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Making steel cut oats

Our cookbook, Love Real Food, is making steel cut oats! Learn how to make oat flour at home! You can use old-fashioned oats, quick-cooking oats or steel-cut oats. Oat flour is a nutritious whole grain flour that is easy to make out of—you guessed it—oats.

Oat flour offers a mildly nutty flavor and a tender crumb. Plus, oat flour is gluten-free if you make it with certified gluten-free oats. I’m receiving on recipes for baked goods. You’re having trouble finding traditional flours at stores. You’re curious about how oat flour works. So today, I’m sharing how to make oat flour.

Plus, I’ll provide guidance on how to substitute oat flour for best results. Oat flour is more suitable for some recipes than others. You’ll also find recipes that are designed specifically for oat flour, including my all-time favorite waffles. I’ll be sharing more healthy recipes that use this wonderful flour soon! How to Make Oat Flour You won’t believe how easy oat flour is to make.

Blend until the oats have turned into a fine flour. You’ll find more details in the recipe below. What kind of oats can be turned into oat flour? Since steel-cut oats are more dense, they require more blending time and yield twice as much flour per cup. The recipe contains eggs, which help bind the ingredients together. Gluten is a protein that provides structure to baked goods.

Eggs also provide some structure and help make up for gluten’s absence. Even with eggs, baked goods made with oat flour will be a little more delicate than their glutenous counterparts. This is when a kitchen scale comes in really handy. Oat flour is significantly lighter than all-purpose and whole wheat flour. If you use one cup of oat flour for every cup of regular flour, you won’t be using enough and your baked goods won’t rise as high as they should. In other words, multiply the original amount of flour by 1.

As a thank you, we’ll give you our welcome guide with 5 printable dinner recipes. K reader replies directly to my comment. You will not be subscribed to our email newsletter. Since, like many folks, I’m doing more baking these days, this was welcome information. Let me know what you think, William! 2 cup avocado oil or vegan butter. Place a peeled, cubed sweet potato in a medium pot of boiling water.

When the potato chunks are fork-tender, mash or blend with the vanilla and spices. Pour the sweet potato mixture into a bowl, and add the flour, baking power, oat milk, and oil. Thank you for sharing how you used oat flour! I appreciate you taking the time to review. Lynn, I’ll sub equal amount of oil with one-ingredient applesauce. Also, about the sweet potato, 1C? Sweet potatoes come in so many different sizes.