Cooking alternatives in Gluten Free Food
Soy sauce
Because soy sauce usually has wheat in it you can’t use it for gluten free cooking. This can severely limit your Asian cooking options as soy sauce is a part of many popular recipes. If you want to use soy sauce in your cooking look for gluten free variety or alternatively you can use an Asian fish sauce instead. This can take a little get used to but if you like the taste of fish it can be an easy alternative.
Pie Crust
To make gluten free pie crust you will only need three common ingredients. These are:
½ Cup of shortening
1 ½ cups of rice flour
4 table spoons of water
To prepare the pie crust first preheat an oven at 400 degrees. In a bowl cut shortening into the rice flour and add the water. Using your hands work the dough until is soft and make a ball. Place the dough on a pie pan and press it in using the back of a wooden spoon. Place the pie crust into the oven and bake for fifteen minutes until it is golden brown.
Tortillas
Many people enjoy eating flour tortillas, if you are one of them, then you will need to change to eating corn tortillas instead. You should also try out some of the gluten free wraps that are available such as Asian rice wraps as these can be a very healthy alternative to flour based wraps.
Thickeners
A good alternative to flour thickeners is gelatin. You may also want to try arrowroot flour, agar or corn starch which all makes for good thickeners.
*This article is an excerpt from our eBook*