Gluten Free Recipes

Gluten Free Recipes

Gluten Free Turkey/Chicken Noodle Soup

Carrie

This is a great one to prepare in the crock pot and have at a pot-luck!  It’s also great to do at home.  Feel free to change the aromatics to your liking.

Ingredients:

Put water, bullion cubes, onion, celery, salt and pepper and Turkey or Chicken in crock pot.  Cook on low until meat is done (about 4-6 hours, you can cook longer if you need to leave it all day while at work).  Once meat is cooked, shred or cut up meat.  Add rice noodles about 5-10 minutes before you are ready to serve.  You can leave them in longer but they will soak up all the juices!  That’s it!  Simple, tasty and easy for pot-lucks or at home on a busy school night!

Stove-top Option

Follow directions above but put all ingredients in a large pot.  I like to cut up the raw chicken or turkey so that it cooks faster.  This method can be done in about 20-30 minutes!

Gluten Free Fried Chicken

Carrie

Today I tried to make my Grandmother’s Fried Chicken gluten free and it was a great success!  You couldn’t even tell the difference!  It came out very crispy and juicy on the inside.

Ingredients:

Mix about 1/2 gluten free flour and 1/2 gluten free bread crumbs in a flat bowl for coating the chicken.  Salt and Pepper the chicken and dip into the flour mixture.  When the chicken is all coated, heat butter in a non-stick pan on medium low.  Place chicken in once hot.  Cover and fry, turning every 4-5 minutes.  Add extra butter if necessary.  Cook about 20 minutes until done and not pink in the middle.  Drain on paper towels.  That’s it!  The key to crispy chicken is to keep the heat hot enough that the butter doesn’t get absorbed too much, but not so hot that the butter burns.

Gluten Free Ice Cream Cake by Larry’s Dawg House!

Carrie

So when our oldest had his Birthday in January, I was determined to find a way to get him a great cake that was also gluten free.  Our great friends at Larry’s Dawg House of Athens Ohio was very kind to let me look at all of the ingredients in all of the items they put into their ice cream cake.  To my joy, the only thing I knew that had gluten in it was the cookie crumbs they put in the middle.  All the other items like the ice cream and cold fudge didn’t have any suspicious ingredients in it.  They were great to substitute the cookie crumbs for Heath bar crumbs instead.

What was the result?  A completely awesome ice cream cake!  It tasted better than the original.  It was like eating a Heath blizzard in cake form!  I had several slices and didn’t get sick and neither did he.  I’ve just recently found out one of his classmates who also can’t eat gluten had it as her ice cream cake for her birthday and she had no issues either!

So just talk to the great Guys and Gals at Larry’s Dawg House and ask them to substitute in Heath bar instead!  You may want to double check the ingredients in each item each time just in case their supplier changed ingredients or in case they changed suppliers.  I’m so happy though to be able to get a safe ice cream cake for us!

Here’s a picture of a recent cake they made for us Gluten Free!

gluten_free_cake

Gluten Free Pizza Bread

Carrie

When we run out of Udi’s Pizza Crusts, or are running low on time, making Pizza Bread in the toaster oven is super quick and simple!  If you don’t have a toaster oven you could finish it off in the regular oven.  I love having a toaster oven though for when you want to bake something small and don’t want to waste the energy heating up your big oven.

The key to Pizza Bread is to first Toast the bread on a light-medium setting.  I like to use Udi’s Gluten Free Bread for this.  You want it crispy but not too dark since you’ll be baking it later.  While it’s toasting, get any toppings out you want.  Once toasted, spread with gluten free Pizza Sauce (I like Mid’s and have never had a reaction with it), top with Cheese and any other toppings.  Bake at 350 for about 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.  That’s it!

Easy Home Made Gluten Free Bread Crumbs

Carrie

I have a Chicken Casserole that we just can’t do without at Holiday time that has seasoned bread crumbs on top.  Finding Gluten free bread crumbs locally is difficult and expensive.

We don’t particularly care for the heals in our bread so they are perfect to make bread crumbs from!  Every time we’re done with a loaf of Udi’s Gluten Free bread I throw the 2 heals in the freezer!  Very quickly, I have plenty of heals to make crumbs from!

