Bolo de Arroz is one of my favourite traditional Portuguese pastries and I am quite happy to have come up with this low fodmap portuguese rice muffins that are also gluten free.
These super light muffins have a soft and airy texture, a lemony scent and a crispy sugar crust. Nham!
The recipe is made with rice flour, so it’s naturally gluten-free! No dairy, because of the… rice milk! And if you want this recipe to be vegan too, just substitute the egg with a flax egg (please see recipe notes below).
Portuguese Rice Muffins
Bolo de Arroz is a traditional Portuguese rice muffin with a soft and airy texture, a lemony scent and a crispy sugar crust. And low fodmap!
Servings: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup 4 oz | 115 gr sugar
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 egg OR flax egg: 1 tbsp linseed + 3 tbsp warm water
- 1/2 cup | 140 ml rice milk
- Zest of ½ lemon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 cup | 5,3 oz | 150 gr rice flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp of salt
- Sugar to sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF.
- Prepare a 12 muffins pan with paper baking cups. Or you can use 6 mini panetone paper cups like in the pictures.
- In a large bowl whisk the sugar with the oil for 2 minutes. Add the egg (or flax egg - see notes), milk, lemon zest and lemon juice.
- In another bowl, combine the rice flour, baking powder and salt and slowly add to the batter, beating until completely blended.
- Pour the batter half way into each of the muffin cups.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle granulated sugar on top of the muffins straight from the oven.
Notes
Vegans and egg intolerants:
*To make a flax egg, combine flaxseeds and warm water, allow to sit for about 5 minutes and mix in the blender.
*To make a flax egg, combine flaxseeds and warm water, allow to sit for about 5 minutes and mix in the blender.
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Adoro bolinhos de arroz! São deliciosos!
Gostei de conhecer o teu blo! 🙂
Obrigada Paula 🙂 Hoje vou postar outra receita de bolinhos. Espero que goste 🙂
Vou experimentar! Obrigada pela receita 😉
Obrigada 🙂 espero que seja do seu agrado 🙂
Could I use a different type of milk?
Hi Brooke! Almond milk or lactose free milk will work as well.
Hi! Looking to make these . Which rice flour did you use? White, sweet white or brown? thank you!
Hi Sonya! I used white rice flour. Hope you like them 🙂
Mine fell in the middle ???? not sure what I did wrong. Made with a flax egg since I’m vegan.
Even with the drop they are soooo tasty!
😉
Olá Cristina. This recipe is normally failproof. There might be 2 reasons for that: a poor quality rice flour or baking powder. The flax egg works well. If you are portuguese, I suggest fermento royal and doves farm rice flour. You can also check out the recipe in Portuguese here: https://mygutfeeling.eu/pt/bolo-de-arroz-low-fodmap/
Hello! Can i replace sugar with liquid stevia? Would it still yield a good texture?
Hi Adriana! I would say yes, it will still keep the same texture. We normally don’t use a lot of liquid stevia so I think it will be fine 🙂