Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

by Bob's Red Mill

• Case of four 22-ounce packages (88 total ounces)
• A unique blend that includes garbanzo and fava beans
• An excellent source of protein and fiber
• Ideal for gluten-free pizzas, breads, and cookies
• Packaged in Milwaukie, Oregon

Product Description

About the Brand

Bob Moore's secret to life may just be "work hard and keep it simple." Living this philosophy, Bob literally puts his nose to the grindstone every day. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is an Oregon-based company that utilizes simple, old-world technology to mill hundreds of all-natural whole grain products.

Bob's Red Mill is dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way. In their own words: "With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times."

"Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills, or pulverizers ever built! These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm, and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food."

Bob's Red Mill stone grinds all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on its over 100-year-old mills. They mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten-free mixes, and specialty grain products.

Product Description

Gluten free. Wheat free, Dairy free. Great for pizza crust, breads and more. All natural product. You can see our quality. Perfect for all kinds of baking, including breads, pizza, cakes and cookies. Use in place of rice flour in any of your favorite recipes. Bean flours provide protein for superb gluten-free baking. Gluten Free: Bob's Red Mill products labeled Gluten Free are batch tested in our quality control laboratory. We use an Elisa Gluten Assay Test to determine if a product is gluten free.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EDBQ4C
• UPC: 039978004741
• Item model number: 039978004574
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,042 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #3 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Pantry Staples > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Flours & Meals > Garbanzo

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful flour for those avoiding grains October 23, 2008

By Ruth M. Neidlinger

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We started using this flour as part of a grain-free diet. Since our only other alternative is nut flours, this bean flour offers a reasonably priced alternative that is more like typical flour. It works very well in a variety of baked goods such as bread, cookies, muffins, and brownies. I have not yet tried it in a cake recipe.
The batter has a beany flavor, but once baked, that flavor is gone.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent gluten free flour November 14, 2009

By D. L. McKeen

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This is a great flour combination for gluten free recipes, including ones in Bette Hagman's Gluten Free Gourmet cookbooks. You still have to add other flours to it, such as tapioca, cornstarch, or arrowroot, and you need xantham gum, but the combination gives you an excellent start.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't compare to Authentic Foods Garfava February 6, 2010

By Celia B

This product is a good less expensive substitute to Authentic Foods' Garfava, but as Bette Hagman pointed out: it's very different in flavor n texture. The recipes calling for garfava will work with this mix but it will come out more grainny and with very beanny smell and taste. I only use this mix to bake breads and muffins with other strong flavor ingredients such as bananas, chocolate, onions n Parmesan cheese to mask the bean flavor. I was always hesitant to buy the real garfava because not only it is more expensive but the shipping costs almost double the price, but once I baked with it, I was so pleasantly surprised how sooooo much better it tastes! I loved vanilla blueberry muffins when I used to eat wheat, but after I was diagnosed with Celiac spruce I couldn't find a GF flour mix that would produce a muffin that would taste good and be as fluffy as the wheat ones. This product produces breads and muffins with great consistency but the bean taste is too strong. For vanilla cupcakes, I have to use AF's garfava.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I use it all the time for gluten-free bread November 22, 2008

By G. Kusbit

I've been using this flour happily for a year now to make gluten-free bread for my teenage son. This flour by Red Mill is just as good as the more expensive Authentic Foods' Garfava flour. This flour does give a distinct beany taste, but when I add chopped onion to any bread recipe, the beany taste is not noticeable at all. I make onion gluten-free bread every week---it can be used for sandwiches when just baked. After 2 days it's best toasted.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive results July 9, 2010

By L. Callahan

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I have been on a gluten-free diet for years, and had used several kinds of flours, but never this particular one. I went for it and used it in a devils food carob cake recipe (mine). Kind of risky considering the flour is part garbonzo and part fava! But the cake is delicious. There is absolutely NO discernable bean flavor in the cake. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that I haven't tried it in any other recipes yet. The quantity you get in this order is substantial, and easily stores along the back walls of my frig. Love it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Celiac cook May 9, 2010

By Donna G. Spencer

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I buy a lot of Bob's Red Mill gluten-free products. I've been in their store, and they process the gluten-free items in a seperate area, away from the gluten products. I especially like the Garbanzo Fava Flour.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Bread, Bread, Bread February 10, 2010

By B. SWEARINGEN

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I have celiac. This flour is a good alternative for the bread flour mix.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect addition to a gluten free diet! September 23, 2009

By B. Mullen

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Delicious! I have so many food allergies and am allergic to just about every grain, but Garbanzo Fava flour has been light and gentle on my sensitive stomach. I have even been able to make a flat bread with it! It is WONDERFUL to feel like I am eating bread again.