Women seeking to lose weight, deny themselves a delicious pastry, afraid to get better again. Especially for them, nutritionists have created a list of ingredients that allow you to replace high-calorie wheat flour without the risk of gaining extra pounds.
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Low calorie replacement
Wheat flour can easily be replaced with rice, corn or almond flour, the latter is prepared even at home, grinding raw almonds in a blender or coffee grinder. Buckwheat, coconut or flaxseed flour, which, in addition to its low calorie content, also have a lot of useful properties, will also serve as an excellent substitute.
As for the proportions, to replace one tablespoon of wheat flour, you need 0.5 tablespoon of corn or potato starch, 0.5 tablespoon of starch from arrowroot rhizome, 2 tablespoons of cassava flour or 0.5 tablespoon of rice flour. To make the bakery tastier, when preparing it, you should use not one, but several varieties of flour.
To replace one cup of wheat flour, you need to take 0.5 cups of barley flour, 0.75 cups of oatmeal, 1 cup cornmeal, 0.6 cups of potato flour, 1 incomplete cup of finely ground cornmeal or 0.9 cups of rice flour. Also, 1 cup of white flour can be replaced with 1.25 cups of rye flour, 1 cup of coarse rice flour, 0.5 cup of rye flour mixed with 0.5 cup of potato flour, 1.3 cups of ground oatmeal, 1 tbsp. soy flour mixed with 0.75 cup potato flour or 0.7 cup rye flour mixed with 0.3 cup potato flour.