Very Best Gluten Free Yeast Dough - for Bread, Buns, Pizza Crust, Cinnamon Rolls.

This recipe is our family favourite - it might have a few more ingredients but it's definitely worth the effort.  It's designed for use in a large stand mixer or Bosch.  This recipe evolved from when my son and I ran a gluten free bakery together.  It can be used for bread, buns, pitas, pizza buns, pizza crust, cinnamon rolls etc.  It is my all purpose gluten free yeast dough.  I make it in a Magic Mill Mixer that can hold 7 cups water and 15 cups flour.  If you are using a Kitchen Aide type mixer you should cut the recipe in half.
Booy's Gluten Free all  purpose yeast Dough - for Breads, buns (hamburger/hotdog), rolls, pizza crust cinnamon buns. ( This recipe makes two loaves of bread and about 24-30 buns).
750 ml boiling water
6 tablespoons pysillium husk
1/2 cup warm water
1 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons yeast (not the rapid kind)
1/2 cup flax, ground
586 grams cornstarch
300 grams tapioca starch flour
60 grams chickpea flour
60 grams sweet rice flour
1 cup milk powder
2 tablespoons chia - ground
1 cup sugar (I now use 1/2 cup sugar instead and it works great)
24 grams xanthan gum  (I now use 12 grams xanthan gum and it works great you can use guar gum but the dough is not as stretchy)
1 tablespoon salt
3/4 cup lard (butter or margarine softened)
6 eggs
1/3 cup applesauce (can also substitute canned pumpkin)
1/3 cup cottage cheese
2 teaspoons vinegar
Method:
Put boiling water into larger mixer bowl.  Stir in pysillium husk (not the powder, but the coarser stuff)
Let sit 15 minutes or while you measure out the rest of the dry ingredients.
In another large bowl put:
flax, cornstarch, tapioca starch, chickpea flour, sweet rice flour, milk powder, chia seed, sugar, guar gum, salt.  Wisk together.
In small bowl, place 1/2 cup warm water, 2 teaspoon sugar and 3 tablespoons yeast.  Let sit 10 min.
To make dough:
Turn mixer on, add the lard, eggs, applesauce, cottage cheese, vinegar and part of the flour mix.  Add the yeast mixture and the rest of the flour mixture.  Mix on medium high for 15 minutes.  Cover and let rise 1 hour in warm place.  Shape into bread, buns, etc.  If your kitchen is cool it can take at least two hours to rise.  Preheat oven to 350.  Bake buns for 20 minutes or until golden.  Bake bread at 350 for 35 minutes.
To form buns, grease your hands really well with butter or lard.  Using a spoon or icecream scoop measure out your dough and lightly form it in your hands into a smooth ball.
To form a loaf place 600 grams of dough into a well greased loaf pan.  With greased hands smooth and shape the dough.  Cover with clean t-towel to let rise.
The best bread pan for gluten free loaves is the Fat Daddio's loaf pan BP5642.  It is 4" x 8".  Wider pans do not work as well with gluten free dough.

After mixing 15 minutes dough is firm enough to handle but sticky

flatten ball of dough on your palm, place 1 heaping Tbsp. filling in center.

fold edges of dough around filling and roll in hands to form

dinner rolls, scoop dough and roll between greased hands to form

nice texture!

600 grams dough in loaf pan, grease hands and shape while in pan

New Years Eve Punch - Booy Family tradition

This punch has been served at every New Years Eve gathering at the Booy's .

Booy New Year's Punch
2 lemons,
1 stick cinnamon
2 cloves
6 blanched almonds
2 cups water
4 1/3 cups tea
1 cup red currant juice (I substitute cranberry juice or red crabapple juice)
3 1/4 cup apple juice
1 1/2 cups sugar
Method:
Peel lemon
In large pot heat water, spices, lemon peel and almonds - do not boil.  Strain and put back in pan.
Add tea, juices, sugar and the juice from the lemon.  Heat and serve hot.

