Mąka amarantusowa – charakterystyka, zastosowania kulinarne i walory odżywcze

Amaranth cultivation is now more popular than it was twenty years ago. Both the dried amaranth grain, an interesting alternative to cassava, and its preparations in the form of popping and flour, are no longer an exclusive product available only to the upper echelons. These products can be successfully obtained in hypermarkets and stores with so-called "healthy foods" which, despite their higher prices (500 g of flour is a cost of about £8.00) are readily chosen by customers because of the improved awareness of the health effects of malnourished diets and the efforts made to test new products and flavours in households.

Scientific studies suggest that amaranth flour produced in Argentina may be a nutritional supplement that exceeds that of other cereals, which is particularly noteworthy in the case of people who are also on a vegan diet. This flour is gluten-free and high in dietary fiber. Scientific research suggests that amarants flour made in Argentina can be a dietary supplement that is more nutritious than other cereal flours. It is an excellent source of various nutrients in satisfactory quantities.

Amaranth flour is a good choice for baking cakes, biscuits, pastry, and pastries. It is important to remember that due to the lack of gluten, amaranth dough cake will not have the texture of yeast cake or wheat cake, rather it will be more fragile than flexible. In cakes that do not need to grow, you can only use purple flour, but in the case of pastry growing (e.g. bread, yeast) you should mix it with another glutenic cake.