Gluten free flapjack recipe

This recipe is:

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Egg free
• Yeast free

Flapjacks ... remember them? Oaty and sweet and soooo moreish. I'm hoping this attempt at a gluten free flapjack will fill the hole left by Mum's oat flapjack. We'll see...

Gluten free flapjack recipe

180g rice flour
2 tsp gluten free baking powder
75g rice flakes (we used brown rice flakes for a bit of extra bite - let's hope they don't come out too chewy!)
8g crushed puffed rice cereal
120g brown sugar (or, 100g brown sugar and a slosh of maple syrup)
125g gluten free margarine, or butter - melted

Preheat your oven to 180C (350F / Gas mark 4) and grease a baking tray with a little marg or butter. Sift the gluten free baking powder and rice flour into a bowl and add the rice flakes, rice cereal and sugar. Mix.

Make a well in the centre, pour in the melted butter or marg and stir until well combined - the mixture will be somewhat granular rather than a paste, but don't worry. Press the mixture into the baking tin about 1.5cm thick. Use your fingers to press down - they're non stick.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown then remove and leave in the tin while the gluten free flapjack cools. Go and do something to take your mind of them until they're cool.

And now mine are, so it's time for the big tasting... ....

Mmmmm... OK, well Mum, your flapjack crown is safe for now. These gluten free flapjacks are a bit crunchy to be true flapjacks, so next time I think the addition of about 50ml of water should help. That should soften the rice flakes and lend a bit of bend to the flapjack. Not bad for a first time though. Post a comment if you make this recipe and get your flapjacks more... well flapjacky.

Gluten Free Cranberry Sauce - Not Just for Christmas!

This recipe is:

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Egg free
• Yeast free

Here's a super quick super tasty gluten free cranberry sauce recipe. Much nicer (and safer) than the shop bought variety (which are generally more like jam than sauce).

Gluten Free Cranberry Sauce

300g fresh cranberries
100g sugar
200ml fresh orange juice

Bring all the ingredients to a simmer in a thick bottomed pan, and cook for 10 minutes. Leave to cool and serve. Keeps well for a few days, or can be frozen successfully.

Don't just save it for the turkey! Cranberry sauce goes well with many meats, hot and cold, and with grilled salmon. If the sauce is a little too sharp for your taste, you can add up to the same amount of sugar again before you start to make jam.

Gluten free cranberry sauce is an easy seasonal treat and packed with vitamin C, which is always a good thing in this season of snuffles and snot.

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Posted November 2006.

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There's also a greenhouse, workshop/store.

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Gluten free chilli sauce - hellish homemade heat

This recipe is:

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Egg free

I had to wrestle the recipe for this gluten free chilli sauce from Gluten Free Wifie's fingers - bottles of this go for a premium around these parts - usually a night's babysitting or some similar valuable contribution. She doesn't give it out easily so shhhhh...

Gluten Free Chilli Sauce

250 fresh green birdseye chillis
1 tbs grated fresh ginger
750ml white wine vinegar
6 cloves
2-3 tsp salt
3 cups sugar
300g sultanas

Simmer together for around 40 - 50 minutes (if you have an extractor fan, use it. Otherwise open all available windows and doors!) Then blend until a sauce-like consistency is reached. Bottle and put on the shelf for 6 weeks. Then be very, very careful. This gluten free chilli sauce is not for the faint hearted. Or those with pacemakers.

Gluten free minced beef parcels

This recipe is:

• Gluten free
• Dairy free
• Egg free
• Yeast free

Firstly, apologies for the lack of new gluten free recipes recently. We're trying to sell our house in Oban so things are somewhat crazy!

Here's a tasty and fancy little recipe we whip up from time to time. Minced beef parcels - gluten free naturally - wrapped in cabbage. And usually dipped in some of the Gluten Free Food Wifie's nasty, nasty gluten free chilli sauce.

Gluten free minced beef parcels

1 savoy cabbage
2 cloves garlic peeled
1 thumb-sized piece fresh ginger
Bunch spring onions (scallions)
Handful fresh coriander
1 fresh red chilli
2 tsp fish sauce
1 lb (0.5 kg) minced beef
1 small tin water chestnuts (couple of handfuls)
Zest and juice of 1 lime
1 tsp sesame oil
Olive oil
Gluten free soy sauce (tamari)

Soften the cabbage leaves in boining water for 2 minutes. Cool.

Blend in a food processor the ginger, garlic, coriander, spring onions, chilli and fish sauce. Add beef, water chestnuts, lime zest and juice and sesame oil. Pulse until chopped and mixed but not smooth.

Put a heaped desertspoon of mix onto the centre of each cabbage leaf, fold up the sides and roll. Place the parcels in a steamer. Wedge them in so they don't unwrap. Steam for 5-6 minutes then lift out a larger one and cut in half to check it is cooked.

Get yourself some outrageously hot gluten free chilli sauce, dip them in and start munching.