This nightshade free gluten free flour mix has become my go-to flour for gluten free baking. It works wonderfully in cakes, muffins, and quick breads.
Nightshade Free Gluten Free Flour Mix
This nightshade free gluten free flour mix is a blend of flours that I have been working with for many months now. Over the summer, I discovered that potatoes and I are not really very good friends. In fact, they pretty much hate me. Since potato starch was one of the main flours I was using in my flour mixes, I had to make a switch.
However, potato starch is in almost every (if not all) ready-made gluten free flour mixes on store shelves. Bad news for me but luckily, I have a bit of experience with gluten free flours so I wasn’t too upset. I had to make my own blend, but whatevs. No biggie.
Also, in case you’re highly confused about why I’m posting a potato recipe (hello, homemade tater tots!) in a few days, I can eat a few tiny bites before all hell breaks loose. I just can saturate my life with potatoes, unfortunately. And when potato starch is in basically EVERYTHING, it was happening on an almost daily basis. Oops.
Anyways. I’ve also gotten a few emails from some of you lovely peeps who stick around and read my ramblings. Actually, I’ve gotten quite a few questions from people wanting to know what to use in place of the potato starch in my White Rice Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour Mix.
My answer: Arrowroot (flour/starch). Basically, I took out the potato starch and subbed in Arrowroot 1:1. Cakes, cupcakes, muffins, and quick breads come out wonderfully with this nightshade free gluten free flour mix. It’s also great for coating meat before browning and for thickening gravies. However, when baking, just watch the amount of xanthan gum you’re using. My recipes take into account the amount of xanthan gum needed for my mix. The arrowroot has a gummier quality to it so you don’t need as much xanthan gum to bind the flours together.
I’m still experimenting with some foods like pancakes with this mix so if you do try this flour in pancakes, you’ll need to drastically reduce the amount of xanthan gum you use, if not eliminate it entirely. But, for you fine folks that need to avoid nightshades, this is a great flour blend.
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Nightshade Free Gluten Free Flour Mix
This nightshade free gluten free flour mix has become my go-to flour for gluten free baking. It works wonderfully in cakes, muffins, and quick breads.
Ingredients
- 1 C white rice flour
- 1 C brown rice flour
- 2/3 C arrowroot starch
- 1/3 C tapioca starch
Instructions
- Add all flours to a bowl and whisk together until combined. Store the flour mix in an airtight container at room temperature.
- Recipe can be doubled or tripled.
Antonia
Sunday 28th of May 2023
It's awesome that you've created a nightshade free flour blend. I was just wondering if you've made a g/f flour blend without rice. My daughter can't have wheat, dairy, egg, soy, nuts, potato, rice, peas, beans. It would change everything for her. Worth a try to ask..
sue
Friday 20th of January 2023
Thank You so much for developing this ! I am allergic to potatoes and peppers (nightshade family) cause my hands and other joints ache !
and ALL the other GF mixes seem to have potato starch in them.
I do miss my smoked paprika.
Aimee
Wednesday 14th of December 2022
Hi Shay,
I am looking to make nightshade-free sugar cookies and was going to use this flour recipe! I was wondering if you had any recommendations about how much xanthan gum to use if you were to make a cookie dough (I know you said arrowroot was also gummy).
Thanks!
Shay
Friday 16th of December 2022
Hi Aimee! I've used this flour before for my sugar cookie recipe: https://www.whattheforkfoodblog.com/2015/11/27/gluten-free-soft-frosted-sugar-cookies/
I believe I added 1 teaspoon xanthan gum but I'll have to retest it because it's been a while! The gumminess from Arrowroot is more with wetter batters (like pancakes, etc) and with batter that contains a higher amount of acid, like lemon juice or pineapple juice.
Melissa
Wednesday 30th of November 2022
I love this recipe! Bobs red mill paleo flour is pretty cool too. No potato starch. Nobody understands food sensitivities until they have them. Complete life changer!
Shay
Thursday 1st of December 2022
Thanks Melissa!
Ginny
Thursday 20th of October 2022
Hi It was my daughter that found your recipes I do the baking. I am struggling with the cup measurements. When you look at conversion charts they are not all the same and I work in grams and ounces.