how many grams in a teaspoon of quinoa flour?

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• How many grams is one teaspoon of quinoa flour?
  About 2.29 g per level teaspoon. Three teaspoons make a tablespoon, so a recipe calling for 7 g of quinoa flour is essentially three level teaspoons. At this size, the difference between heaping and level is only a gram or so — not enough to ruin a single serving of porridge or a small slurry, but worth leveling if you're calibrating a new flour blend.
• Why would a recipe spec quinoa flour by the teaspoon?
  Three common cases: micro-dosing it into a homemade GF flour blend to test how much grassiness a recipe can carry, thickening a single-serving pan sauce or gravy, and adding it to infant or toddler porridge as a protein boost. A teaspoon or two also shows up in arepa and Andean flatbread recipes scaled down for one or two people.
• Can I substitute a teaspoon of quinoa flour for cornstarch?
  Not directly. Quinoa flour is roughly half as effective a thickener as cornstarch, so you'd need about 2 teaspoons of quinoa flour (around 4.5 g) to match 1 teaspoon of cornstarch (around 2.5 g). Quinoa flour also carries flavor, where cornstarch is neutral — fine in a savory pan sauce, less ideal in a clear fruit glaze.

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