewy texture of the crumb.

Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour has a base of Sweet White Rice Flour, Brown Rice Flour, and Potato Starch. The mild rice flavor is a neutral and complementary base for most sweet recipes. It also has the Sorghum and Tapioca Flour added along with the addition of Xanthan Gum.