2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14
Can't deny yourself the pleasure of eating cookies, but at the same time watch your figure? The ideal solution would be to replace wheat flour with dietary rice flour. Rice biscuits are a tasty and he althy delicacy that has a relatively low calorie content.
Features of rice flour
In cooking, two types of rice flour are known - white and brown. Their color depends on the source material. White flour is made from polished rice, and brown, respectively, from brown. They differ not only in appearance, but also in chemical composition. Darker flour contains more beneficial minerals and vitamins.
This flour is very common in China, Japan and Asia. In Russia, it is used much less often than wheat and corn. It is worth noting that when baking, rice flour is usually mixed with other types, since it does not contain gluten and it is almost impossible to cook anything from a pure product.
Rice flour benefits
Surprisingly, not many housewives have rice flour in their kitchen. The fact is that few people know about its benefits. ByCompared to our usual wheat flour, rice flour is much less caloric. Another advantage of this flour is the absence of gluten.
Rice flour biscuits, as well as noodles, pancakes and other dishes are ideal for those who care about he alth and adhere to proper nutrition. Rest assured that this ingredient will not damage your figure.
Adding rice flour to the menu helps prevent diseases of the liver, musculoskeletal system, improves blood circulation and heart function. Rice flour also has a beneficial effect on the condition and color of the skin.
How to make rice flour at home
Rice flour is rarely found on store shelves. Although the growing interest in he althy eating has contributed to the popularization of many products, including this one.
If you decide to make cookies from this flour, but did not find it in the nearest supermarket, do not despair. We will show you how to make your own rice flour. It's easier than you think.
Rice flour is made from ordinary rice. If you buy brown rice, you will get a more mineral rich product.
To grind rice into flour, you can use a kitchen blender, mixer, and even a coffee grinder. Pour the rice into a container and grind until smooth, stirring the mass periodically so that unnecessary lumps do not form.
Another way to make flour for rice cookies is to pre-fry the rice in a pan.
If after grinding it seems to you that the flourslightly damp, dry it in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 140 degrees.
The finished product is stored in an airtight container in a dry, dark place.
Diet cookies
We offer you the easiest and most economical recipe for diet rice flour cookies.
For cooking, prepare the following ingredients:
- 240 grams of rice flour;
- 120 grams of butter;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- one egg;
- half teaspoon baking powder;
- vanilla essence and ground cardamom.
The cooking technology is as follows:
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until fluffy and creamy.
- Add one egg and 5-6 drops of vanillin to the mass. Whisk well.
- Sift flour with baking powder, add a teaspoon of cardamom.
- Mix the creamy mass with flour and knead a soft dough.
- Wrap the finished dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 7 hours.
- After the required time, remove the dough and roll out small cakes from it. Please note that rice flour does not bake well, so the dough layer should be thin.
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees.
- Deco cover with parchment and lightly flour.
- Bake cookies for 15-20 minutes.
Thanks to cardamom and essence, you will get a fragrant cookie, and rice flour will give it a special crisp. This is a great snack for tea. Try it and you won't regret it.
Rice flour cookies for kids
Rice flour is actively used in the preparation of baby food due to its high content of vitamins and trace elements.
Therefore, we offer a recipe for rice cookies that will replace other sweets for children.
If a child is allergic to wheat flour, then gluten-free cookies will be an ideal alternative. It can be given even to babies up to a year.
After, if desired, you can add raisins, nuts, dried apricots and other goodies to cookies.
To make baby kefir rice flour cookies you will need:
- eight spoons of rice flour;
- three tablespoons of yogurt;
- 150 grams of butter;
- one hundred grams of sugar;
- two eggs;
- lemon juice;
- a teaspoon of soda;
- a little s alt.
- Slightly heat the yogurt, remove the butter from the refrigerator (so that it melts a little and becomes soft).
- Cut the butter into cubes, add s alt, sugar and grind this mass until smooth.
- Add soda slaked with citric acid to the mixture.
- Enter warm yogurt and eggs.
- Sprinkle flour and knead the dough.
- Leave the dough for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Line the deco with parchment paper and place thin cakes on it. Please note that the dough will turn out quite rare, so it may spread during baking.
- Bake baby cookies in the oven 10minutes.
If desired, the finished pastry can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Cookie with cottage cheese
Another wonderful recipe that we want to share with you - the most delicate and delicious cottage cheese rice cookies. We are sure that you have not tried this yet. Pretty easy to prepare, it will not leave your household indifferent.
How to make rice flour cookies with cottage cheese, see this video.
Rice flour is an indispensable product in the kitchen. It will help not only diversify the daily menu, but also maintain he alth and beauty.
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