LIBERIAN BANANA BREAD

Esther S. (Q&A ID 15360)

The recipe calls for long grain rice to be ground to a flour stage.

Can you use rice flour instead? Will this negatively affect the bread?

thanks

Lynn C. (Q&A ID 662)

Hi Esther -

In order to keep true to the version we had in Liberia, we only tested this using freshly-ground rice, which is how it's traditionally made. So, unfortunately, we can't offer any suggestions on how to convert the recipe using rice flour. We think it could work, but we just don't have the ingredient conversions to give you without doing considerably more testing. If we were going to test this, we would probably start by weighing the freshly-ground rice and using an equivalent amount of rice flour and seeing how that baked up. Then being adjusting amounts of flour, baking powder/soda, bananas, oil, ginger (in case the flavor of freshly-ground rice provides more balance to the ginger than more-mild rice flour), etc. to compensate for the change in rice.

Best,

The Milk Street Cooking Team

Esther S. (Q&A ID 15360)

thank you for your help