How to make Oat Flour is extremely easy. All you need is rolled oats and a blender or food processor. It's high in fiber, B vitamins and naturally gluten free if certified.
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I love making my own Oat Flour, it's quick and easy and I love how it bakes into a chewy cookie or soft muffin, the texture is amazing. Tip: always use a recipe specifically formulated with oat flour, don't go substituting oat flour for any other flours. How to make Oat Flour is really quick, it takes less than 5 minutes.
Why you will love this recipe
- Quick and Easy: Literally 5 minutes or less is all it takes to blend up some oats into Oat Flour.
- Nutritious: Oats are healthy in general with lots of fiber, protein and minerals. When you freshly mill flour or blend it and use it right away you reap even more of those nutrients because it is fresh and has not had time to sit and oxidize or become rancid.
- Texture: The texture of Oat Flour in cookies is a nice dense chewy texture and in muffins it creates a nice dense, but light crumble texture. It really is delicious.
Recipes to use oat flour in:
- Healthy Cookie Dough
- Protein Cookie Dough Balls
- Oatmeal Raspberry Muffins
- Healthy Pumpkin Banana Muffins
- Zucchini Oat Muffins
- Apple Oat Muffins
- Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins (mini)
- Almond Butter Protein Balls
- Chocolate and Peanut Butter Protein Balls
Ingredients
Be sure to take a look at the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and quantities for How to make Oat Flour.
- Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: Only use rolled oats, do not use steel cut or quick oats. Also be sure it's certified gluten free if that is something important to you.
- Blender, Mini Blender or Food Processor: All 3 options will work fine as long as it is high powered enough to turn oats into flour.
How to make Oat Flour
Step 1: Place the oats in a blender or food processor and blend until it turns into a smooth powder. Shake the sides down as needed to make sure everything is blended into a fine flour.
Step 2: Use immediately for best taste and nutrients or you can store in a sealed container or jar for 3 months in a cool, dark place to prevent spoilage or freeze for 6 months in a freezer safe container.
Expert Tips
- Large Batch: If you are making a large batch do it in small portions (the portion size will depend on how big you blender or food processor is) but generally and average sized blender should be able to handle 1 to 1 ½ cups of oats.
- Pulse: To prevent the oats from getting hot and becoming gummy in the blender or food processor, pulse them until a flour is achieved. Then blend on high speed for about 20 seconds to get it really fine, but don't go much longer because the high speed will create heat and could start to warm the oats making them become gummy.
- Yield: One cup of rolled oats will yield about ¾ cups flour slightly packed but if not packed it will yield close to the 1 cup used. It is important to note that not all flours weigh the same that's why it's important not to swap them around in recipes.
Recipe FAQs
No, some people will say it's ok to swap them by weight and not volume (oat flour weighs less than all purpose flour so 1 cup of oat flour is not the same as 1 cup of all purpose flour) but I absolutely do not agree with that. AP flour and oat flour do not absorb liquid the same way so most likely the liquid ratio in the recipe would also need to change. I stringy recommend using a recipe that calls for oat flour and has been tested.
Technically you can, but I find rolled oats to be the best and they have more nutrients contained in them still.
Yes, especially freshly blended contains the most nutrients. It's packed with fiber, protein and minerals.
Yes, as long as the oats used were certified gluten free from any cross contamination.
One cup of rolled oats will yield about ¾ cups flour slightly packed but if not packed it will yield close to the 1 cup used. It is important to note that not all flours weigh the same that's why it's important not to swap them around in recipes.
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How to make Oat Flour
Equipment
- 1 high speed blender or food processor
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats (will yield ¾ cup slightly packed or almost 1 cup loosely measured in a dry cup.
Instructions
- Place the oats in the blender and pulse until broken up into rough flour. Knock down sides if needed, turn to high speed for about 20 seconds to get the flour really fine. Read notes.
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