Gluten Free Dinner Rolls - Light and Delicious!

nice texture

 My daughter-in-law, Michelle, made a cake out of puréed quinoa for her daughter's birthday and it was very good and moist - with good keeping qualities.  She also made loaves of bread with some pureed quinoa and said it was quite moist but good and she would reduce the amount of quinoa next time to see if that was better.  Today I tried it out with my recipe with 1/4 cup of pureed quinoa - they worked out very well and make a nice light bun - great for dinner rolls, hamburger and hotdog buns.  I even made a loaf of bread out of 1.5lbs of the dough.

Gluten Free Dinner Rolls   - 3 dozen                                     

fresh out of the oven!

1/4 cup quinoa plus 1/2 cup water
3  cup warm water
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons yeast
4 tablespoons pysillium husk (available at health food stores or bulk food stores - important to use in recipe)
4 egg, large
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1 tablespoon chia seed
1/2 cup flax meal (ground flax seeds)
5 teaspoons guar gum
2 cups cornstarch
1 1/4 cup fine rice flour
3/4 cup millet flour 
1/2 cup sweet rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 cup dry milk powder
1/3 cup sugar
Method:
Rinse quinoa with water - drain. Place 1/4 cup quinoa in sauce pan with 1/2 cup water.  Bring to a simmer, cover and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit 10 -15 minutes.   Place 2 cups water, cooked quinoa, chia seed and flax in blender or food processor.  Puree.  Set aside.
Next:  
Put 1 cup warm water into mixer bowl.   Stir in the sugar and yeast.  Add the pysillium husk.  Let sit 10-15  minutes until yeast starts to work.  Add the pureed quinoa mixture and turn on mixer.  Add remaining ingredients.  Mix/knead for 15 minutes. Cover with clean dish towel and et rise  in mixer bowl for about 60 - 90 minutes or until doubles in size. ** Grease the baking sheets and using a small ice cream scoop scoop the mixture onto the baking sheet. Cover with greased plastic or a clean dish towel. Make your hands very wet and using your fingers shape and smooth the dough.  Let rise about 60 - 90 minutes.  Bake at 375 for 20 minutes or until light brown.  Remove from baking sheet onto rack and let cool.
If you cannot get millet you can try chickpea flour, amaranth or sorghum flour.
Note: If your house is cool like ours was today it takes 90 minutes of rising time.  On a warm summer day it will be much shorter.

rinse quinoa using something like this

pysillium husk

after mixing 10-15 minutes the dough will resemble a very thick batter

after rising 90 minutes

hamburger bun before rising

Hamburger and Hot Dog buns 

Dutch Pea Soup - Easy and Gluten Free

Great during the winter months!

divided up into individual lunch servings

Dutch Pea Soup - gluten free
16 cups water (tastes even better if you use about 4-6 cups chicken stock in place of water)
4 cups split peas
3-4 stalks celery, diced
1 cup sliced leak - optional but tastes good in this soup
2 tablespoons dry parsley
2 teaspoon salt (depending on how salty your stock is - add last if unsure)
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 bay leaves
2 cups diced ham or smoked sausage (optional if using ham bone)
1 meaty ham bone (or use 1 litre of chicken  stock in place of part of the water)
Add everything except salt to the large soup pot.  Simmer, stirring occasionally for 2 hours or until peas are soft. Taste and add salt to your preference.
Pea soup always tastes better the next day.

Gluten Free Dutch Bitterballen or Turkey Croquettes

GF Dutch Bitterballen /Turkey Croquettes
3 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup rice flour
1 cup turkey broth
2/3 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon thyme
2 cups diced turkey
1 teaspoon parley flakes
1 egg

Coating:
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 cups dry finely ground bread crumbs

Method:
Melt butter in large saucepan.  Stir in the rice flour gradually stir in turkey/chicken broth - cook over low heat stirring constantly until thickened.  Stir in the salt, pepper, thyme, turkey and parley.  Stir in the egg and stir over low heat for one minute. Chill at least 2 hours or overnight before forming.
Shape into round 1 1/2" balls.

