Cooking with Oat Flour is Easy
Cooking with oat flour is a tasty alternative to cooking with wheat or refined flour. Plus, the nutritional value is greater. How does one cook with oat flour?First of all, you can save some money by making your own oat flour. Instead of buying it prepackaged and exorbitantly overpriced, spend a few minutes in your kitchen. Making your own flour is easier than you may think. It makes cooking with oat flour much more fun, also.
Oat Flour Recipe:
1) Simply take some whole oats (rolled or quick variety) and put them into a blender or food processor. A coffee bean grinder works remarkably well, also.
2) Grind until a floury consistency is reached.
3) That is all there is to making your own oat flour.
4) Store in airtight container such as a jar.
5) Label the jar with the grinding date.
Here are some recipe suggestions for cooking with oat flour:
1) As a meat coating:
a. Place oat flour and some spices in a pie pan. Mix together.
b. Beat some milk and egg together in another pie pan.
c. Dip chicken or meat in egg mixture.
d. Then, dip meat into oat flour.
e. Cover thoroughly.
f. Place onto lightly greased baking sheet.
g. Cook in 350 oven until meat is done.
Or, try this class-tested oat flour recipe that is popular with my students. It is a great way to introduce cooking with oat flour:
No Fry Fried Chicken (serves 4)
4 whole chicken breasts, no skin, no bone
½ cup yogurt, plain
1 t mustard
½ cup oats, rolled or quick
½ cup oat flour
½ t teach parsley, thyme, basil
§ Prepare baking sheet by lightly spritzing with oil or nonstick spray.
§ Soak chicken in ice water.
§ Remove and pat dry with paper towel.
§ In small bowl, mix yogurt and mustard together.
§ Pour yogurt mixture into pie pan (or flat pan.)
§ In separate flat pan, combine oats, flour, and spices together.
§ Dip chicken breasts into yogurt mixture. Coat thoroughly.
§ Then, dip chicken breasts into oat mixture.
§ Coat thoroughly.
§ Place chicken onto prepared baking sheet.
§ Bake in 400-degree oven for approximately 30 minutes.
See how easy cooking with oat flour is?
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- Make your own oat flour.
- Oat flour can be used as a meat coating.
- Oat flour has a nutty taste.
Comments
FYI
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(Guest)
07/19/2009
The following is something I found elsewhere on the net- the last part tells how to substitute at least partial oat flour for wheat flour in bread. Hope this helps.
Oat Flour - You can make it yourself by grinding rolled oats in a food processor or blender. Oat flour adds lovely flavor to breads and because of certain natural preservative in the oats themselves, it improves their shelf life. Oats contain no gluten, which is needed for bread to rise, so it must be mixed with a gluten-containing flour such as wheat. Substitute 1 of every 5 parts of wheat flour with oat flour. If your recipe is for a quick bread, no addition of other flours is necessary.
Flora
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(Guest)
01/07/2008
I'm a looking for the same thing, did you find a recipe?
Barbara -babu_nus@yahoo.com
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(Guest)
11/02/2007
I am a Weight Watcher, and on their Core program which limits breads. I'd like to try making oat flour(for oatmeal is allowed and encouraged for it's nutritious properties. Does anyone have an oat flour bread recipe-perhaps made with eggs or eggwhites, no fat or little fat--and applesauce for moistness?
Thank you.
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