Angela

Reader Request: Making Rice Flour with the Ninja Blender



Earlier this week Ruth left a comment on one of my posts wondering about the ability for the Ninja Blender to grind up rice to make flour. Considering my kitchen is in total disarray, her timing couldn’t have been better. Cooking this week = not so much. Blending this week = very much so!

This is a very easy project, and it’ll make you second guess buying pre-packaged rice flour in the future. For Ruth’s request, she specifically mentioned using rice soaked overnight. Whether or not you do this step is up to you.

Making Rice Flour with a Ninja Blender



Step 1 – (Optional) – Soak one cup of rice overnight, then drain and let dry completely. You could blend up to four cups of rice at a time, I think, but one cup is a nice starter amount.

Side note: For what it’s worth, I used brown basmati rice for this experiment, but you could use any rice you like. It is generally accepted that basmati rice should be soaked before being cooked to preserve the flavor, but I don’t know if this holds true when turning it to flour!

Step 2 – Add rice to the Ninja Blender.



Step 3 – Blend on level 3 until you get a consistency you like, stopping to press down rice on the sides if needed.

That’s it – easy as 1-2-3!

1 cup of uncooked soaked rice yielded about 1.5 cups of rice flour for me.



I am definitely not an expert in baking or cooking with rice flour, but have read that you can replace 1 cup of white flour with 3/4 cup of rice flour.

Have Ninja Blender Recipe or Process Questions?
Well, then let me know! I am always happy to break out the ol’ Ninja for the sake of helping you out and learning new things! Thanks Ruth for this topic idea!



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  • Cool! I bet this would work in my normal blender too. I never thought about soaking vs not soaking beforehand.

    How long does it take to dry after soaking? And you leave it on the counter? Do you leave it in the strainer?

    Sorry for so many questions. LOL

    Thanks!

    • Hi Debbie,

      I think it would get gummed up in your normal blender, BUT it will probably work in a food processor. It certainly doesn’t hurt to try (both)!

      I soaked the rice overnight and then strained in the morning, and left it covered in the strainer on the counter until after lunch, and it was dry. If you soak, you could also perhaps pour it out onto a clean dishtowel to let dry, though that could get messy with rice everywhere! I think the soaking is really a personal preference deal, but the request was about soaked rice, so I wanted to do it exactly as she asked.

      Have fun!
      Angela

      • Thanks a million! Rice flour can be so expensive. It’s nice to know my Ninja Blender will make rice flour.

  • Angela, thanks for the extra tips. I would love to try it soon! It’s on my list.

    I have a little bit of Bob’s Red Mill brown rice flour in my fridge and I’m saving/savoring it, not wanting to waste it. Kind of silly, especially since I can just make it myself! haha

    I’ll try it in the food processor then.

    • You bet – I was pretty excited about this idea, but I am curious – what do you use the brown rice flour for? Now that I have some, I am trying to figure out how I will use it!

      • You can use rice flour as a alternative to cake flour in a pinch too. So any recipe you have that calls for cake flour if you don’t have cake flour on hand you can sub in with rice flour. I have done it several times with success each time.

      • rice and oat flour are great in gluten free foods, Iam looking forward to trying these. just got my mega system and have used it a couple of times. still having trouble not over blending some things like guacamole,

        • Hi Gale,

          Agree – rice and oat flour are great substitutions when going GF.

          By the way, with the guac, I tend to just pulse it a couple times only and leave a few chunks in there. But, it’s personal preference…Good luck!

  • I was using it in pancakes and muffins. And I made dumplings once too.

    Now if I can get it more easily (like this), I’ll add it to my yeast breads too.

  • Oh and I forgot, I heard you can use it to thicken soups, stocks, gravies too. I think that is why I originally bought it. LOL. But I haven’t done it.

    I bet it would make a great breakfast cereal too! especially for babies.

    And I suppose in the back of my mind I KNEW I could make my own, but it took your blog post to push it home!

    • Thank you! I have some ideas now thanks to your help. Now, I need my kitchen back together again and I’ll be set to try out this new flour!

  • Oops I didn’t check that you had already post this up already! I actually don’t have my own recipe for rice cake, but I’m planning to use the recipe for “Rainbow rice cake (mujigae ddeok)” from Maangchi’s website. Thank you so much for posting so quickly! I think I’m going to get the Ninja blender now, so much more affordable and compact than the Vitamix! But I was wondering, since the container is plastic, did it get any scratches from the grain?

    • Hi Ruth,

      You’re very welcome – hopefully this helped.

      As far as your question, yes, the container is plastic and it can scratch. I have had mine about a year and a half now, so it has some random scratches here and there, but honestly, not nearly what I thought it would be like. Mainly, the scratches on my jar have been from accidentally scraping the blades against it, not from anything I have blended, and I have blended everything imagineable in it! Every so often I think about buying a replacement jar from Ninja – I haven’t, but it is nice to know there is an option for that.

      Thanks for the idea and for dropping by!
      Angela

  • Hi Angela,

    Thank you for all of your suggestions. I just bought a Ninja Kitchen System from Macy’s this weekend after seeing the infomercial (and have been trying to decide if I should keep it).

    I was wondering if you have ever tried to make other flour like bean flour with it? I have a friend with a wheat grinder who makes bean flour and adds to her baking. I don’t think I would grind enough wheat to justify buying a grinder and I thought this might have the versatility to do this too?

    I am hoping this was a good purchase since it looks like there are some differences between this one and the one on the commercial (mine did not come with a recipe book so I am so glad you have recipes posted).

    Thanks!

    • Hi Kimberly,

      What kind of beans would you like to grind? Like garbanzo beans? I can certainly give it a try for you (though I have a high confidence that it would work).

      Angela

    • I’d also be interested to know if it ground beans into flour as well. Rice seems to be a bit softer. I don’t know if beans are too hard in texture. It would be great if it were that powerful without burning out the motor!

      Thanks Angela!

    • Hi Kimberly and Debbie,

      I will give it a try! I am out of town until Thursday, so it will be on my weekend “to-do” list – expect a post early next week!

      Angela

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