Seasonings That Go Well With Coconut Flour
- For frying recipes, using crustaceans, fish and fowl, coconut flour adds a tropical note to the flavor. The coconut flavor can stand alone with the simple addition of salt and pepper -- as you would use for fried fish, shrimp or chicken -- or you can accentuate the exotic undertaste of the coco flour using nutmeg and fruit juice. Coconut-mango shrimp is fried with a coconut milk batter, and the addition of coco flour to the breading enhances the tropical flavor.
- Coco flour can be leavened with baking powder, so it works well with a variety of baked goods. Coconut flour muffins, cakes, cookies and breads will all use the same seasonings you might select for the same recipes with wheat flour. Common among those baking seasonings are salt, vanilla, white and brown sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Many cooks like to blend fruit and fruit juices into pastry dough. Citrus extracts work well with coco flour, too. For low-carb eaters who want to avoid sugar substitute the super-sweet tasting herb stevia for sugar.
- Coco flour can substitute for wheat four as an oven breading. Casseroles and crab cakes are two good examples. Mayonnaise-based dressings work well with coco flour mixes, as do onions, chives, scallions and garlic. Picante seasonings that work well in some baked, main-course coco flour recipes include cayenne, jalapeno, habanero and Scotch bonnet peppers.
- Coconut flour cooks have also had a lot of success with curries. Curries are dishes associated with South Asia that have also become popular in England, the Caribbean and the United States. Many curries use coconut paste, which can be reconstituted using coconut flour and water. Common seasonings used in curries are turmeric, cumin and coriander. Fennel and hot peppers are also used in many curries.
Fried Foods
Baking
Casseroles and Crab Cakes
Curries
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