Jamie Oliver, What is Semolina Flour?

Seakay

potato flour is more like cornflour in it's uses than semolina is. Potato flour is a thickener - a bit less firm a set to things than cornflour.

GetRealBabe

Hi

I've used semolina in pizza dough recipes, usually coarse from Asda or Waitrose essentials which is cheaper.

lisa26_2

I love Jamie Oliver's pizza base recipe. I don't have semolina flour but I do have a huuuge bag of fine polenta. I use that instead and they are YUMMY!!!

red0209

Can anyone get semolina flour anywhere?

I've looked in Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury's, in the speciality foods sections, the flour/baking sections and the puddings and cakes sections. I've asked if they sell it and all I got was blank looks.

Anyone had any success? Obviously you can easily order online, but then you're paying at least £4 delivery for a £1.70 bag of flour.

rosieben

is this not just (dried) semolina rather than semolina flour? I use semolina in my shortbread, Sainsbury sell it, online its with the rice and pasta

Badrick

Would coarse semolina go to flour in a food processor/liquidiser? or is it too hard for that, you could put it through a sieve afterwards.

Need2bthrifty

purplegirluk1 wrote: »

I was given the lovely Jamie Oliver Italian cook book for Christmas and have made the pizza bases already, they were very yummy by the way. The recipe did ask for semoilna flour if you had it, now I did have semolina that you use to make the pudding but I wasn't sure if this was what he meant, it isn't called flour on the box. I had a good look in Tescos and didn't find any. I forgot to ask OH's family so over to my OS buddies, any ideas? I will try to type up the recipe soon!

I apologies if I'm repeating what others have said, but I thought that Semolina Flour was what is referred to as 00 flour predominantly used for Italian style pizza making. The semolina that you get for making puddings is too course and needs to be ground down further to get a finer powder. I tried making Gnocchi with "pudding" semolina and it was great, but the shortbread recipe I tried with it turned out far toooooo crunchy for my taste so thought I would invest in some of the 00 stuff

Melody_Lee

It seems they sell Semolina Flour on Amazon. Might be a bit costly with the delivery charge though. Hope this helps!

rosieben

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

I apologies if I'm repeating what others have said, but I thought that Semolina Flour was what is referred to as 00 flour predominantly used for Italian style pizza making. The semolina that you get for making puddings is too course and needs to be ground down further to get a finer powder. I tried making Gnocchi with "pudding" semolina and it was great, but the shortbread recipe I tried with it turned out far toooooo crunchy for my taste so thought I would invest in some of the 00 stuff

thanks for explaining that, I'd never heard of semolina flour so I'm still learning I love my crunchy shortbread!

Melody_Lee

I must admit that I was looking for semolina flour a couple of weeks ago. I could only find coarse semolina, but tried it in shortbread and it was lovely! It's also nice on roast potatoes, it makes them nice and crisp on the outside!