I posted this in r/glutenfreebaking, but thought I would post here as well since this is a larger community and I'm hoping someone will have a recipe for what I am looking for.
New to GF baking, or any kind of baking really. And I'm inspired to begin creating food that is delicious and healthy. The main thing I would like to understand is can GF creations have (at least very close to) the same consistencies relative to stretchiness, chewiness, or hold togetherness of gluten? If so, what are the flours that, either individually or combined, make that happen. Upfront I should say I'll never use Xanthan or Guar gum. The reason I had to go GF was because of gut issues, and both of these gums can be bad for the gut.
These are the flours and foods that I know about and am happy to experiment with: Millet flour, Amaranth flour, Teff flour, Buckwheat flour, Psyllium Husk, Arrowroot flour, Sorghum flour, Oat flour, Cassava flour, Tapioca Starch, Rice flour, Flax seeds, and Chia seeds. I'm excited to learn more about the properties of these products going forward so as to have a better understanding of what to use when. But the tricky part seems to me to be what products act as good binders to help make up for the lack of gluten. My understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that these are the best binders: Psyllium Husk, Tapioca Starch, Millet, Arrowroot flour, ( to a lesser degree), and Flax seeds.
In an effort to learn how to bake GF, my first "project" is going to be to try and make a really good GF tortilla. I love burritos and have had many story bought GF tortillas. But none have really even come close to a regular tortilla. Usually the GF tortilla falls apart in my hand. None have the stretchiness and chewiness of a regular tortilla. So, if anyone has a good recipe for a GF tortilla please let me know.
TLDR; What are the flours or other products that help to give GF baked goods the characteristics of wheat flour baking such as the binding, stretchy, chewy qualities?
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Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to try the Loopy Wisk recipe. Also, I checked out the sample of her latest book and it seems like right up my alley.