Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Some New Fava Flour Recipes

By Paul Thompson


Fava is a large bean, one of the tastiest and meatiest beans you can find. It is often used as a flour improver, because it gives fuller and more distinguished taste. It possesses active fat-oxidizing enzymes which affects gluten protein, providing gluten-free baking qualities. There are numerous fava flour recipes for baking cookies, cakes, breads or pizzas.

This particular ingredient is often mixed with garbanzo beans, and can be used instead of rice flour in different recipes. Experts recommend that you keep it in your refrigerator, and that you use a little bit more baking powder when you use it in your usual recipes. In the beginning, you might want to replace only a part of your ingredients with this new one, just to get used to this new taste.

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.

Put your sliced apples with a little bit of sugar and cinnamon into the preheated oven. Let it bake for maybe 15 minutes or so, on 180 degrees of Celsius. Mix egg whites with sugar and vanilla sugar, add oil and yolks and continue mixing for a while. Combine with other ingredients, spread on the apples and put it all back into oven for another 15 minutes or so.

When the cake is baked, you should turn it upside down on a plate. Level the apples if needed. Cover with whipped cream. In case you don't want to use a real cream, you can use vegetable whipped cream instead. When it comes to sugar, it depends on your apples' sweetness. Of course, you could add more sugar if you prefer sweeter cakes, or more vanilla or cinnamon, according to your taste.

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.

Poppy muffins with raisins and dark chocolate make unusual but tasty dessert. You will need following ingredients. Three eggs, one little spoon of baking powder, one cup of puppy seeds, ground, the same quantity of fava flour, of sugar as well as of vegetable oil, half cup of raisins and the same quantity of chopped dark chocolate, vanilla and a pinch of cinnamon.

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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