Coeliac Disease – Page 5 – Clinical Alimentary

Gluten free, low lactose rosemary and olive bread

The seat in the wood has intrigued me since I stumbled across it, looks home made, old – it has certainly seen its fare share of winters, I guess. It doesn’t overlook a repose worthy view and the valley’s features are obscured by the wall when seated, but is certainly a welcome resting place from the steep climb of the valley side. A haunting melancholy spot in an old oak forest – to come home to a meal of rosemary and olive bread is certainly what’s needed to cheer up the spirit after today’s walk! Check out the recipe below.

Ingredients

450g gluten free self raising flour

1 teaspoon of xanthan gum

3 tablespoons of olive oil

15 green olives

salt

350 mls of lactose free milk

5g of rosemary leaves

Spray olive oil

2 eggs

50g of Parmesan cheese

Method

Wash your hands

Measure out the lactose free milk, add eggs and olive oil mix well, add salt to season.

Weigh out the gluten free flour and add the xanthan gum, and mix well.

Grate the Parmesan cheese and add 2/3 to the flour leaving the remainder to sprinkle on the finished bread.

Chop the rosemary finely and add to the flour.

Slice the olives and add 2/3 to the flour leaving the remainder to decorate the top of the bread mix before cooking.

Mix the Parmesan and olives into the flour, make a well in the centre of the flour mix and add the liquid ingredients.

Incorporate the liquid into the flour till everything is blended in.

The finished mix has a slightly sticky texture.

Oil a tray well and add the mix, wet your hands and smooth the surface and add a thumb print in lines down the bread as a decoration.

Spray the surface of the mix with olive oil

Add the remaining olives and cheese.

Cook for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the bread comes out clean at gas mark 6 or 220 degree centigrade.

Serves 8-10

For a low fodmap diet xanthan gum is possibly fermentable but is in the bread in very low levels (less than 0.5%) so most people should be OK to have a portion.

September 14, 2015September 14, 2015

Jules_GastroRDLeave a comment

Low Fodmap, Gluten free, low lactose pancakes

According to Wikipedia’s reference for Shrove Tuesday pancakes represent the sun in pagan mythology and eating them gave power, light and warmth of the sun. Pancakes were also a way of using up rich food before the fasting of lent in the Christian religion. Either way these delightful disks are a treat with sweet or savoury fillings and I like the association with the life giving sun when it has been so cold recently. Enjoy….

Ingredients

3 large eggs

50 mls Lactose free milk

100g of wheat free, gluten free flour

Pinch of salt

Spray oil

Method

Weight out the flour into a mixing bowl and add the eggs and a small pinch of salt.

Mix well and add enough milk to make a thin batter that coats the back of a spoon.

Pour the batter into a measuring jug.

Heat the frying pan and spray some oil – pour in enough batter to thinly coat the bottom of the pan and move the pan till the batter is even and pour off the excess back into the measuring jug.

Cook for 30 seconds maximum till dry and and flip over the pancake to cook the other side.

Serve warm with lemon juice and sugar (traditional way) or anything that takes your fancy!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

February 7, 2015

Jules_GastroRDLeave a comment

Gluten free, cow’s milk free rose pancakes for the breakfast diva!

Make these for a special occasion – gluten and cow’s milk free pancakes with an extra special flair for a birthday or wedding breakfast, of in fact you can make them plain for a tasty cooked alternative to kick start the day. I was asked to review an almond flour by a manufacturer Sukrin who donated the flour for the review. I liked the flour, it was tasty and worked well for the recipe. For other manufacturer recommendations such as suitable for low carbohydrate and paleo diets, this may well be the case, however I don’t advocate removing the carbohydrate totally from from your diet or having a very low intake of carbohydrate for healthy people – carbohydrate is food for the brain and fibre containing (or wholegrain) carbohydrates are prebiotic, food for your gut bacteria. If you are having gut symptoms changing your types of carbohydrate may be a better option that stopping eating carbohydrate altogether – just ensure you have a medical diagnosis first before making any changes to your diet and request a referral to a dietitian! We do now know that changes to diet can affect the variety and number of gut bacteria that live in your digestive tract and we do not yet know what the effects low carbohydrate diets have on long term digestive health. Our gut bacteria help with producing vitamin K and produce short chain fatty acids which help to keep the tract healthy. Most dietary changes Dietitians advocate are to identify a particular food intolerance culprit – this not only has benefits in reducing symptoms, but also means you can continue to have as varied a diet as possible.