In one bowl - combine remaining egg with milk, beat well. Have bread crumbs in another dish - you may season them a little with salt and pepper.
Roll each croquette in the crumbs, then dip in the egg milk mixture and roll in crumbs again.  Place on a baking sheet uncovered in the fridge so they can dry before deep frying.  Heat oil to 375 F it should be at least 1" deep.  Add croquettes and fry 1 1/2 to 2 minutes on each side.  Drain on paper towel.
The recipe shows that it makes 12- 18 croquettes - but of course that depends on the size you make them.

roll the chilled turkey mixture into 1- 1/2" balls

roll in gluten free bread crumbs

then roll in egg/milk mixture and then in crumbs again (below)

rolling in crumbs

                                   

nicely formed bitterballen air drying before deep frying

Getting the teens to help makes it much easier!

Gluten Free Speculaas - or Gluten Free Dutch Almond spice cake

Another of our family traditions is Speculaas.  This almond paste filled cake was easy to make gluten free and tastes just as good.
Gluten Free Speculaas
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 large egg
2 cups chickpea flour
2/3 cup potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca starch
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon allspice
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon mace
1/8 teaspoon cloves
almond paste (use store bought if gluten free or make your own - recipe below)
Almond Paste Recipe:
8 oz. ground almonds - I use a fairly fine grind.
1 egg
2 egg yolks
1 cup sugar
1 lemon rind grated. ( I use about 1-2 teaspoons depending on what I have and how lemony you want it.  I freeze the rest for next time.
Place almond meal in mixing bowl.  Add remaining ingredients and mix well with wooden spoon or hands.  Cover and chill.
Method:
Roll out almond paste about 1/4" thick and to fit the 9 x 13 pan.  I roll out between waxed paper.
Cream butter, sugar and egg together.  Sift remaining ingredients and stir into the butter, sugar egg mixture.
Divide in half.

Grease a 9 x 13 baking pan.  Press half the mixture into the pan. Cover with almond paste. Then on waxed paper cut to the same length and width as the baking pan roll out the remaining half of dough and flip over onto the almond paste.  Brush with beaten egg white and sprinkle with almonds.  Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes.

hand pressed into pan

dough rolled on parchment then flipped

over onto almond paste

peel off the parchment paper

second layer of dough placed over almond paste

Gluten Free Stroopwafels (Dutch syrup wafers)

A family tradition for as long as I can remember.  My mom brought a stroopwafel iron home from Holland and has been using it for years.  She even made enough of the wafers to serve to our guests at our wedding in 1978.  For years I tried to mimic my mom's recipe and no matter what her's are always best. They taste great and her's were always perfectly formed - something we are still working on!  This year because I was short on butter I used margarine in the dough and butter in the filling.  These ended up being much closer to hers - for some reason the margarine made the wafer part crisper than the butter did.  I have a feeling that is what she used because at home we always baked with margarine as I was growing up.
Gluten Free Stroop Wafels
13/4 cup white rice flour
1/4 cup sweet rice flour
3/4  teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 cup margarine
1 large egg
1-2 more large eggs
up to 2 tablespoons milk if needed to make dough softer.
Method:
Using a mixer cream the sugar and margarine together.  Mix in 1 egg.  Sift the dry ingredients together and stir in.  Add one more egg.  Mix well. Stir in an additional egg .  Should be like cookie dough.  If required add a little milk to soften the dough.
Syrup
1 cup corn syrup
1/2 lb of butter
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon.  Heat and stir until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved.  Cool a little before using.  If it gets too stiff then warm up a little in the microwave.

Mine are not so nice and round so I trim them while hot with a round biscuit cutter

Heat your stroopwafel iron setting the dial to #3.  Once hot place a 1" ball of dough on iron.  Close iron and let cook until the steam stops and the wafer is golden brown.  Quickly slice in half (try not to burn your fingers!) with a sharp thin bladed knife - I use a filleting knife.  Spread about 1 tablespoon syrup on wafer and cover with other half of wafer.  Place on baking sheet.  Freeze on baking sheet and then stack 6 to a pile and wrap tightly in plastic wrap - this prevents them from separating while in the freezer.

As you can see there is a nice layer of syrup in between.