Gluten Free Thanksgiving Recipes

I am ready to get started on some Thanksgiving cooking! I’m not sure that it’s going to happen, but I thought I would at least start a list of the of good gluten free Thanksgiving recipes, mine and everyone else’s.

If you’d like to join in on this Gluten Free Thanksgiving Blog Event, you can submit a recipe post (just comment below), new or old, and I’ll add it to the list. Please add a link to your blog post directing your readers to this roundup post. For my non-blogging readers, feel free to post your favorite Thanksgiving recipes in the comments. I’ll take them out and add them to a separate “Readers’  Thanksgiving Recipes” post and link to them from here.

We’re planning to share Thanksgiving with John’s family this year. David is very excited to see his grandparents and aunt and uncle. And I know that they are all excited to see David and Grant (who’s already 7 months old and scooting and rolling around).  Baby #3 is due in April and I’m exhausted so who knows how much cooking will actually get done. I’d like to work on my yeast roll recipe some more, but it may have to wait a few years =)


Gluten free Recipes:

Gluten Free Cream of Mushroom Soup

Gluten Free Gravy
Gluten Free Stuffing
Gluten Free Cornbread
Lentil/Rice Shepherd’s Pie
Black Bean Stuffed Mushrooms (veg)

Thanksgiving Sides:
Curried Carrot Soup
Dad’s Brown Rice Recipe
Roasted Potatoes and Carrots
Cranberry Glazed Carrots
Homemade Cranberry Sauce

Thanksgiving Desserts:
Gluten Free Pumpkin Souffle with Homemade Caramel Sauce
Gluten Free Pumpkin Custard (vegan)

Thanksgiving Leftovers:
Turkey Sandwich with Cranberry and Arugula

Tutorials:
How to make Gluten Free Cream of Mushroom Soup

Gluten Free Waffles

Our family has found a new favorite weekend breakfast – gluten free waffles! You all know that we’ve been on the gluten free diet for years now, so that first bite of homemade waffles was absolute heaven!  We stuffed ourselves!

The recipe is a  conversion of the “Basic Waffles” recipe in Joy of Cooking. The only change that I made was to swap my gluten free flour mix for the all-purpose flour used in the original recipe. The original recipes lets you adjust the butter from as little a 4 Tbsp for a low-fat waffle to 16 Tbsp for a super yummy, my mouth is in bliss waffle.  We’ve tried 8 and 16 Tbsp and 16 is definitely the way to go.

Gluten Free Waffles

1 3/4 cups all-purpose gluten free flour mix
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt

3 large eggs
16 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
1 1/2 c. milk (soy, cow, rice, etc)

Cooking Directions:
1. Mix first four ingredients together in large mixing bowl.
2. Beat the eggs together until frothy. Add the milk and stir again.
3. Slowly pour the melted butter into the egg/milk mixture. Stir constantly to prevent the eggs from cooking.
4. Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until all of the flour is wet. You don’t have to get all of the lumps out.
5. Pour the batter onto a hot waffle iron. Follow the affle iron manufacturer’s directions for cooking. For ours we use 1/2 c. batter and let the waffle’s cook until there is no more steam coming out.

Additional Notes:
1. Let your eggs and milk come to room temperature. If the eggs and milk are cold, then they will resolidify the melted butter when you mix them together.
2. These waffles are not sweet, so you can add sweet or savory toppings to them. You could also 1/4 – 1/2 cup of raisins, cheese, bacon, nuts, sliced bananas, grated coconut to the batter before cooking.

Starting a Gluten Free Diet: Free Menu Plan

Free Menu Plan: As promised, here is a free menu plan for the first week of your gluten free diet. The menu ended up being chicken-centric, which I apologize for. I was trying to pick recipes that wouldn’t require any ingredients that aren’t widely available, and it wasn’t until I finished that I realized I’d only picked chicken recipes. Hopefully you can manage it for one week, or substitute other meats in if you want =) Oh, and all the recipes are casein optional!

Soy Sauce Substitute: If you can’t find gluten free soy sauce or tamari
, use an equivalent amount of the following mixture in the Cashew Nut Chicken recipe:

3 Tbsp beef bouillon* (or 9 cubes) – I use Better than Bouillon
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
2 tsp maple syrup
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 pinch black pepper
1 pinch garlic powder”
1.5 c water

*please do read the label


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