Gluten-Free Coconut Flour — Awesome GF Recipe Ingredient, Bargain Price!
If you are looking for great addition to your gluten-free baking ingredients, look no further than your local United Kingdom (UK) Costco right now! This quite large bag (4#, or 1.81Kg) of Nutiva Organic Coconut flour was £4.99 (roughly $7.50 USD), which is a fantastic deal, and hopefully Costco continues to keep it available.
There are some things to note about baking with coconut flour: this stuff definitely absorbs liquids readily and your recipes will need to take that into account. But, once you get the proportions right, it is a wonderful ingredient to add to your baked goods — use it in cookies, brownies, breads, pancakes, and so much more. In moderation, it does not seem to alter the flavor-profile of most items either.
I even used some of this coconut flour in my homemade hummus as a thickener, though it did impart a slight sweetness (perceived) and a noticeable taste of coconut when I pushed the proportion up a bit much.
Here’s what the product at Costco currently looks like:
| Nutiva Organic Gluten-Free Coconut Flour at Costco UK |
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| Nutiva Organic Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Nutritional Data |
Nutrition: Coconut Flour is high-fiber and protein.
According to the label, this coconut flour is a near “perfect” (nutritionally) ingredient for us Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free diet people: it is very high fiber (nearly 50{5676e3b156b07d12bd9df9fe13d641a85da396026abde11a1ff2d0afc1b3c015} fiber by weight) and nearly a quarter protein by weight too! Seeing how difficult it is to find high-quality sources of fiber for use in our baking, I am quite pleased to have this ingredient as an option.
Bottom line: this product is quite versatile and fun to try out in all sorts of recipes. I definitely enjoy it in my baked goods and it makes a nice alternative to some other GF ingredients I would otherwise rely on.
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