How to Make Oat Flour

Learn how to make oat flour at home in less than 5 minutes with this easy step-by-step tutorial. This healthy, gluten-free flour alternative is super versatile and can be used to make muffins, bread, desserts, and more.

• Easy to make: Making your oat flour is super simple and quick. It’s done with one ingredient in one simple step, you’ll just need a high-speed blender or food processor.
• Healthy: Rolled oats offer lots of nutrition, they’re naturally gluten-free, filled with fiber, and have a good amount of plant-based protein.
• Delicious: The flavor and texture of homemade baked goods that use oat flour is light and fluffy with a subtle nutty taste.
• Versatile: Oat flour can be used to make so many recipes from muffins and breads to cookies and cake, and even savory recipes where you would use another type of flour.

What is Oat Flour?

Oat flour is a whole-grain flour made into fine flour or powder by grinding or blending whole-rolled oats. It is usually used as a gluten-free alternative to wheat flour in baking and cooking. It’s similar to whole wheat flour but since it can be naturally gluten-free is a great alternative to wheat or whole-grain flour in baking.

🥧 Using oat flour in baking

Oat flour can be used in place of any flour when baking. It may not act exactly like all-purpose white flour and may also leave a nutty flavor, but it is a great healthier alternative in baking and it is also a good gluten-free alternative to using whole grain flour.

🫚Ingredient needed

Making this oat flour recipe only requires one ingredient – oats!

The best types of oats to use when making homemade oat flour are old-fashioned rolled oats or quick-cooking oats so that it has the perfect light and fluffy consistency.

Steel-cut oats are much too hard and are likely to result in grittier oat flour that will not work as well in baked goods and other recipes. We like to purchase organic oats and be sure to choose certified gluten-free oats if you want to make gluten-free oat flour.

🔪 How to make oat flour

Here’s a step-by-step guide on making oat flour for baking using your blender or food processor:

1. Add the oats: Place your rolled oats into a blender or food processor.
2. Blend: To break the oats down, blend or pulse until the oats look like flour or a fine powder. This takes less than 1 minute.

Tips and Tricks

• Measuring oat flour: To be precise and for the best results for your recipe, once blended, measure the oat flour to what is needed to make the recipe.
• Amount of rolled oats to oat flour: For 1 cup of oat flour, you will typically need to blend a bit more than 1 cup of rolled oats. Blend about 1 1/4 cup rolled oats to equal about 1 cup oat flour.
• We highly recommend using rolled oats in place of quick-cooking oats.

📃 Common questions

🫙Storage recommendations

Place homemade oat flour in an airtight container, and store at room temperature for up to 3 months.

🍛Recipes using oats

• Raspberry Oatmeal Bars
• Cranberry Oat Bars
• Chocolate Overnight Oats
• Healthy Cowboy Cookies
• Gluten-Free Monster Cookies