What Is Graham flour and How Can I Use It?

Here's everything worth knowing about graham flour and how to pick it, what it is, how to store it, and what to use instead, plus 24 recipes to cook tonight.

Recipes using graham flour

There are 24 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Sour Dough Waffles or Pancakes

Sourdough waffles or pancakes: an overnight fermented batter that bakes up crisp, light, and tangy, with graham flour for nutty depth. The best use for sourdough starter at breakfast.

Courgette 'Meatballs'

Vegetarian zucchini kofta: grated courgette balls bound with gram flour, deep-fried to a reddish-brown crisp, then simmered in a spiced tomato cream sauce with garam masala and roasted cumin.

Favourite Steamed Brown Bread

New England-style steamed brown bread with graham flour, molasses, raisins, and a long 3-hour steam in a covered tin. Dense, dark, traditional companion to baked beans.

Bonda with Instant Mashed Potato

Crispy, golden Indian potato bondas made with a genius shortcut: instant mashed potatoes! Spiced with mustard seeds, turmeric, ginger, and green chilies, then dipped in gram flour batter and fried until irresistibly crunchy.

Graham Crackers

Homemade graham crackers from-scratch with whole graham flour, brown sugar, and a long overnight chill. Crisp, lightly sweet wholewheat crackers ready for s'mores, pie crusts, or straight-up snacking.

Southern Gems

Southern gems muffins made with cornmeal, graham flour, and brown sugar for a sweet, hearty quick bread. A classic Southern recipe that bakes up golden in just 25 minutes.

Steamed Rye Bread

A classic New England-style steamed brown bread made with rye flour, cornmeal, graham flour, molasses, and raisins. No oven needed. Just mix, fill the cans, and steam for two hours.

Grape Nuts

Homemade Grape Nuts cereal from scratch with graham flour, brown sugar, and buttermilk. Baked into a crisp sheet, ground, and toasted for that crunchy, nutty breakfast crunch.

Prize Winning Quick Brown Bread

Try this simple and scrumptious bread that tastes amazing toasted or used as a sandwich!

Easy Graham Peanut Butter Bread

Easy graham peanut butter bread made with graham flour and peanut butter in a simple one-bowl quick bread. No yeast, no kneading, just mix and bake for a nutty, wholesome loaf.

Soda Bread - Whole Wheat

Whole wheat Irish soda bread made with graham flour and tangy buttermilk, no yeast or rising time. Just six pantry staples, a quick knead, and a deep cross scored on top for that signature rustic loaf.

Gillan's Liver Bologna

Old-fashioned homemade liver bologna with beef liver, potatoes, bacon, and graham flour, boiled in cloth bags. A heritage charcuterie recipe from scratch.

Grapenuts

Homemade Grape-Nuts cereal made from graham flour, brown sugar, buttermilk, and cinnamon. Baked, ground, and toasted into crunchy nuggets for cereal, ice cream topping, or snacking.

Grape Nuts- Homemade

Homemade Grape-Nuts cereal from scratch with graham flour, buttermilk, and syrup. Baked into a thin slab, ground through a food chopper, then crisped again for that signature crunch.

Baked Sandwiches

A high fibre, meat filled bread from scratch recipe.

Maple Syrup Brown Bread

Steamed maple syrup brown bread blends cornmeal, graham flour, buttermilk, and pure maple syrup with raisins. Traditional New England brown bread, steamed or baked. Pairs with baked beans.

Steamed Molasses Brown Bread with Raisin

Steamed molasses brown bread with raisins, graham flour, and cornmeal. The classic New England Boston-style bread, slow-steamed to a moist, dense crumb.

Brown Bread #1

Old-fashioned brown bread made with graham flour, molasses, sour milk, and raisins. Slow-baked for a dense, moist loaf with deep caramel sweetness and a hearty whole grain chew.

Honey Graham Crackers

Homemade honey graham crackers made with graham flour, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and honey. Crisp, lightly sweet, and better than anything from a box.

Five-Grain Soda Bread

Five-grain soda bread for the bread machine, with white, whole wheat, rye, graham, and oats, plus raisins and tangy buttermilk. A hearty no-knead loaf with no yeast and no rise time.

Graham Bread

No-yeast graham bread made with graham flour, whole wheat flour, and buttermilk. A quick, dense loaf with nutty whole grain flavor and a tender crumb.

German Brown Bread

German brown bread, a no-yeast quick bread with sour milk, maple syrup, baking soda, and graham flour for a dense, wholesome loaf. The old-country style brown bread for hearty breakfasts.

Quick Graham Bread

Old-fashioned quick graham bread, a no-knead pioneer-style whole grain loaf with brown sugar, graham flour, and milk. Bakes up in an hour with no yeast or rising time required.

Old Fashioned Graham Flour Bread

Old-fashioned graham flour bread using a bread machine for kneading. A hearty, honey-sweetened loaf with a nutty, whole-grain flavor that makes two loaves.

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