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound Gluten Free Heals broken into pieces
  • 2 tablespoons dried oregano or thyme
  • 2 tablespoons dried basil or parsley
  • 2 teaspoons salt, or to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper, or to taste

Preheat oven to 300. Process bread in food processor until desired consistency.  Place crumbs on baking sheet and bake for about 10 to 15 minutes.  Stir occasionally to let the moisture out and get the crumbs evenly baked.  I find the gluten free bread retains the moisture pretty well during this process.  Once bread is completely dried out take out of oven and add spices.  Allow to completely cool before storing in a zip lock bag.  They should keep for about 6 months if completely cooled before storing.

 

Gluten Free Pizza – Tastes like Delivery!

Carrie

One thing you might miss when going gluten free is Delivery Pizza!  This is actually pretty simple to do at home if you just make one simple tweak to how you normally make pizza at home!

First I start with Udi’s Gluten Free Crust.  I can find this at our local Kroger’s for a pretty reasonable price (almost the same as gluten crust!)


Next I use a very simple, jarred pizza sauce.  By simple I mean something with very small number and natural ingredients.   I like to use Mid’s pizza sauce.  It’s usually just a few dollars in our Krogers.


Next you can put on any toppings you like.

Here’s how I made the pizza below.

Delivery tasting Gluten Free Pizza

Delivery tasting Gluten Free Pizza

Ingredients:

  • 1 Udi’s Gluten Free Pizza Crust
  • 1-3 tbs Mid’s Pizza Sauce
  • Shredded Cheese (sometimes I use Mexican style…no seasonings.., sometimes just mozzarella)
  • Hormel Pepperoni
  • Fresh Green Pepper
  • Canned Mushrooms (I prefer canned to fresh for some reason!)
  • Cooked Bacon (I just use leftover I’ve frozen or refrigerated)
  • Garlic Powder to taste (optional)
  • Onion Powder to taste (optional)

Preheat oven to 375.  Layer pizza sauce, garlic & onion powder, cheese, then toppings onto gluten free pizza crust.  Bake for 7-10 minutes.  Once cheese looks nice and melted and toppings hot, switch your oven to broil for 1-2 minutes.  It’s important to keep an eye on the pizza at this point!  Watch until the cheese really starts to bubble and the edges of the pizza turn a golden brown.

Optionally: When you get ready to switch to broil, add a sprinkle of fresh cheese on top to help hold all the toppings together.

Ultimate Taste Test!  So for our oldest’s birthday party, I made these Gluten Free Pizzas for all the kids.  They were simpler with just cheese or pepperoni since that’s what they preferred.  I got lots of compliments from the 10-11 year olds on the pizza!

Gluten Free Grilled Cheese

Carrie

Such a simple thing but Grilled Cheese is something you might crave when going gluten free!  Luckily, I actually think that Gluten Free Grilled Cheese is better than regular grilled cheese!

Our favorite bread in the house is Udi’s Gluten Free Bread. The great thing about their bread is that it has all these nice holes in it!  This is perfect for grilled cheese!  All that cheese seeps into the holes and makes it so gooey!  Most highly processed breads that are full of gluten are so processed and manufactured that they take out these nice small-medium holes and have tiny ones that the cheese can’t get into.

Ingredients:

  • 2 pats of butter
  • 2 slices of your favorite cheese (gluten free!)
  • 2 slices of your favorite gluten free bread

Heat 1 pat of butter on low-medium, place bread, cheese, then bread and then the last pat of butter on top.  Cook for a few minutes until the bottom piece of bread is nice and golden brown.  Flip sandwich over taking care that the butter on top ends up on bottom.  Cook for a few more minutes until gold brown and cheese is melted.  Enjoy!

 

HomeMade Hash-browns – Naturally Gluten Free

Carrie

On weekends, and sometimes on week nights, I like to whip up a batch of home-made hash-browns.  It’s actually pretty simple and the kids love it!

