In this post, we’ll talk about how to make rice flour to use in various recipes.All you need is raw rice and a powerful blender!  Why Make Your Own Rice Flour? Rice flour is an ingredient that we use often in recipes like Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Goh), Taro Cake, and Nian Gao (Chinese Sweet Rice Cake).You may also need to use it in other Asian recipes or even gluten-free recipes.

It’s a staple in our pantry—right next to the all-purpose flour, bread flour, and cake flour!  That said, while it is readily available at our local Chinese grocery store, we know that many of you may not have access to an Asian market near you.  You may also be in a situation where you want to make a recipe using rice flour, but simply do not have it on hand. Well, as long as you have a powerful blender and some rice, you can actually make your own anytime you need it! While white rice flour is most commonly used, you can use any type of rice you like—brown rice, black rice, or red rice.  You could even make another common ingredient we use all the time—sweet rice flour, or glutinous rice flour! (i.e.made from sticky rice, which we use in recipes like Bill’s Fried Sesame Balls or Wife Cakes.  Recipes using rice flour Here are some of our favorite recipes that you can make with this homemade rice flour! Lo Bak Goh (萝卜糕) – Dim Sum Radish/Turnip Cake Taro Cake (芋头糕) – Buttery and crispy! Nian Gao (年糕) – Chinese Sweet Rice Cake Bak Tong Goh (白糖糕) – White

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