Cover up the bean?

[sunatrya]

Anyone have any suggestions for recipes that cover up the beany after taste of Bob's Red Mill flour?

I was only diagnosed about a week ago and someone did me a "favor" and bought me a LOT of flour. It is a little strong for me.

Help?

Comments

[melody_rossiter]

Ugh. Cocoa powder. I find that, especially in GF cakes and cookies, that it needs to be chocolate to cover the flavor.

I personally hate bean flower, and I avoid it. Also, it will go rancid, so make sure that you package and freeze the stuff you wont be using quickly.

You can try mixing it with other flours, such as almond meal (trader joes has this cheap) brown and/or white rice flour and potato flour. Be careful with tapioca starch, as it can turn a good recipe into a pile of goo.

Good luck!

[cataphoric]

Seconding mixing it with other flour mixes - I reeeeally like using 2/3 Bob's all purpose and a 1/3 sorghum-sweetrice-tapioca-potato mix (in equal parts of the four). The garfava mix in the all purpose makes baked goods stay moister longer, I think.

I also like using Bob's all purpose straight up in baked goods with lots of strong flavors, like carrot cake.

[cataphoric]

(Also, if you haven't figured this out yet, NEVER taste the batter when you're cooking with the all purpose - the beany taste is much more noticeable before it's cooked!)

[evalerie]

I've also read that it's not good to eat raw bean flour because uncooked beans can badly upset a person's stomach. I've never personally had this problem, but it doesn't sound fun.

[fourgates]

It should go well with Pamela's brownie mix, which is always way too gooey out of the bag but perfect when diluted, IMO.

[lysystrata]

I have a great pizza crust recipe that takes chickpea flour (noticibly beany smelling prior to cooking) but is perfectly pizza-rific afterwards. I'll dig it out for you id you wish. :)

[lnearth]

Please share your pizza crust recipe. Thank you thank you!

[lysystrata]

I've also remembered I make killer banana muffins with chickpea flour. I blend 2 parts chickpea flour with 1 part coconut flour and 1 part almond meal. It turns out denser than conventional muffins but still knocks the socks off of people who eat conventional foods. As for the pizza crust, it's really easy, but it's a twice-baked thing. You make a runny batter, par-bake it, top it, and then finish baking. still, it's tasty and impregnated with yummy Italian herbs. Enjoy!

1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup chickpea flour
1-2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp+ Italian seasoning or oregano
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup oil or melted butter

Preheat oven 400*.
Mix dry ingredients. Mix wet ingredients, add to dry and mix well. Pour onto greased pan and spread evenly (dough will be batter-like, not doughy). Bake 10 min. Remobe crust from oven, top & return to oven for 10-15 minutes. Enjoy thin crust pizza that won't make you ill! :)

[lysystrata]

Thanks so much. Anything with a banana in it or cheese on top and I'm there. So guess what I'll be doing this weekend....:-)

[evalerie]

As far as I can tell, it's genetic whether bean flour tastes okay to you or not. Nobody in my family can taste it at all, so I don't worry about using it when I am baking things for my own family. But I worry about baking things with bean flour for non-family people, since some of them do have the genetics to taste (and object to!) the bean flour. So my usual flour mix when I'm baking for non-family people is to replace each cup of flour with: 2/3 cup brown rice flour, 1/3 cup potato starch and 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum. That seems to work well in pretty much any recipe, and it doesn't have the beany taste that some people object to.

That doesn't help you to use up your big batch of Bob's flour, though. For that I think I'd either give it away to someone who can't taste it, or use it in small quantities mixed in with other flour that you like better.

[achanchinou]

Don't use it. I don't know why but I can't STAND the taste of most bobs red mill stuff, especially if it has any of the bean flours in it. I go for something else every time. The only thing of theirs I use is the pancake mix - it's great - everything else.. ug. I'll pass.