Wheat Fiber That Is Gluten Free?

[RiceGuy]

Oooh, I found gluten-free gravy and bunches of other things: Open Original Shared Link

[skbird]

Hey RiceGuy - sweet rice flour is basically starch. Good for some baking purposes. When I make cheese sauce, I sort of wing it, but this is my strategy:

cube or grate some cheese (usually cheddar, but sometimes I'll use parmasean or this lovely cheese I get at the store - San Juaquin Gold - LOVE IT!)

milk

sweet rice flour (no, it's not sweet)

garlic, nutmeg/various spices/seasonings

I put the cheese in a sauce pan - usually a small one, and usually enough cheese to be roughly half an inch deep in the pan. I take somewhere between a heaping tsp and a flat tbsp of sweet rice flour and mix it in with the cheese (this is while it's still cold). Then I add some milk, enough to at least half-cover the cheese, and leave the carton out in case I need to add more. Then turn on the heat, add the spices/garlic, and stir. It comes out great every time.

The best thing about sweet rice flour is how cheap it is - you can find it in the Asian food section of most grocery stores and it's usually $1.50 a box or less. Much cheaper than most of the other gluten-free flours.

Anyway, there's my cheese sauce recipe.

Stephanie

[skbird]

Sorry, I didn't answer the texture question. I don't notice anything with the sweet rice flour, and I try to avoid corn products so that's the whole story, really. And I use sweet rice flour to dust my pizza dough when I'm rolling it out and it tastes great on it, too, it reminds me of having a light dusting of white wheat flour on baked goods.

Stephanie

[RiceGuy]

Sorry, I didn't answer the texture question. I don't notice anything with the sweet rice flour, and I try to avoid corn products so that's the whole story, really. And I use sweet rice flour to dust my pizza dough when I'm rolling it out and it tastes great on it, too, it reminds me of having a light dusting of white wheat flour on baked goods.

Stephanie

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Thanks once again. I have used corn meal to dust the pizza pan, which adds a nice flavor IMO. Obviously not for those who are avoiding corn though.

I have just started looking into gluten-free flours, so I haven't made any pizzas yet. I am planning to try soon. I don't want to take the thread off topic, so do you know of a thread for good pizza doughs?