May I add whole wheat flour/Chickpea flour to garlic chicken soup?

May I add whole wheat flour/Chickpea flour to garlic chicken soup? - Cook adding flour into baking form while preparing meal

http://www.food.com/recipe/chicken-garlic-soup-32282

They haven't mentioned which flour are they using.
Because I am health conscious, may I add whole wheat flour/Chickpea flour to garlic chicken soup?

What will be the side effects?



Best Answer

This gets simple when you consider what the flour is used for:

You create a roux, which then thickens the soup. The starch in the flour is altered during the cooking process and then binds the liquid.

You can use any kind of flour that contains starch, but depending on the starch-to-other-components ratio, you might have to use a bit more for the same thickness. Unlike for baking (gluten!), chickpea flour will work fine in a roux. Also, a non-white flour might be visually less appealing because the external parts of the grain may give the soup a greyish or speckled appearance. Note that the less refined your flour is, the more it might influence the taste of the soup. But whether this matters obviously is a question of personal taste.

The choice is yours:
A few tablespoons of white flour in a pot of soup probably won't compromise your dietary regimen, but it's probably not worth going out to buy a whole bag for a single use.




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Can you use wheat flour soup?

How to Make Wheat Flour Soup. Dry roast the flour till golden brown on a low flame. When the flour is done, add water stirring continuously so that no lumps are formed. Bring to a boil.

Can you substitute whole wheat flour for all purpose flour in baking?

The greater percentage of whole wheat flour you substitute in your white flour recipe, the more pronounced its effect will be. Substitute just 25% whole wheat, you probably won't notice any difference at all in flavor, color, or texture.

How do you get gluten out of flour?

Through a process called centrifugation the major constituents of the flour are separated. The starch and other constituents dissolve, but the gluten, which is not water soluble, does not. Once starch and gluten are separated by centrifugation, the gluten is washed thoroughly and dried.



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