As of April 28th of this year (2022), I have given up many food ingredients due to having terrible anxiety since March of this year. They include:
- Gluten
- Sugar
- Dairy
- Preservatives
- Caffeine
On the bright side, I’ve lost a lot of weight because of that. However, I might have made this brown rice-flour gnocchi before I went cold turkey on cutting the unhealthy ingredients out of my diet.
While I was limiting both dairy and wheat, but for digestive reasons, I decided to buy brown rice flour, and substitute that for all-purpose flour when I chose to make gnocchi from scratch. I even went crazy looking for it in my house… until I finally found it.
I used that as well as potatoes and eggs. Then I boiled the gnocchi and tasted it… only for it to taste bitter. Seriously – I could not eat it at all.
What I expected
I hoped for this gnocchi to taste just as good as the brown rice pasta in boxes. They come in the same kinds as regular pasta – except that the brown rice pastas have only brown rice and water. That is what I like about them, especially now, since I am still trying to reduce my anxiety.
My goal was to have this brown rice-flour gnocchi as a meal with tomato sauce. Above all, I expected to enjoy it.
What I’ve learned
Not everything will substitute well in recipes, whether they are desserts, meals, or anything.
There are gluten-free gnocchi recipes on the Internet. I remember one that called for sweet rice flour, but I don’t recall the name of the website.
Maybe the brown rice flour will work fine in other recipes. But from now on, if I want to make gluten-free gnocchi, I will find a recipe and follow it exactly, regardless of the ingredients.