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Gram Flour

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WhosLookingAfterCourtney · 22/04/2014 16:32

I'm looking for ways to get my fussy dd to eat more protein during the day,I've tried gram flour scotch pancakes, but she didn't like them.

Anyone got a good cake recipe using gram flour?Or other sweet recipes?

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carolinementzer · 22/04/2014 17:38

I've got an awesome gram flour chocolate brownie recipe - my daughter (3.5yrs) loves it (as does my husband). It's on my blog - mydaughterwontsleep.com/gfrecipes/ just scroll down to Chickpea flour Chocolate brownies. Hope you enjoy it! I make pancakes with gram flour too - but mix it with rice flour and sometimes coconut flour to make it lighter.

spilttheteaagain · 22/04/2014 18:28

Not sweet but... bhajis! My toddler used to love them (though she's gone off them again in the irritating fashion of small children...)

I shred onion in my mini chopper and mix it with grated carrots and a sprinkling of frozen peas (but you can use pretty much any veg you like), and then add half a tsp each of cumin, coriander and garam masala, pinch salt and pinch of cayenne. Mix it round and pour in gram flour so that the veg all has a decent coating. Add water and mix, then fry dollops of the mix until dark golden on all sides. Drain on kitchen towel and eat hot. Salt when cooked for adults.

MrsGarvey · 22/04/2014 18:47

Try making Blueberry Friands - they are high in protein with lots of egg white and ground almond and the dcs love them.

Stuffofawesome · 22/04/2014 18:54

hugh fearnley whittingstall has a good sweetcorn fritter recipe with gram flour

WhosLookingAfterCourtney · 22/04/2014 19:40

Thanks all. Will try the brownies and blueberry friands.

Love the sound of bhajis but she won't try anything new, unless I can credibly claim that it's cake Grin

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spilttheteaagain · 23/04/2014 07:33

A high protein gorgeous cake - 5 eggs and lots of ground almonds:

Flourless chocolate and almond cake
It is amazing. Dense, fudgey, like a giant chocolate brownie, fab with really thick cream and some raspberries.

200g dark chocolate (70% or higher cocoa solids preferred)
1 tbsp strong espresso coffee (optional)
1 tbsp rum or brandy (optional)
150g caster sugar
150g butter
100g ground almonds
5 eggs, separated
1 tbsp of icing sugar, for dusting
Preheat the oven at 180°C. Butter and flour a 20cm round cake tin really, really well. This cake likes to stick!
Melt the chocolate, coffee, rum or brandy, sugar and butter in a glass bowl sitting over a pot of barely simmering water (ensure the bowl does not touch the water). The chocolate should melt in 5 – 7 minutes. When all ingredients are liquid, remove from the heat and stir to combine. Leave to cool for a few minutes.
Add the ground almonds to the liquid chocolate mix and mix well. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time (I added all five egg yolks at once and the cake seemed okay).
In an electric mixer, beat the egg whites until stiff and peaky. Add a third of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture and combine to loosen the mix. Doing this makes adding the rest of the egg whites much easier. Gently fold in the rest of the egg whites, until just combined, with no specks of egg white visible.
Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Less if you like it fudgey, more if you like it cakey.
Leave to cool. The cake will collapse and crack. Gently remove from the tin. Dust with icing sugar to serve (but obv this is just for aesthetics and can be omitted)

Lovage · 28/04/2014 21:11

I make (breadmaker) bread with 100g of gram flour and 500g of ordinary white flour. It comes out slightly yellower and dries out quicker (like 2 days), but is otherwise acceptable to my picky eaters. If you add an egg or two in place of some of the water that makes it last slightly longer before it dries and adds yet more protein. Don't add more than 1/6th gram flour though, or it doesn't rise...

I tried using gram flour in yorkshire puddings, but that was a floppy failure.

Making bread is my easiest way of adding protein - mine will now eat bread with bits in it, so sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts and things like that are really easy to add, as well as extra eggs.

I also make 'stealth nutrition pancakes' which are a mixture of ordinary flour, buckwheat flour (might work with gram flour instead), loads of eggs and a tin of white beans (butter, canellini, that kind of thing). The kids get an eggier version and the grown ups a less eggy one (make the batch in the liquidizer, pour off about 2/3 for the adults, then add extra eggs for the kids ones).

Flapjack? Mine have it with some combination of pumpkin, sunflower, poppy, sesame and flax seeds, poor little sods. Of those, pumpkin are probably the ones most likely to be rejected because they're a different colour from the surrounding yellow-ness. Ground flaxseeds are really easy to hide... (but don't use too much or it turns them out).

I may be a little obsessive about getting enough protein into my (veggie, picky) children...

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