• 1 ½ cups Casalare Pancake/Pikelet mix
• 3 tablespoons castor sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 cup milk
• ¾ cup water

Add pancake mix, sugar and egg to a bowl and combine. Add 1 cup of milk and stir well, adding water slowly until you get the consistency that you desire.

Can add more milk and less water, if desired.

For pikelets, add less milk/water so the mixture is thicker.

• 250g Changs Rice Noodles
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 2 cloves garlic crushed
• 350g chicken mince
• 1 red capsicum sliced
• 50ml lime juice
• 2 tbsp Changs Soy Sauce (Tamari)
• 3 tbsp Changs Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce (Tamari)
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 2 bunches bok choy
• Lime wedges to serve

Place noodles in a large bowl, cover with hot water for 5 minutes and drain. Heat oil in a wok or large fry pan and stir fry onions and garlic until onions are soft. Add the chicken mince, stir fry until cooked. Add capsicum, noodles, juice, sauces and bok choy to the pan and stir fry until heated through. Serve with lime wedges.

Ingredients:

• 1 pkt gluten free plain sweet biscuits (try Naturally Good Coconut Crunch cookies)
• 50g butter
• 4 eggs
• ¾ cup castor sugar
• Juice from 3 lemons plus zest from 2
• 1 cup cream

Method

• Grease a 24cm oven proof pie dish.
• Preheat oven to 150 degrees.
• Finely crumb gluten free biscuits. Put in pie dish.
• Melt butter. Pour over crumbed biscuits and combine.
• Press crumbs into the sides and base of the pie dish, with the back of a spoon, to form the crust.
• In a bowl, whisk eggs and gradually add sugar, lemon juice, zest and cream.
• Pour filling into crust.
• Put in oven for 50-60 minutes until filling just set but still a little wobbly in the middle.
• Allow to cool slightly before serving.
• Sprinkle with gluten free icing sugar.

Can also be served cold.

Note: You can also use gluten free plain chocolate biscuits crushed (such as Freedom Foods Daydream Chocolate biscuits) to form the bases/crusts of chocolate desserts or cheesecakes.

Ingredients:

• 500g mince beef
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 small green capsicum chopped finely
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 3/4 cup gluten free crumbs
• 1 tsp dried mixed herbs
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• Salt and pepper
• Gluten free plain flour
• Olive oil

So you are having someone over for dinner who needs to eat gluten free. What do you cook? What does gluten free mean? This article provides some of the answers for you.

Most importantly, gluten is in all foods and products containing wheat, barley, rye or oats, so these foods need to be avoided. This obviously means the standard products made from wheat flour such as breads, pastas, biscuits. Note, there are many gluten free substitutes for these foods.
However, gluten may also be contained in foods that you may not expect, such as some brands of corn flour. In order to determine if a product contains gluten, you need to read the ingredients list. It is mandatory in Australia for ingredients containing gluten and other allergens to be specified. The main things to remember when reading labels and ingredient lists are:

• If a product is labelled “gluten free”, this claim overrides the ingredient list and you can be sure that it is gluten free
• If the ingredient list contains any mention of wheat, barley, rye or oats, this food contains gluten. This includes ingredients such as wheat starch, wheaten flour and those with wheat in brackets, eg. maltodextrin (wheat)
• The exception to rule above is that the ingredient “wheat glucose syrup” is OK as it has been so highly processed that it has no detectable gluten
• Malt products like milo, some mayonnaises or malt vinegar, contain barley and therefore, gluten

When in doubt, leave it out.