How to Make Oatmeal Flour

Add more oatmeal to your diet by incorporating oatmeal flour in your recipes.

Oatmeal flour is another name for ground oatmeal. The health benefits of eating oatmeal are well know. Stabilizing blood sugar and promoting weight loss, lowering cholesterol and reducing coronary heart disease are just a few, according to the Archives of Internal Medicine. Wheat flour can be partially replaced with oatmeal flour in most baking recipes. Oatmeal flour, or oat flour, provides a dense, nutty flavor, and making your own oatmeal flour is simple and inexpensive.

Things You'll Need

• Old-fashioned rolled oats -- any quantity
• Food processor
• Flour sifter

Instructions

1. Place the oatmeal in the food processor, filling the processor only half-full.

2. Process the oatmeal until it is ground into a powder-like consistency.

3. Separate the powder from any gritty particles that were not fully ground by shaking the oat flour in a sifter.

4. Discard the gritty particles, and repeat steps 1 to 3 until you have processed all of your oats.

Tips & Warnings

• When stored in a sealed container, oat flour will keep for three months in the pantry or six months in the freezer.

• Because oatmeal flour does not contain gluten, baked goods do not rise as much and might have a tendency not to hold together as well, but the added health benefits of oatmeal instead of wheat flour make the adjustments worthwhile.

• When substituting any ingredient in a recipe, it is best to begin by substituting half the quantity first and then increasing the proportion substituted based on the results.

References

• Learninginfo: Six Health Benefits of Eating Oatmeal
• W H Foods: Oats