Unusual And Tasty Fava Flour Recipes

By Paul Thompson


Fava beans are used for making gluten-free flour, and it is really interesting, because it makes your recipes somehow meatier and tastier, and, at the same time, full of fibers and much healthier. It can be used for making pizzas or tasty breads, but also for making interesting sweets you might find unusually filling. So, discover some of these new fava flour recipes.

It is often mixed with garbanzo beans, and can also replace rice starch in various recipes. It is recommendable to keep it in the freezer. It is rich in fiber and gluten free, but requires a little more baking powder than you would use in your traditional recipes. It can also replace only a part of similar ingredients you would normally use, and you will get healthier and really tasty foods.

This simple and easy to make cake is a good place to start experimenting with this new ingredient. Take a few apples, one cup of fava flour, and the same amount of walnuts and sugar, you will also need one half of a cup of oil, a little spoon of vanilla sugar and cinnamon, baking powder and three eggs. Apples should be sliced, and you can use more apples if you like.

The first thing you should do is to switch on the oven, on 180 degrees of Celsius. Take a non-stick pan and spread the apples mixed with one spoon of sugar and cinnamon on the pan. Bake it for maybe fifteen minutes. Mix egg whites with the rest of sugar, add yolks, vanilla and oil and continue mixing. Add all dry ingredients, mix it all together and spread over baked apples. Put it back into oven for another fifteen minutes.

When baked, the cake should be turned upside down. Maybe you would have to correct the surface. It's nice to decorate it with some whipped cream or some other topping of your choice. Lactose intolerant people could use non-dairy whipping. When it comes to sweetness, the amount of sugar depends on your personal taste. This particular cake is not very sweet, but it's easy to change it.

Fava and almond cookies are also really easy to make. You will need one egg, one cup fava flour, the same quantity of ground almonds, sugar and butter each, one tsp baking powder and cinnamon and a pinch of cardamom. Mix together egg, sugar and butter and add dry ingredients. Bake on the non-stick pan for fifteen to twenty minutes on 180 degrees of Celsius.

Here is another interesting recipe known as Poppy muffins with raisins and dark chocolate. So, you will need three eggs, one cup of following ingredients: fava flour, ground poppy seeds, sugar, vegetable oil, and a small spoon of baking powder, vanilla and cinnamon. At the end, you will need half cup each dark chocolate chips and raisins.

Combine eggs with sugar, vegetable oil and spices, add other ingredients and finish with dark chocolate and raisins. You will need some muffin molds and preheated oven on 180 degrees of Celsius. The muffins should be bake in about fifteen minutes. Once done, they can be decorated with dark chocolate or your favorite icing.




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