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How can I keep my farro from becoming gummy when I cook it?

Real Talk on Recipe Testing

Fran Costigan - Real Talk on Recipe Testing

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This event was on May 14, 2024

What steps are necessary to develop and deliver recipes that consistently yield successful and reproducible results for your audience, whether that is family, friends, followers, clients? Get a notebook and a scale and begin with a reliable recipe. Observe carefully and then you can develop your own showstoppers! Join Chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe Director of Vegan Pastry for an informative event with many takeaways for success.

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Question

Victoria Mulligan

How can I keep my farro from becoming gummy when I cook it?

Answer

I don't know if you're cooking your grain in an amount of water and then waiting for the water to just, um, evaporate completely. I tend to cook my grains, quinoa, for example, and rice in the way that I cook pasta. So I have a big pot of water at, at a boil, and I cook the grain until it's done and then drain it right away and put it into a large con, a large dish, and then, um, just kind of fan it. And it, and it shouldn't be gummy when you do that. That's the, it's the starch that's making it gummy. So you might wanna try cooking it for a shorter period of time or cooking it in more water.

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

FranCostigan.com

Fran Costigan is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Trained at the New York Restaurant School and Natural Gourmet Institute, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching over 20 years ago. A lifelong chocoholic and long time vegan, Fran’s latest book, Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy Free Desserts, (Running Press 2013) is for all who madly, deeply love chocolate desserts, whether or not dietary considerations are an issue. Her previous cookbook, More Great Good Dairy-Free Desserts Naturally (Book Publishing Company 2006) is the basis of the Costigan Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive®. For more information, www.francostigan.com.