How to Make Oat Flour (plus recipes!) | Ambitious Kitchen (2024)

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What is the best way to make oat flour? ›

Making homemade oat flour couldn't be easier! All you need is whole rolled oats (not steel-cut or quick oats) and a food processor or high-speed blender. Place the oats in the blender or food processor and blend until they form a fine flour, stopping to stir occasionally. That's it!

Quaker Oat Flour can be substituted for all-purpose wheat flour at a 1:1 ratio by weight. However, most home bakers use volume instead of weight to measure ingredients. Since Quaker Oat Flour is lighter than wheat flour, we recommend 1¼ cup leveled unpacked oat flour to replace 1 cup leveled unpacked all-purpose flour.

Rice Flour

Rice flour is typically ground extremely fine, making it a great oat flour substitute for baking purposes. You'll also benefit from the iron and B vitamins in rice flour. Substitution is 1:1.

*Steel-cut oats will yield four cups of oat flour. Oat flour doesn't contain gluten, so you may need to add other ingredients (like baking powder/soda in combination with apple cider vinegar or lemon juice) to help create a light and fluffy texture.

Health Benefits of Oats

The recommended diet for weight loss is rich in dietary fiber. Oat flour is rich in fiber which is an incredible carbohydrate because it increases metabolism, triggers your CCK hormone that signals to your brain that you're full, absorbs fat, and promotes regular bowel movements.

Oatmeal and oat flour are identical in nutritional makeup and flavor because they're made from the same initial ingredient: whole oat groats. The main difference between meal and flour, though, is how finely the original ingredient has been ground. Meal is coarser and has more texture, while flour is pure powder.

You can substitute oat flour for up to about a quarter of the flour in a bread recipe, also slightly increasing the amount of yeast in the recipe to help the bread rise. Oat flour is best used in baked goods that don't need gluten to rise, such as quick breads and cookies.

Yes, so much cheaper! You can buy rolled oats at the store for minimal cost and great a ton of oat flour quickly. This is so much less expensive than buying oat flour at the store.

Oat flour retains its quality for approximately one to two years when stored properly under ideal conditions. This typically means keeping it unopened in a cool, dry, dark place.

It depends on your dietary needs and goals. Oat flour is a good source of fiber and nutrients and is suitable for those with nut allergies, while almond flour is higher in protein and healthy fats, and is low-glycemic, making it better for low-carb, keto, and paleo diets.

Is oat flour good for diabetics? ›

Oat flour

Oat flour is not only a good source of fiber and protein but also contains beta glucan, a specific type of fiber that has been shown to decrease blood sugar levels in people with diabetes ( 9 , 10 ). Oat flour has a mild, nutty flavor and can help soften baked goods while giving them a chewy, unique texture.

Fill your blender or food processor up to half-way with oats. Keep in mind that one cup old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats yields about one cup flour, whereas one cup steel-cut oats yields about two cups flour. Blend until the oats have turned into a fine flour, about 20 seconds to 1 minute.

Making oat flour is very simple! It requires just 1 ingredient, 1 blender, and 5 minutes. Simply add rolled oats to a blender and blitz for about 15 seconds until you have a fine, powdery flour.

Equivalent: One cup of rolled oats yields about one cup of flour (100g). Oats processed in a high speed blender produces a finer, more powder-like flour. Because of this, I prefer blender milled flour in baked goods when compared to a food processor milled flour.

Sometimes you can use oat flour on its own, like in these chewy cookies. But in most baking recipes, oat flour needs to team up with another flour and/or starch. A blend of stickier flours helps balance oats' starchiness.

The entire oat is used to make oat flour, so it boosts the nutrition of whole grains. For example, a serving of oat flour of 100g of oats flour contains 3g of fibre, 4g of protein, calcium, iron, potassium, thiamin, and riboflavin. Overall, oat flour offers significantly more nutritional benefits than regular flour.

Ground oats and oat flour are both made from whole oats, but they differ in how they're processed and the resulting texture they have. Ground oats are stone ground oat goats. They have a coarser texture and are not as finely ground as oat flour. Oat flour takes oat groats and processes them into a fine powder.

Compared to almond flour, oat flour is higher in carbohydrates but lower in both calories and fat. Oats are a good source of soluble fiber. A 2017 study indicated that beta-glucan in oats helps lower cholesterol and the risk of diabetes.