pizza and ravioli

[Guest guest]

has anyone tried to make a pizza dough recipe (from either Grain free

Gourmet or Healing Little Tummies) and form and fill it in a ravioli

shape and deep fry it? before I go thru the experiment I just wanted

to know if anyone has any wisdom to lend me.

thanks. by the way, I have allowed my son (3.4 yrs) to have a little

rice flour in his baked goods and the occasional rice pasta. Once in a

while he can have about 3 french fries. I have not seen any bad

reactions or D. Can I assume that his gut is fairly well healed? He's

been on SCD for 2 years now.

thanks for any info on the ravioli.

, mom to broderick, ASD, SCD 2 years.

[Guest guest]

At 11:48 AM 9/21/2007, you wrote:

>has anyone tried to make a pizza dough recipe

>(from either Grain free Gourmet or Healing

>Little Tummies) and form and fill it in a ravioli shape and deep fry it?

I've tried a couple of the nut-bread / crust

recipes. The problem is filling the dratted

things. If you get the dough thin enough that it

isn't all dough, the filling pops out through it.

The reason is that wheat flour doughs have

gluten, which we are avoiding, which is a rubbery

matrix and contains the filling, kind of like a

piece of balloon. So-called gluten-free products

substitute gums or other SCD illegals for the gluten, which is why THEY work.

The almond flour dough is just too soft and not

glu-ey enough to hold together around the

filling. It's also why substituting almond flour

in a classic pasta recipe won't work. Classic

pasta requires the development of the natural gluten to hold together.

As I was typing this, it occurred to me that it

should be possible to make squares or rounds of

filling, and dip them in whipped egg white (or

possibly the souffle bread recipe), the way one

might do for chiles rellenos, and then fry. I

haven't tried this, as it just occurred to me, but it's a possibility.

— Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

---I too am trying to come up with a way to make noodles or ravioli

SCD legal. I was going to try using black bean flour since black bean

flour should be a little " starchier??? than almond flour. I also

wondered if adding gelatin to the dough mix might do something to make

it hold together better?? I'll let you know if it works as soon as i

get around to trying it.

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