Unusual And Tasty 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 special ingredient is sometimes combined with garbanzo beans. If you have a larger quantity to keep, you should keep it in your freezer. Thanks to the fact it doesn't contain gluten, it is recommendable for people who are gluten intolerant. It might need more baking powder, but it does taste nice and gives some special quality to your foods. Replace some ingredients in your own recipes, or try to make one of these.

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.

The first thing you should do is to switch on the oven, on 180 degrees of Celsius. Take a non-stick pan and spread the apples mixed with one spoon of sugar and cinnamon on the pan. Bake it for maybe fifteen minutes. Mix egg whites with the rest of sugar, add yolks, vanilla and oil and continue mixing. Add all dry ingredients, mix it all together and spread over baked apples. Put it back into oven for another fifteen minutes.

When the cake is done, turn it upside down on the plate. Decorate with whipped cream. If you are lactose intolerant, you can use vegetable whipped cream or some other replacement. The amount of sugar in this recipe will mostly depend on the sweetness of apples, as well as on your personal taste. You can also use more cinnamon if you want.

Almond cookies are really simple, but tasty. With one egg, a cup of fava flour and the equal amount of ground almonds, sugar and butter, some cinnamon and cardamom and a little spoon of baking powder you can easily make them. Simply combine all these ingredients, form cookies and bake them in some non-stick pan, on maybe 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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