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I struggle to make gluten free bread just right. Any tips?

Be the Change Through Plant-Based Diets

Dan Marek - Be the Change Through Plant-Based Diets

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This event was on October 26, 2022

In this ACTE/Rouxbe presentation, Chef Dan Marek will talk about Plant-Based Diets and how they can lead to a healthier lifestyle by simply eating more plants. He will show a few techniques to help even the most seasoned chefs think differently about how they cook and small changes that can make a big difference. Afterwards we will open up the discussion on any questions the audience might have on plant-based trends in the industry.

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Question

Andrea Ryan

I struggle to make gluten free bread just right. Any tips?

Answer

Whoo. That's a big one for our last question. Okay, so gluten-free breads, depending on what type you're making there's a wide variety of different flowers to be able to make them and typically the best gluten-fread gluten-free breads are made by combining different kinds of flowers to get the result that you're looking for, you know from combining something like a Tapioca star to a little bit of garbanzo, you know to Oat flowers. There's a wide variety of things out there to be able to make that happen. Now if you're a ruby member you can go into some of our Live Events Char Nolan has been great at this. You can also go to Char Nolan's Instagram account who is fantastic when I was building the plant-based Pro. I wanted to make sure we had a gluten-free alternative for every recipe. We did it, didn't it and Char was the person I went to be able to make that happen. So I'd highly recommend reaching up to Char Nolan for that. That's oh and ol-a-n when she's a fantastic person too. So I would probably reach out to her with a specific breads your current trying to recreate because she's a really really good at them.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.