Banana Bread Recipe-Gluten Free

 Banana Bread

 

Prep time:15 minutes
Baking Time:50-55 minutes

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups of all purpose unbleached flour
2/3 cup white sugar
2 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 tablespoon salt
1 cup mashed bananas- 3 medium or 2 large ones
1/4 cup skim milk
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
3/4 cup stabilized ground flax seed
2 eggs

Preparations

• You will preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit
• Mix flour,sugar,baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.
• Mash the banana in a food processor or bowl.After this, add eggs,milk,oil and vanilla.Then mix well together
• Fold in chopped nuts and stabilized ground flax seed.
• Cover 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray.
• Pour the batter in a loaf pan.for 50-55 minutes bake until it turns brown or until a toothpick put in the center comes out clean.Allow it to coll in the pan on a rack for at least 10-15 minutes unmolding to cool completely on a rack.

Gluten-Free:Lemon Pickle

Lemon Pickle

 

This is actually an Indian condiment used in their delicacies.

Ingredients

Lemons-12 small or 6 large.Ensure it is thin skinned

Juice of 1 large or 2 small lemons
1/2 cup of salt
1/4 cup of red chili powder
1/2 cup of sugar
3 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teeaspoon fenugreek seed
1 teaspoon black mustard seed

1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder(do not use for gluten free recipes)

Preparation Methods

• Wash the lemons and dry them well so that there is no water on the lemons.Cut off the stalk and any odd bits around the lemons.
• Cut the lemons into small pieces of about 2cm and 3/4 inch on each side.Put them in a bowl.
• Roast the fenugreek,black mustard dry on a pan of medium heat of about 5 minutes
• Grind the roasted spices in a grinder,mortar and pestle
• The ground spices,turmeric powder,salt,sugar and chili powder add to a bowl and mix together well.
• Take all the mixture into a 2 liter jar or use a couple of smaller jars.Do allow to fill to the top.Let there be 1cm space.

Fermentation
Take the jar and place it where the heat of the sun will get to it.Take it indoor during evening and put it back out in the morning.Continue this for at least a month in summer and 2 months in winter.This is for the heat to ferment the pickle.

Notes

• You don't need to be particular about the amount of sugar because the heat will ferment.
• Do not add Asafoetida powder because it has wheat flour added. if you want it to be gluten-free you better not add it.

Gluten-Free Recipes:Breakfast Waffles

Breakfast Waffles

 

I want to take some time to let you understand what it is for a food to be gluten-free.

Gluten is a protein found in wheat.It is not just wheat alone but some other common grains contains gluten.

Gluten is responsible for the flexibility of flour when baking.It allows for the elasticity of cells that form bread and it keep the baked food from crumbling.

The common grains that has gluten are wheat,barley and rye.Some people say oats could be contaminated with wheat flour and it a suspect when it comes to gluten.Also,ingredients that are commonly used in processed  foods like modified starch can be made from wheat and they do contain gluten.

Gluten can be found in foods that many not require wheat or other gluten carrier but in the production of these foods their conveyor belt might be dusted with flour to prevent it from sticking and thus they become contaminated with gluten.

Gluten free diet is a must for people having gluten sensitivity,intolerance and auto-immune disease like Celiac disease..It is also necessary that people having allergy to wheat,barley and rye do take gluten free diet.

There are over 190 disease that are lined to gluten sensitivity and gluten intolerance,Celiac tops them all.There is no diagnosis for Celiac yet that why is advisable for such people with this disease to avoid gluten food or diet.Gluten free diet is also good for children suffering for autism.

Alternatives to Gluten products are:

Chai, flaxseed,amaranth flour,cornstarch,millet flour,potato starch,potato flour rice flour and the likes.

Preparing this waffles is making is gluten free.That is,you will not use wheat flour but wheat free baking mix.

Time:15 minutes

Ingredients

3 eggs,separated
1 3/4 cups (420ml) milk
1/2lb 9225g) wheat free baking mix
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup(2oz) vegetable oil

Preparation Methods

• Mix the eggs yolk and milk together
• Then add the wheat free baking mix,baking powder,sugar,salt and mix  them well.
• Add the oil
• Beat the egg whites till it is stiff and then fold into the batter.

Note

The batter is the final thing to add to the breakfast.They are made fluffy by beating the egg whites separately and then folding then as said in the preparation.

Ensure that the amount of mil used is suited to "Bob Red Mill Wheat Free Biscuits and Baking Mix.

The baking mix is a mixture of non wheat flours and some gluten-free binders.See that the baking mix you use is actually gluten free not just wheat free.Bear in mind that you adjust the amount of milk to get the right consistency.