Sorghum Flour is a versatile alternative flour that is naturally gluten-free. Its mild flavour works well in many sweet and savoury recipes in everything from flaky pastry to vanilla cake. Once you discover all this flour can do it will become an indispensable ingredient in your baking.
Sorghum Flour is a subtly flavoured whole grain flour but it cannot be used as a direct replacement for wheat flour as it lacks the necessary stickiness to keep a cake together. The flour should be paired with starchy flour to stop the bake from being dry and crumbly. Whisk Sorghum Flour with starchy flours like Sweet Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour or Arrowroot to create a perfect flour blend.
Whole sorghum grain.
1/2 teaspoon of binder is needed per cup of Sorghum Flour for cookies and cakes, and 1 teaspoon of binder per cup of flour for bread recipes.
A binder could be Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, egg whites, Corn Starch or Gelatin