Carla's Gluten Free Recipe Box
1,900 Gluten Free Recipes by Retired Recipe Developer, Carla Spacher
Over 500 gluten-free and nut-free recipes made by professional recipe developers and authors. From healthy to decadent, including the avoidance of other allergens.
There’s not too much to purchasing a tube of premade polenta, slicing it, and grilling it. However, making homemade polenta is almost as easy, but tastes so much better. You must try it. You can use gluten free polenta or yellow grits. See below for choice of brands. Enjoy! Continue reading “Grilled Homemade Gluten Free Polenta”
You will find recipes calling for flour in pastry cream. However, it creates a sandy, almost powdery texture. There is an easy workaround for this problem, which creates an amazingly smooth texture. Use pastry cream to fill pastries, Boston cream pie, and other desserts.
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I love making crepes because you can do so many things with them. Filled them with sweets and serve them for breakfast, brunch or dessert. Fill them with savory meat and sauces for lunch, dinner, or an appetizer. This particular gluten free crepes recipe uses the zest (grated peel) of fresh lemon to create spectacular flavor. Enjoy!
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To avoid summer heat in the kitchen, baking brownies in a slow cooker is ideal. The slow cooking and most environment creates moist and tender brownies. This version of slow cooker gluten free brownies are decadently rich. A better name for them may be truffle brownies. They are absolutely yummy and their height is about 1 3/4-inch. Continue reading “Slow Cooker Gluten Free Brownies”
Arrabbiata is a spicy Italian sauce usually served with penne pasta. Its strong garlic and tomato base with the potent heat may make you look angry. That is exactly what arrabbiata means, “angry”. Gluten free arrabiata can easily be made. Just be sure to use gluten free canned tomatoes (most are). Enjoy! Continue reading “Gluten Free Arrabiata”
Cannoli is an Italian dessert, tubes of crisp pastry, filled with sweetened ricotta cheese. Ricotta makes the most incredible pancakes. Also sweetened with sugar, these gluten free ricotta pancakes may be made extra-fluffy or traditional. Top them with a fruit puree or pure maple syrup. (Some traditional syrups contain gluten.) Serve your gluten free cannoli pancakes for breakfast or brunch. Your guests will not only be impressed, but they’ll be trying to guess the ingredients. The best part is that’ll never know they’re gluten free. They truly add a new definition to gluten free pancakes. Continue reading “Gluten Free Cannoli Pancakes”
A reader states that this cake is the perfect gluten free banana bread recipe. It calls for my homemade copycat Betty Crocker yellow cake mix recipe. However, readers explain that it’s better than the leading brand of cake mix. See for yourself! Plus you save so much money! Continue reading “Gluten Free Banana Bread Using Yellow Cake Mix”
Risotto is a sticky Italian rice. Rolling it up into a ball is a cinch once it chills. Stuffing the balls with Mozzarella cheese, that melts so well, makes it heavenly!
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Beets are trending as a vegetable this year. Why not mix things up a bit. Using them as you would a bellpepper, stuff your beets. This recipe for rice and raisin stuffed beets is just one delicious idea. Enjoy! Continue reading “Rice & Raisin Stuffed Beets”