Please let me introduce you to timtana, a new gluten free whole grain flour. It is dark and handsome. A flour with substance.
Montana Gluten Free Processors are working with the Celiac Sprue Association, who called for volunteers to develop recipes for timtana flour. I like to try new foods and answered the call. They sent me a free #3 bag of timtana flour to work with.
Timtana flour is ground from a perennial grain, the plants grow every year without needing to be planted each spring. Most other flours are from annual grains.
Timtana has more protein than amaranth, buckwheat, oat, millet, quinoa, rice, sorghum, and teff flours. Timtana is 5 grams of protein per 1/4 cup. The other flours are 3 or 4 grams. Refined starches, such as tapioca or corn, have zero protein.
Timtana flour also has more fiber than the above gluten free flours, 5 grams per 1/4 cup. Compare that with 1 to 4 grams for other flours. Refined starches have zero fiber too.