Help please - Vegan/gluten free recipes

LondonDreamer

Agree about the Doves Farm gluten free flour recommendation. I use it when I bake for a coeliac friend, it's incredibly good. On offer at Mr T at the moment as well. :beer:

lovelovinghorses

Thanks LondonDreamer, I have just added some more Doves Farm flour to my Tesco order x

Stoney_G

Hi Love!!

I am wheat, dairy, soy, sugar and caffeine free and I don't eat meat so essentially we have the same diet!! The book that Twinkle_star suggested is absolutely brilliant - I wouldn't be without it. One of the great things about that book as it gives you recipes to make up flour blends for pie cases, pizza bases, breads etc. I've found this so useful as that way I can take regular recipes that have flour and just use one of my flour blends. It also has recipes for staple foods such as quiche that you wouldn't be able to eat, but obviously it's everything free so you can.

I found I had to buy quite a lot of stuff upfront to get my store cupboard up to scratch, but now I have everything to hand - you may well have a good store cupboard and so only need to add flours etc.

Can you eat oat gluten at all? I know some people (myself included) can. If you can, then oats can often replace the flour in a recipe or to bulk a meal out as well. I also have porridge for breakfast or make granola with lots of nuts and dried fruit as you won't be able to eat many of the store bought cereals.

You can buy gluten free bread as well - I find the best shop bought one is the white not sliced Genius. The other ones tend to fall apart and are sliced quite thinly so they tend again to fall apart or burn in the toaster!

Xantham gum and baking powder are other things you will need for baking as they are rising agents - just make sure you buy the gluten free baking powder as the normal one you will find on the shelf isn't.

And I suppose just make sure you look at the labels of everything you buy as I have found wheat in the most unlikely of foods!!!

If you need any more info then feel free to PM if you want, I know how tough this is!!
xx