What is gram flour and what can you substitute for it?

Answer 1

Gram flour is made from chickpeas, and can be used in place of corn or wheat flour for thickening soups, Sauces and Gravies.

Gram flour is gluten free, and provides a nutty flavor to foods. You can substitute it for other flours in equal amounts.

Answer 2

Not normally; gram flour has a very different set of properties to plain (wheat) flour; it contains no gluten which means that when plain flour is replaced by gram flour, the structure of the baked good will be drastically altered. (Gluten free flours are more difficult to "shape" than gluten containing flours; it's similar to trying to shape mashed potato). Lack of gluten means that goods are more prone to having a brick like consistancy.

The second issue is that gram flour is much denser than plain flour, which means that goods baked from it will be far harder in texture.

Also because gram flour is denser, it cannot be subsituted weight-for-weight with regular flour, because the same weight will give you a different volume of flour. (Although it can be substituted volume-for-volume).

Hence, it's better not to substitute plain flour with gram flour.

Answer 3

I think what you're referring to is "what is garam flour". This is a flour that is made of ground-up chickpeas. The flour can be substituted with a gluten-free flour, such as corn flour and the like.

Answer 4

Yes you can. Gram flour has a nutty flavour so using another flour means you will miss out on that flavour. You can always add a bit more turmeric or cumin etc.

Answer 5

Yes. To substitute plain flour for cake flour, use 1 Tablespoon LESS all-purpose flour in each cup of cake flour called for in the recipe.

Answer 6

Not if it's plain wheat flour. All wheat flour contains gluten, and even a small amount can affect a person with Celiac Disease or gluten allergy.

Answer 7

Whole Grain flour can substitute for white flour