You can taste the almond in these pancakes and they are very filling. Please also note whilst these pancakes are free of gluten and cow’s milk they are not suitable for the exclusion phase of the Low FODMAP diet in large amounts, almonds should be eaten in small amounts only (almond – as nuts – less than 10 at any one time.)

Ingredients

3 eggs

100g of almond flour

2 or 3 dessert spoons of rose syrup

200ml of hazelnut milk

a few drops of food colouring and edible gold glitter if you really want a decadent treat!

Spray oil to fry.

Mix the eggs into the almond flour, add the syrup and nut milk to the mixture then add the the food colour. Spray oil into the pan and using a piping bag pipe swirls of the mix into the pan and fry until the base is cooked and then finish the cooking in an oven at gas mark six for 5-10 minutes.

October 12, 2014

Jules_GastroRDLeave a comment

Low FODMAP fishcakes

Ingredients

1) Tartar Sauce

50 g Gherkin (check ingredients for Fodmaps)

2 teaspoons of capers

3 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise

5 g flat leaf parsley

2) 300 g white fish

650 g new potatoes

9 g fresh turmeric

2 teaspoons of cumin

1 tablespoon garlic flavoured oil

2 eggs

150 g of wheat free breadcrumbs

Method

Tartar sauce

Chop gherkins, capers and parsley and mix with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.

Mix and chill.

Fish cakes

Peel half of the potatoes and leave the others with peel on to add more fibre.

Boil in salted water till soft, mash with pepper.

Peel and chop turmeric and cook in the garlic flavoured oil with cumin.

Add the chopped fish, cook very lightly.

Combine fish and potato – mix gently to ensure large pieces of fish remain

Using a ring fill with fish and potato mix.

Beat the egg.

Coat each fish cake in egg then roll in breadcrumbs.

Lightly fry with spray oil and then finish cooking in the oven.

Serve.

June 5, 2014November 4, 2016

Jules_GastroRD1 Comment

Hot surf and turf wrap – Gluten and wheat free

Ingredients

2 Steaks

200 g of large prawns

Wheat & Gluten free seeded wrap

Gravy browning – a few drops

2 teaspoons cornflour

Spray oil for frying

2 carrots

Green salad leaves and 5 radishes for the salad bowl

Method

Trim fat from the Steak

Fry steak till browned using spray oil

Cover with water and add a few drops of gravy browning

Cover with a lid and cook till tender

Chop carrots into bite size pieces and spray with oil.

Cook the carrots for 20 minutes in the oven whilst the steak is cooking.

Remove steak from the pan to rest and add cornflour to the sauce to thicken, cook.

Cook prawns

Taking a wrap add ingredients including gravy and fold wrap over. Serve with green leaves and sliced radish.

Serves 2

*If you are following a Low FODMAP diet then check your wrap for other Low FODMAP ingredients – the wrap in the image contains concentrated fruit juice of unknown source so it is unsuitable for the Low FODMAP diet. You can also serve the filling on other gluten-free breads such as gluten-free pitta, gluten-free ciabatta or gluten-free french bread for example.

June 1, 2014

Jules_GastroRD1 Comment

Who said you can’t have a fun free from Easter?

These are dairy free, wheat free, gluten-free easter nests just the job if you have to avoid dairy and want to have at least a small amount of chocolate.