Learn how to make oat flour at home from oats. Plus, we answer all your oats questions, like which oat I should use to make oat flour or how to store oat flour. But first, let’s answer some basic facts about oats to make sure you choose the right oats to make homemade oat flour.
Oats are healthy whole grains used in many healthy breakfast recipes to make overnight oats or pancakes using oat flour. Oats have an amazing nutrition profile. It’s not only a high-fiber grain but also loaded with plant-based protein and is ideal for preparing fulfilling plant-based breakfast recipes.
Are Oats A Grain?
Yes, oats are considered whole grains. Oat kernel contains 3 different parts: the oat bran, the oat germ, and the endosperm. In your local store, you can buy oats in 6 different forms:
- Steel-cut oats
- Rolled oats
- Quick-cooking oats
- Instant oats
- Oat bran
- Oat flour
What Is Oat Flour?
Oat flour is basically ground oats, flour made from old-fashioned oats or quick-cooking oats. Most oat flour recipes use one or the other type of oats. A few people use steel-cut oats that make an oat flour too high in fiber and, therefore very liquid absorbent.
How To Make Oat Flour At Home
It’s very easy to make oat flour at home. All you need is a blender or food processor. Next, choose between rolled oats – also called old-fashioned oats – or quick-cooking oats. Finally, add at least 3 cups of this ingredient to the high-speed blender and blend for about 45 seconds or until it turns into flour.
That’s it! You just made oat flour with one simple ingredient.
How To Make Oat Flour From Steel-cut Oats
To make oat flour from steel-cut oats, you must use a high-speed blender. In fact, steel-cut oats have a strong outer layer, and they won’t turn into oat flour in a food processor. Steel-cut also oats contain way more fiber than rolled oats.
So if you are making oat flour from steel-cut oats, it will be way more liquid absorbent than oat flour made from rolled oats. It means that in a recipe that calls for oat flour, you may have to use only 1/2 cup of oat flour made from steel-cut oats to reach the same texture.
How To Store Oat Flour
You can store homemade oat flour in a sealed glass mason jar, in the pantry, or in the fridge for up to 6 months. You can also freeze oat flour in zipped bags and thaw it the day before using it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Oat flour is a healthy flour made from oats, a whole grain high in plant-based proteins and fiber. Oat flour contains a high amount of soluble fiber that keeps the digestive system healthy and stabilizes blood sugar levels.
The nutrition fact for 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of oat flour made of rolled oats are:
– Calories: 307 kcal
– Protein: 11g
– Carbs: 55g (incl Fiber: 8g, Sugar: 1g, Net carbs: 47g)
– Fat: 5g
In comparison, all-purpose flour contains only 10 grams of protein, 2 grams of fiber, and 76 grams of carbs per 100 grams.
It means that all-purpose flour spikes blood sugar levels faster than oat flour and doesn’t have the fulfilling properties of oat flour.
Oat is a naturally gluten-free grain but is often contaminated in the facility where it’s processed because it uses the same machine as wheat-based products.
So if you make oat flour from oats that the manufacturer guarantees as gluten-free, your oat flour will be gluten-free.
In most recipes that call for oat flour, you can substitute oat flour for all-purpose flour with the same amount.
It means that 1 cup of oat flour can be replaced with 1 cup of all-purpose wheat flour or gluten-free flour blend.
No, oat flour is high in carbs and not keto-friendly. However, oat bran is keto-approved.
Recipes With Oat Flour
Below I listed my most popular oat flour recipes, including baked goods and how to make pancakes with oat flour!
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Oat Flour Recipe
Instructions
- Place 3 cups of old-fashioned oats, also called rolled oats, into the clean, dry jug of a high-speed blender. You can also use a food processor, but the process will take a bit longer to form oat flour.
- Blend on high speed, speed 6-7 of a Vitamix, for about 30 seconds. Stop, check the consistency. If it is coarse, keep blending to a maximum of 1 minute. It should form a fine flour, as seen in the picture above.
- For food processors, blend up to 1 minute 30 seconds on high speed.
Storage
- Store homemade oat flour in a sealed jar, in a cooled, dry, and dark place like the pantry, or the fridge. Place the oat flour in an airtight container. It can be plastic, metal, or glass. It stores well for up to 6 months and can be frozen and thawed the day before use.
Nutrition
Your friend, Carine
are oats measured before or after grinding into flour?
Since this recipe makes oat flour, you measure the oats before turning them into flour. However, you can make as much or as little as you want! It depends on what you want to do with the oat flour after.
Does store bought oat flour, such as Bob’s or Arrowood not work in baking recipes ? I already have a bag of each.
Absolutely, they do work but it’s cheaper to make your own using this tutorial.
Can I use Gerber organic oatmeal instead? I have it and my son hates it. So I’m thinking of using it as oat flour to make teething rusk
I checked online and it seems to be 100% made of wholegrain oat flour so it should work in any recipes calling for oat flour! Keep me posted! XOXO Carine