Ingredients:

  • 3-4 small potatoes diced up (the smaller the faster it will cook)
  • 1/2-1 small onion diced
  • Salt & Pepper to taste
  • Green pepper (optional)
  • 2-3 tbs. Olive Oil (sometimes I use bacon grease or sausage grease if I just made those)

Sauté onion in oil until translucent preferably in a cast iron skillet for extra flavor.  Add green pepper next until a little softened.  Add remaining ingredients.  Stir every 5 minutes, often enough to let the potatoes start to brown but not burn.  Continue for about 15 minutes depending on the size of the potato dices and until they are done.  Taste test and add a bit of salt an pepper if needed.

Black Beans and Rice – Naturally Gluten Free

Carrie

This is a great side dish that’s naturally gluten free!  It’s simple and the hubby loves this one!

Ingredients:

  • 1 can Black Beans undrained
  • 1 can tomatoes (I like petite diced)
  • 1 cup or so rice
  • 1/2 small onion finely chopped
  • 1-2 garlic cloves
  • 1-2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tbs olive oil
  • Salt to taste

Sweat onions and garlic in a sauce pan with the olive oil on low to medium low.  Once translucent, add the black beans, tomatoes  and oregano. Cook for 7-10 minutes to get everything hot and the flavors extracted.  If you are using instant rice add this in the last few minutes for the time allotted on the instructions for it.  I prefer to use freshly made rice in a rice cooker or leftover rice I have in the fridge.  I just add it at the last minute to warm up and soak up some of the sauce.  Add salt to taste at the end and you’re done!

TIP: Add in cooked chicken at the last minute to make a complete meal or your meat of choice!

Gluten Free Home Made Spaghetti

Carrie

I’ve adapted this from what my Grandmother did over the years and now use Gluten Free Pasta to make it safe for us.  I never measured anything though for this, as that’s how my Grandmother did it, so I’m giving approximate measurements and you can tweak the spices to your liking!

I can usually have this on the dinner table in about 20-25 minutes from start to finish!  Who needs that jarred stuff!

Gluten Free Spaghetti

Gluten Free Spaghetti

Meat Sauce Ingredients:

  • About 1.5 pounds Ground Beef (turkey, etc, you can even skip this!)
  • 1 can Tomato Sauce
  • 1 can of mushrooms
  • About 1/3 cup water
  • About 1/2 small yellow onion chopped fine
  • About 2 stalks celery
  • About 1-2 cloves of garlic
  • About 1-2 teaspoons dried oregano to taste
  • Salt & Pepper to taste

For the pasta, my favorite is Schar Pasta.  It’s texture is very close to ‘regular’ pasta and the kids don’t even know the difference!  I like to get this pack of 5 on Amazon as the price is great and I always have enough pasta around then. Schar Naturally Gluten-Free Spaghetti, 12-Ounce Packages (Pack of 5)

First start the water to boil while putting together the sauce.  Heat a large frying pan, add a layer of salt and pepper.  Add the ground beef when it’s hot and brown the beef.  I like to more add salt and pepper onto the ground beef while it’s cooking and before I turn it.  Once brown, drain away any fat in the pan.  Add the can of tomato sauce and the water.  Use as much or as little water depending on how thick you like it.  It will cook down and get thicker so keep that in mind.  Also add the celery, mushrooms, garlic, onion and oregano.  Cover and allow this to simmer on low.

Usually by this time the water is boiling so you can add the pasta and cook (the one I get takes 11 minutes).  Be sure to follow the directions on the package and taste test before deciding the pasta is done!  I like to taste test the sauce as the pasta is cooking and add more salt or pepper as needed or any of the other spices.

Serve with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.  We’ve been skipping the packaged stuff here because of the risk of fillers and just getting a wedge of Parmesan cheese and grating it ourselves.  This is working well and the kids love putting it on their spaghetti!

When I make this for dinner, the dinner table is quiet because the kids are gobbling this up!

TIP:  Double the recipe and freeze or refrigerate the leftovers!  This sauce warms back up very nicely.

TIP: I like to keep dried chopped onion and dried celery flakes on hand in case I don’t have either of these fresh.  They are a good substitute but you get the full flavor if you cook with these as fresh vegetables.

Note: I have tried fresh mushrooms before and it just didn’t turn out as good.  There’s something about the salty canned mushrooms!  You can try fresh if you like though!

 

Enjoy!

Gluten Free Spaghetti

Gluten Free Spaghetti