Muesli Slice

This recipe came about because I hate paying $5 for a Box of muesli bars. There is also that added bonus of having no nasties when you made something yourself!

Ingredients

125 g nuttlex

1/4 cup golden syrup

1 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup sultanas

1/2 cup cranberries

1/2 cup chopped dried apricots

1/2 cup gluten free SR flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Mix together all the dry ingredients

2. Melt nuttlex and golden syrup in a saucepan, over a low heat. Once melted pour of dry mixture and mix together.

3. Spoon the mixture into a lined rectangular tin. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

* I also thing this recipe would be loverly with coconut or almonds or other kinds of nuts.

Enjoy!

Original recipe from Donna hay, adapted by me to make it allergy free.

Hazelnut and maple cookies

So these biscuits came about from an empty pantry, so I improvised  and they ended up being really delicious so I though I would share:

Ingredients:

125g of nuttlex

1 cup castor sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

2 tbs maple syrup *

1/4 cup hazelnut meal

1 1/4 cups self raising flour

1 tsp xanthan gum

Method:

1. preheat oven to 180. Cream together butter and sugar. Add vanilla.

2. Beat in egg. Add in maple syrup and hazelnut meal, stir until combined.

3. Mix in flour and xanthan gum.

4. Spoon about a tablespoon of mixture onto a baking tray spacing biscuits a few centimetres apart.

5. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

Enjoy! 

* be careful what maple syrup you use, some contain glucose syrup derived from wheat.

Xanthan Gum- A gluten free bakers secret

In many of my posts you may have seen me use xanthan gum. You may be wondering what it is. It's a corn- based, fermented product. In appearance in resembles baking powder. In gluten free cooking it can be used to thicken. I find its a really good substitute for gluten in things like cakes and biscuits. I find it also helps in the raising process, so if your making something that needs to rise add it in a see the difference it makes. Below is a picture of the Xanthan Gum i got from coles.

Sarah

Chicken, bacon and mushroom risotto

This risotto is delicious, especially with homemade stock. It's flavour is very subtle even my 2 year old loves it.

Ingredients:
500g/ 2 chicken breasts
3 rashers of bacon
6 medium sized mushrooms
4 litres of good quality chicken stock (I make my own, but if you don't I recommend Campbell's real chicken stock)
1 cup arborio rice
2 gloves garlic
1 brown onion
Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1. Dice chicken, bacon, mushroom and onion
2. Begin by cooking the chicken. Once cooked remove chicken from pan and sauté onion, garlic, bacon and mushroom.
3. Put chicken back into pan and add in rice.
4. Using absorption method slowly add in stock. Season to taste.

Serves 4

Enjoy!

Sarah

Aldi 'has no' gluten free range

Recently when I was I aldi I happened to discover the now started stocking a gluten free range at very attractive prices. Two things caught my eye, the gluten free bread and the gluten free flours. I have tried out both these products recently and here is what I thought:

The bread-

I really think that the only good thing about the bread was the price! Totally missed the mark with this bread. I found it very dense and really hard to pallet. Won't be buying it again.

Gluten free flours- 

Aldi had both plain and self raising flours for sale. They cost about $3 a packet, which I really good in terms of the cost to other brands.  I have recently used both the flours I things I have made to test the flours out. I think in terms of taste, they were pretty good. However, the texture they gave was very grainy and really noticeable in things using a lot of flour. I don't think this is a good flour to use for baking. I don't think I'll buy it again.

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Yummy Meringues

Today I thought I would share with you a meringue recipie. The great thing about meringues is that it requires no changes to be wheat, dairy or soy free. To make the meringues i used a recipe of taste.com and it works really well. The only downside is that it takes ages to cook!

From Taste.com

 Here is the link to the recipe I use to make meringues. Enjoy!

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