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Hi Joanne! For this recipe, if you don’t want to use buckwheat flour, you could try millet as a substitute or a combo of millet and oat flour. Chickpea flour is not my favourite, as I find it very dense, especially in bread recipes. Another option would be to increase the sorghum flour and the seed flour by 1/4 cup each and then add 1/2 cup of another flour like millet or oat. To make your first GF sourdough starter, you will need about 8 cups of flour. That is an estimate, as you will be feeding your starter up to 1 cup of flour per day (1/4-1/2 cup twice per day) until it is lively and active to use it in a bread recipe. How much of that will you be able to bake with once ready? Maybe 1 to 2 cups. That is an approximation based on the fact that when creating your first starter, you need to remove some starter on days 2 to 7. Whatever you have once your starter is ready is what you can bake with. You might also have a little bit of flour left at the point too. Then you will need to keep feeding your starter from that point on if you want to keep it alive. Although maintaining your starter will require much less flour and water. Let me know if you have any more questions before you start.
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Marianna – Thank you so much for your comment and rating! Have you baked another GF sourdough recipe yet? Do you bake GF for yourself? You could try this one: https://www.freshisreal.com/7-inch-sourdough-boule-gf-v/ and watch this video to help you: https://youtu.be/hnTmkqVnmiY?si=bdqDcDAevWtNWiYi. Let me know if you ever have any questions about other recipes on the blog.
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Hi Piper! You can experiment with this recipe for sure! Try it both ways so you can taste the difference for yourself! It’s a great way to learn. Or test half the dough with the starter overnight and the other with the starter added the next day. Have you baked a GF sourdough bread recipe yet? The 7-inch recipe is also great to play around with. https://www.freshisreal.com/7-inch-sourdough-boule-gf-v/
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Hi Jessica! This loaf was created to be free of rice, but you can use rice flour (white or brown) if you prefer. I do have other GF sourdough recipes that include rice flour, the 7-Inch Boule is a great example: https://www.freshisreal.com/7-inch-sourdough-boule-gf-v/ And if you want to sub out the buckwheat flour in that recipe, you can replace it with sorghum flour, millet flour, almond flour (if not allergic), or add more GF oat flour.
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