Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Substitute
Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour is a staple in our pantry. I have used it for years and I haven’t found a gum-free, high-protein, legume-based, gluten-free flour like it that lends great structure to egg-free baked goods.
Many of the recipes on this site call for Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour and a number of readers have asked for a 1:1 substitute. If you live abroad where Bob’s Red Mill products aren’t available, if you’ve run out, or if you are sensitive to possible cross-contamination with soy and/or tree nuts (which Bob’s Red Mill products may be), then try this nearly identical Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Substitute, cup-for-cup, in place of Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour.
Definitely Don’t Eat the Raw Dough
When recommending legume-based flour blends I always preface with, “don’t eat the dough raw.” Uncooked bean flours, like garbanzo flour, can taste rather icky. But trust the process. Once cooked, the bean taste neutralizes and only the most sensitive of palettes would ever detect it.
Now, How About Some Gluten-Free Vegan Pancakes?
I hope you will give my vegan gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free Saturday Pancakes a try and let me know what you think! It’s one of my most popular recipes and uses the flour blend you’ve just whipped up here.
This recipe makes a great substitute for Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour. It performs spectacularly well in egg-free baking. When recommending legume-based flour blends I always preface with “don’t eat the dough raw!” Uncooked bean flours, like garbanzo flour, can taste rather icky. But trust the process. Once cooked, the bean taste neutralizes and only the most sensitive of palettes would ever detect it.
Ingredients
4 parts garbanzo flour
2 parts potato starch
1 part tapioca flour
1 part sorghum flour
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a large airtight container or zip top bag.
Shake well to combine.
For optimal freshness keep refrigerated.
14 comments
Great post, Lexie. Love the recipe and your photos are always spectacular. You're such a creative, artsy, gluten-free-spirit girl! =)
Bean flours add some good protein to the mix. A lot of these blends are so devoid of nutrition. This is a good mix.
Melissa
xo
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Well thanks Melissa! I am honored by your words. I feel the exact same way about so many of the empty GF flours out there. I'm sure someone will come up with the perfect blend someday. Thanks for spreading the word about it.
-Lexie
Thank you for an awesome recipe! I made gluten free irish potato farls that called for Bob’s gluten free flour. Then I searched for a recipe for the Bob’s gluten free flour and came across yours. I had all the ingredients and I tried it out in the potato farls recipe and I like yours better! It’s so easy to make, I use an 1/8 cup measure and add it to a jar, shake to mix for 1 cup of gluten free flour. Thank you!
That is so cool that you came up with the mix! I've never seen anyone reverse engineer it.
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Hello Dairy(free) Queen! Have I told you the content on your site ROCKS!! So informative and helpful. I'm just trying to keep up 🙂
Terrific, Lexie! And, you win the award for briefest, but most helpful gluten-free post! 😉 I'm truly not kidding … how do you girls write such brief posts? LOL
I'm not a fan of Bob's products, so I may well use this homemade version in the future.
xo,
Shirley
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Ha! My 3-year old keeps my posts brief. He literally tries to pry my legs out of my office chair. Plus, has anyone caught on that I STRUGGLE with writing! It's definitely NOT the aspect of blogging that I love the most, hardly. Give me a camera or set me in the kitchen and I am in my element 🙂 Unlike you and so many others, words just don't flow. I really think that I suffer from some dyslexia (no joke). Anyway … about the blend I just kind of went by the list of ingredients on the back of the Bob's bag. I really have to wonder if they list their ingredients by quantity? Is that and FDA rule? So I used the same flours but used the basic rule for % of starch, protein and grain flours. I think it works pretty well. I will say that I tried making biscuits using Bob's GF biscuit mix and was not impressed.
I am just now starting to like bean flours… only took me 4 years into being gluten free! Lol!! My husband loves Bob's pancake mix, but I've always been hesitant of the AP mix because of the bean flours! I'd be more willing to try it now, after having the flying apron chocolate chip cookies with the garbanzo bean flours!
I love this picture, I love that jar and I love that label! I am also jealous that you are able to post such breif posts 🙂 I can ramble on and on and on…
Can you use garfava flour for the garbanzo bean flour and fava flour?
Do you have any suggestions to replace the bean flours? I can’t have any sort of beans. Thanks
Hi Tamara, Unfortunately I do not. This flour blend is ideally suited for egg-free baking … which many of my early recipes were.Bean flours are so unique in that they do not get gummy and pasty like rice and starches. The one I might suggest playing with is pea or lentil flour … but that is still a legume, but some folks who don’t tolerate beans do seem tolerate those. I wish I could be or more help :/ xoLexie
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Hi there.I just wanted to say this is the best copycat blend ever!One of my favorite recipe bloggers uses Bob’s ap flour in nearly all of her recipes,and they’re great to make when i can afford to buy the real deal.But i bake everyday! I cannot afford to pay 12 dollars a bag for donuts and cupcakes and breads everyday! This is the perfect sub! Thank you again!
Hi Renae, I use it throughout my cookbook too. Like you, I had to come up with something I could make that was more affordable. Thanks so much for the “review” 🙂
Are your measurements by weight or by cup. There would be a very big difference between a pound of tapioca flour versus a pound of garbanzo bean flour. Don’t want to waste a lot of ingredients trying to do this.
Thanks so much! I live in NZ and due to covid-19 we are not able to get BRM brand anymore. This is a saviour! And I can even make this one organic… Thanks again!