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Doing My Part to Help Keep Wheat Prices Low

I'm also doing my part to keep wheat flour prices low..by not using it, or any flour at all.

You may have heard of "flourless" recipes. They rely on nuts to replace the grains, but I'm allergic to all nuts and seeds. I came across this little ditty that uses no flour and no nuts:

Lentil Rice Crepes

With origins in India, it uses soaked lentils and rice--pick your color for both. I'm planning on playing with this recipe to see if I can expand its scope to include other beans and split yellow peas, along with wild rice and other grains besides rice. I'm also planning to see if I can expand the recipe's scope to include other baked goods beyond crepes.

If this would be a means to start a bread recipe, or cakes, or muffins, then I'm in business--I already have 25 lb. bags of stuff in the pantry, and buying "special" flours (gluten-free) just for baking is getting old and expensive--to make something GF, it takes a combination of flours.

Word has it that these rice crepes are sturdy enough to use as flatbread (re: tortillas to me), but I haven't made them yet, so I don't know personally. It sounds like a good project for this weekend.

Got lentils? Got rice? Join me. You can leave out the ginger, or add powdered ginger instead (I'm going to), and as for the ghee or grapeseed oil, you can just spray your pan--this recipe was originally written for people with all sorts of food allergies, and people who need to avoid all sorts of foods (like autistics, ADHDers, Celiacs, etc.).

This method of cooking/baking actually makes better sense than buying and storing large quantities of flour, because flour goes rancid after a certain amount of time (unless you make bakery-quantities of stuff). Lentils and rice don't go bad as far as I know, unless something gets in them (like mice, bugs, dirt, etc.). The flour I would have to buy is worse--it has to be FROZEN, because of the type of grains it's made from. I'd have to buy a whole separate freezer just for my flour, and a whole separate refrigerator just to store the opened stuff.

If I can just soak some legumes and grain overnight, maybe add a few more ingredients, then whip it up in the morning, dump it in a pan, then toss it in the oven (or on a burner), this would be cool--convenience AND frugality in one...not to mention much-improved nutrition!

Posted by Cute at 11:52 PM

Labels: food preparation and use, health