| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £2.25
Trade in Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £2.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Plus, get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Coconut flour is a delicious low-carb, gluten-free alternative to wheat. It is high in fiber, low in digestible carbohydrate, and a good source of protein. Coconut flour can be used to make a variety of delicious baked goods, snacks, desserts, and main dishes. It is the only flour used in most of the recipes in this book. These recipes are so good that you won't be able to tell that they aren't made with wheat. If you like foods such as German chocolate cake, apple pie, blueberry muffins, chees crackes, and chicken pot pie, but don't want the wheat; you will love the recipes in this book! All recipes include low-sugar or no-sugar variations.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am really disappointed. Coconut flour is low in carbohydrate so would be a great flour to make breads and different types of pastry with if only I had a decent recipe book as I need very low carb meals.
So, I bought this book as well as some coconut flour from Amazon, the cover says "A delicious Low-Carb, Gluten Free Alternative to Wheat".
But many or even most of the recipes also use high carb ingredients like Agave syrup, corn starch and sugar, even the recipe for bread. The author tells you to stick carefully to the recipes as coconut flour is tricky to work with and nothing like wheat flour, so I was hesitant to change Agave syrup to an alternative low carb sweetener like the zero carb Da Vinci syrups or stevia extract. Why no use of sweeteners? Even Splenda is better than sugar. The author justifies this by suggesting Agave syrup is natural and healthier than sugar - not true, some newish research suggests otherwise.
There are various lower sugar versions of recipes included but these are still far too high in sugar for many on low carb diet.
Also there seem to be gratuitous use of this flour in recipes where you don't need any flour at all: Hummus for instance which never has flour normally, just chickpeas (garbanzo beans), tahini oil, lemon juice and various seasonings. This one has 1/4 cup of coconut flour too.
This is not a cookbook for diabetics who control their blood sugar levels with diet alone, or anyone struggling with their weight or both. The funny thing is that it emphasises the low carb content of coconut flour in the introduction but then never follows through with low carb recipes or the carb count for any of them. What a pity.
I cannot comment on the quality of the recipes for those wanting a gluten free life as I couldn't use most of them. They sound delicious, many are versions of American favourites - muffins, corn breads etc. and the book is not aimed the UK reader.
So, I bought this book as well as some coconut flour from Amazon, the cover says "A delicious Low-Carb, Gluten Free Alternative to Wheat".
But many or even most of the recipes also use high carb ingredients like Agave syrup, corn starch and sugar, even the recipe for bread. The author tells you to stick carefully to the recipes as coconut flour is tricky to work with and nothing like wheat flour, so I was hesitant to change Agave syrup to an alternative low carb sweetener like the zero carb Da Vinci syrups or stevia extract. Why no use of sweeteners? Even Splenda is better than sugar. The author justifies this by suggesting Agave syrup is natural and healthier than sugar - not true, some newish research suggests otherwise.
There are various lower sugar versions of recipes included but these are still far too high in sugar for many on low carb diet.
Also there seem to be gratuitous use of this flour in recipes where you don't need any flour at all: Hummus for instance which never has flour normally, just chickpeas (garbanzo beans), tahini oil, lemon juice and various seasonings. This one has 1/4 cup of coconut flour too.
This is not a cookbook for diabetics who control their blood sugar levels with diet alone, or anyone struggling with their weight or both. The funny thing is that it emphasises the low carb content of coconut flour in the introduction but then never follows through with low carb recipes or the carb count for any of them. What a pity.
I cannot comment on the quality of the recipes for those wanting a gluten free life as I couldn't use most of them. They sound delicious, many are versions of American favourites - muffins, corn breads etc. and the book is not aimed the UK reader.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are looking for gluten free alternatives to everyday baked items, you can't go wrong with this offering. Fife has compiled an extensive list of recipes, ranging from breads to pastries and even Yorkshire Puddings. Many of the recipes taste as good, if not better, than their more traditional counterparts; when served to people who weren't aware of the origin, many of them had no idea these weren't made with "real" flour.
Even if you aren't cutting out the gluten, the recipes in the book will give you plenty of variety and is worth a look.
Even if you aren't cutting out the gluten, the recipes in the book will give you plenty of variety and is worth a look.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book explains very well how to use Coconut flour and it is not hard to use the American measures. From the UK point of view the portions are large and large dish sizes are used such as 9 inch. I have had good results scaling down the recipes once you understand the principles involved using Coconut Flour.
The main problem in the UK is obtaining Coconut Flour.
The main problem in the UK is obtaining Coconut Flour.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
coco-nut
Great recipes many of which I would love to try,main drawback is unable to find coconut flour easily and at a reasonable price, have tried many local possibilities, healthfood... Read more
Published 24 months ago by marianne
coconut flour
Coconut products are very suitable substitutes for tradional wheat flour, butter and oil. Coconut products used regularly have a reputation for improving general health. Read more
Published on 27 April 2010 by Mrs. Jacqueline Hollinshead
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
