Recipes & Uses

Why You'll Love Sorghum Flour

• Mild, Pleasant Flavour: Complements both sweet and savoury recipes.

• Versatile Ingredient: Suitable for flatbreads, pancakes, biscuits and baking.

• Traditional Cooking: Popular in dishes such as Indian jowar roti and bhakri.

• Easy to Combine: Can be blended with other flours to achieve your preferred texture.

• Everyday Pantry Essential: Ideal for home cooking and creative baking.

How to Use Sorghum Flour

Use sorghum flour to prepare traditional jowar roti, bhakri, pancakes and savoury flatbreads. It can also be incorporated into muffins, biscuits and other baked goods. When using it in bread or cake recipes, combining it with other flours may help improve the texture and structure.

For flatbreads, mix with warm water and a little salt to form a soft dough, then shape and cook on a hot pan until done.

Shop Sorghum Flour online at SpiceNEasy NZ and bring variety and flavour to your everyday cooking and baking.

Recipe for Sorghum Flour

Sorghum Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

*(Makes 24 cookies | 15 mins prep + 10 mins baking)*

Ingredients:

• 1 ¼ cups (150g) sorghum flour

• ½ tsp baking soda

• ¼ tsp salt

• ½ cup (115g) softened butter (or coconut oil for dairy-free)

• ½ cup (100g) brown sugar

• ¼ cup (50g) white sugar

• 1 large egg (or flax egg for vegan)

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 cup (180g) chocolate chips

• ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Optional Add-ins:

• 1 tbsp molasses (for deeper flavor)

• Sea salt flakes for topping

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Whisk dry ingredients: In a bowl, mix sorghum flour, baking soda, and salt.

3. Cream butter & sugars: Beat butter with brown and white sugar until fluffy (2-3 mins).

4. Add wet ingredients: Mix in egg and vanilla until combined.

5. Combine: Gradually add dry ingredients to wet mixture. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts.

6. Scoop & bake: Drop 1-tbsp portions onto the sheet, spacing 2" apart. Bake 10-12 mins until edges golden.

7. Cool 5 mins on sheet, then transfer to a rack.

Perfect for Bread Baking

Use Sorghum Flour as part of a flour blend for loaves, sandwich bread, rolls and flatbreads.

Its mild flavour works well alongside other alternative flours and starches without adding the stronger taste associated with some nut or seed flours.

Great for Pancakes & Waffles

Sorghum Flour works particularly well in pancakes and waffles, where its fine grind helps create a tender batter.

Combine it with your preferred leavening ingredients and other flours where required by the recipe.

The live SpicenEasy page specifically recommends Sorghum Flour for fluffy pancakes and waffles.

Excellent for Muffins & Quick Breads

Use it in:

• Banana muffins
• Blueberry muffins
• Savoury muffins
• Banana bread
• Other quick breads

Its relatively neutral flavour means ingredients such as fruit, chocolate, spices and vanilla remain prominent.

Perfect for Cookies & Bars

Sorghum Flour can provide useful structure in cookies, slices and bars.

SpicenEasy's current page includes a Sorghum Flour Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe using sorghum flour with butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and chocolate chips.

Try It in Flatbreads & Wraps

Use Sorghum Flour as part of recipes for flatbreads, wraps and simple pan-cooked breads.

Because Sorghum behaves differently from wheat flour, recipes may require binders, starches or other flours depending on the result you want.

Useful for Thickening

Sorghum Flour can also be used in small quantities to add body to soups and sauces.

Whisk it smoothly into liquid or make a slurry first to reduce the chance of lumps. The current live page lists sauces and soups among its uses.

Sorghum Flour in Alternative Flour Blends

Sorghum Flour is often most useful as one component of a flour blend rather than being treated as a direct one-for-one replacement for wheat flour in every recipe.

Pairing it with suitable starches or other flours can help balance structure, softness and moisture depending on the recipe.

Sorghum Flour vs Wheat Flour

Sorghum Flour has a mild flavour that can work well in recipes where you want an alternative flour without a strong aftertaste.

However, it does not behave exactly like wheat flour, particularly in yeast breads and recipes that rely heavily on gluten structure, so substitutions should follow an appropriate tested recipe.

Buy Sorghum Flour in New Zealand

SpicenEasy currently sells Sorghum Flour in a 1kg pack within the Bulk Buy range.

Order Sorghum Flour online in NZ for bread, pancakes, muffins, cookies, flatbreads and everyday alternative baking.

Storage

Store Sorghum Flour tightly sealed in an airtight container in a cool, dark and dry place. The live SpicenEasy page also recommends refrigeration for longer storage

Other Top Sorghum Flour Recipes:

1. Sorghum Pancakes – Fluffy with a cornbread-like texture.

2. Sorghum Flatbread – Perfect for wraps or dipping.

3. Sorghum Banana Muffins – Moist with a tender crumb.

Note 

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