Sunday, November 19, 2017

Discover Interesting Fava Flour Recipes

By Paul Thompson


The qualities of fava beans are lately more and more appreciated. The beans are used for making really tasty and meaty flour. Thanks to the fact that fava flour recipes don't contain gluten and are really rich in fibers, common meals might become tastier and healthier, and this works for sweets as well as for breads, pizzas and other popular foods.

It is often mixed with garbanzo beans, and can also replace rice starch in various recipes. It is recommendable to keep it in the freezer. It is rich in fiber and gluten free, but requires a little more baking powder than you would use in your traditional recipes. It can also replace only a part of similar ingredients you would normally use, and you will get healthier and really tasty foods.

There is one really easy recipe you could start with. This quick apple cake takes just a little time and effort to make, and tastes really nice. You will need three to four apples, sliced, three eggs, one cup of fava flour, one tsp of cinnamon, baking powder and vanilla sugar, one cup of ground walnuts and the same quantity of sugar and a half of a cup of some vegetable oil.

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.

Here is another quite unusual but really tasty dessert. It is called Poppy muffins with raisins and dark chocolate. For preparing it, you will need three eggs, one cup each of fava flour, vegetable oil, sugar and ground poppy seeds. You also need half of that quantity of raisins and chocolate chips, and a little bit of cinnamon, baking powder and vanilla, depending on your taste.

Mix well the eggs and sugar, add vegetable oil, vanilla and cinnamon. Add poppy seeds, baking powder and flour and, in the end, raising and dark chocolate pieces. Bake in muffin molds, on 180 degrees of Celsius, for maybe fifteen to twenty minutes. You can decorate your muffins with chocolate cream.




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