The Original
So I have been on a health kick lately and did a good month of no dairy, gluten, sugar, or grains...this means getting rather creative when cravings come along. For this I really only had one day where I needed some sort of bready substance, here is where Pinterest comes in handy! I found this pin a while back and decided to give it a shot. Let me preface the photos below...I altered the recipe a bit (I didn't have all of the ingredients it called for...the first red flag, I should have stopped here lol) and obviously had disastrous results. This post is in no way stating that the above recipe is bad, I wouldn't know because in essence I didn't really follow it, but it does look delicious and eventually I will try it and stick the recipe! Check it out.
The Pinstrosity
The pieces that turned out really delicious were the ones with browned spots on them at the top of the paper towel pictured here.
Look how tiny this one was! Also, it was so crumbly it fell apart shortly after this picture when I asked him where he was from...too much pressure I suppose.
Pretty bad right!! It was comical how crumbly everything turned out. So here's what happened;
the original recipe calls for 3/4 cup tapioca flour and 3 Tbs. of coconut flour. There was a little voice in the back of my head that thought just doing coconut flour would be ok (that's all I had at the time)...that little voice was so wrong! Every Pinstrosity bone in my body knew this wouldn't work out, but my stubborn self had to see it in the flesh, err um crumbs haha
So we mixed everything else the same (we substituted the full fat coconut milk for unsweetened vanilla almond milk...like I said the recipe was extremely altered here). Can I also mention that this was at like 10 at night and I hadn't had food for a good 15ish hours?? I needed bread and I needed it RIGHT then, so maybe I wasn't in my right mind when I made all these alterations lol
Anyways, we subbed the tapioca flour for coconut flour and I knew we needed something to adhere everything together so I added some xanthum gum (according to the ratio directions on the back of the package). What was supposed to be like a pancake batter was more like a peanut butter cookie textured dough. I put a big spoonful on a olive oiled pan and mahsed it flat to make a sort of flat bread, and then tuned it when it started to look more bread like.
Fortunately the very first one I did actually did taste like bread! It was thick like a flat bread, and wasn't tortilla like at all (like the original pictured). It feel apart and kind of turned into pieces of a flat bread but it was REALLY tasty and the texture was right on!
Now, enter in my sweet good intentioned Chip. He decided to roll out the dough by hand, make them into little cakes and coat each side with additional coconut flour and then brown them. Here is where things got real weird, they literally crumbled if you looked at them wrong. It tasted like straight coconut flour and it ATE up the olive oil so the texture was like a oil/flour mix and they were awful! That being said, Chip ate every single piece anyways haha!
So we all learned a few valuable lessons late that hungry night. Follow the directions, that you can variate a little with not so awful results (our first little cake), Chip will eat absolutely anything if he is hungry enough , and just follow the directions.
I will play with our first little flat bread some because it was awesome, I'm thinking it probably needs some more xanthum gum so that it doesn't fall apart. I'll keep you updated!
Hope you all got a good chuckle out of my kitchen misstep and will take this as a warning...follow the directions! Happy Monday all!
Haha oh man that's good! Oh geeze.
