Flour Substitutions

[Passygassy]

Is there any flour I can use to substitute for tapioca flour? I am using it in a "mix" It's supposed to be part brown rice flour part corn starch part potato flour and part tapioca flour... Problem is I cant find the tapioca flour at my local markets anymore.. I am waiting to order some online but it wont be here for a month. Any one know of a ample substitution for it?

Christa

[purple]

From what I have read, all the starches are interchangeable. If I didn't have what the recipe called for I would sub another starch. Potato starch and potato flour are not the same thing but tapioca starch and tapioca flour are the same thing. Try subbing 1/2 cornstarch and 1/2 potato starch(not flour) or sub all cornstarch. There is also arrowroot starch and amaranth starch, I have never used them.

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From Carol Fenster: Tapioca flour helps browning and makes a crispier crust and a chewy texture...used in a similar manner as arrowroot.

[Passygassy]

From what I have read, all the starches are interchangeable. If I didn't have what the recipe called for I would sub another starch. Potato starch and potato flour are not the same thing but tapioca starch and tapioca flour are the same thing. Try subbing 1/2 cornstarch and 1/2 potato starch(not flour) or sub all cornstarch. There is also arrowroot starch and amaranth starch, I have never used them.

Info:

Open Original Shared Link

used as thickeners:

Open Original Shared Link

From Carol Fenster: Tapioca flour helps browning and makes a crispier crust and a chewy texture...used in a similar manner as arrowroot.

Thank you SOOO much!

[sbj]

Is there any flour I can use to substitute for tapioca flour? I am using it in a "mix" It's supposed to be part brown rice flour part corn starch part potato flour and part tapioca flour... Problem is I cant find the tapioca flour at my local markets anymore.. I am waiting to order some online but it wont be here for a month. Any one know of a ample substitution for it?

Christa

Not sure if you're still reading, Christa, but check out your local Asian market for tapioca starch/flour. I picked some up last night - ~ 14 oz box for 99 cents. Also got some rice noodles ($1.49), sweet rice flour (99 cents), and vietnamese crepe mix ($1.29).

[RiceGuy]

I think sweet white rice flour might also work in place of tapioca flour. However, each type of starchy flour tends to impart its own unique texture, so it's probably just as much a matter of preference as it is viability. In the baking experiments I've done, sweet white rice flour seemed to work a little better for what I was trying to get.