A new word in cooking: coconut flour. Recipes from coconut flour. Coconut flour: how to make?

With the appearance on the shelves of the previously unprecedented variety, the cookery books of the housewives were replenished with new, very tempting recipes. And even more often for baking they choose not the usual wheat, but coconut flour. With its use, even ordinary dishes acquire a new taste "sound", making the table more refined and diverse.

What is good about coconut flour

It would seem, why change the familiar to something uncharted, risking the taste of the ultimate culinary masterpiece? Everyone knows that an unsuccessful combination of products can "kill" a dish that you have cooked many times, and which has caught on to all family eaters. Meanwhile, cooks are willing to take risks, and coconut flour flashes more and more often in the shopping lists. Recipes from it are already quite numerous. It is replaced by all other varieties of flour for cookies, cakes and cakes, and for ordinary bread, which becomes special and original with it. This is due to the fact that flour from coconut is much more useful than others. First, it is rich in vitamins, including vitamin D, due to the lack of which all suffer in winter. Secondly, it contains a huge amount of magnesium with potassium, and in easily assimilated form. As a result, pastries, which includes coconut flour, contribute to the normalization of metabolism, improves and improves digestion, rejuvenates the skin and significantly reduces the possibility of clogging vessels.

Coconut flour: how to make

The attractiveness of the product is greatly reduced by its price. In addition, there is not always an opportunity to buy it. To fill this gap, the people have developed a method that can easily make flour from coconut chips themselves. It is much cheaper and becomes quite affordable: the shavings are sold almost in every supermarket. The algorithm of "production" is as follows.

1. The shavings are poured with a four-volume volume of water and are set aside for 4 hours.
2. Blender or combine it is brought to homogeneity.
3. Mass through gauze is carefully squeezed from the liquid, which is coconut milk. It can be used in many tempting dishes.
4. The pressed mass is distributed over the oven sheet and placed in an oven, brought to 90 gr. Before drying.

It only remains to grind the workpiece to the state of flour.

Berry cakes

One of the best recipes in which coconut flour is used is very easy to perform and gives excellent results. In a bowl, mix a glass of flour, a spoonful of soda and a half of salt. In another vessel half a glass of honey is beaten with six eggs with a gradual introduction of a glass of coconut milk and - if desired - 3 spoonfuls of vanilla extract. Both masses are joined together, a glass of blueberries or raspberries interferes with them, and the dough is distributed among the molds, made by paper cups. Forty minutes of baking, and the dessert for tea is ready.

Banana casserole

It can be a wonderful breakfast, and can act as a nice addition to evening tea. In the bowl, half a spoonfuls of baking powder, a third of a glass of coconut chips, coconut flour (four spoons) and cinnamon, taken to taste. Separately knead four bananas, and then whisk with the same number of eggs. Add dry mix plus half a glass of ground any nuts. The mass pours out into a form lubricated with oil (preferably coconut oil), and is baked from 20 minutes to half an hour, until puncturing with a toothpick will give a dry skewer. For more seductiveness, the ready casserole is poured with melted chocolate and sprinkled with coconut shavings.

Biscuit cookies

Without baking can not do, perhaps, no one house. Each mistress seeks to please her family members with something delicious and non-standard. To such dishes, undoubtedly, refers and cookies from coconut flour. First of all, it is necessary to connect a bag of baking powder, two tablespoons of powdered sugar (sugar substitution is not allowed), half a glass of coconut flour (for pedants - 120 grams) and 20 g of coconut shavings, without using mechanical kitchen appliances. Do not forget to sprinkle a pinch of salt, without it there should not be any dough. Slightly more than half a pack of butter (150 g) is cooled and finely chopped. Pieces are poured into a dry mixture; The dough is kneaded - like the usual shortbread, only the coconut flour. It turns out extremely tender, so it is necessary to knead lovingly and without haste. For a third of an hour, the workpiece is placed in the refrigerator; For this time the oven will just have time to warm up to 165 Celsius. Without waiting for the dough to pick up the room temperature, cookies are made from it, again, without the use of a rolling pin. Bake it will be about a quarter of an hour; A sign of readiness can be considered equal golden surface.

Ready cookies can be eaten so, and you can enrich it with icing with candied fruits or chocolate crust.