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Homemade Gluten Free Suet Recipe

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This recipe for Homemade Gluten Free Suet has been on my website since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. It is still one of the most popular recipes on my website (hands off other free from websites!) and it’s a simple recipe, so simple it’s easy to over think it and imagine it’s way more complicated than it is.

I’m writing it up again because it used to nestle snuggly with my recipes for Gluten Free Dumplings using Homemade Suet and my Gluten Free Beef Stew and Dumplings recipe. However, Google threw a hissy fit as it didn’t like my Gluten Free Suet Recipe being on the same page as another recipe (such is the tedious eye-rolling world of blogging). So here my recipe sits all sparkly and new (not) on a page of it’s very own.

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Gluten Free Suet Ingredients

Table of contents

  • What is suet anyway?
  • Why is suet used in recipes?
  • Interesting facts about suet
  • How to make gluten free suet?
  • Can I buy Gluten Free Suet?
  • What can I make with Suet?
  • Homemade Gluten Free Suet Recipe

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What is suet anyway?

Suet is actually the hard fatty areas in beef and mutton found around the internal organs such as the kidneys. This solid fat is clarified and chopped then finally tossed in flour to avoid coagulation. To clarify, the clarification process (see what I did there?) is whereby the fat is heated to separate the water from the fat.

Due to the fact is was originally a solid lump of fat, it has a higher melting point than butters for example. This is how suet retains its shape in foods when baked. Take the mince pie for example. You’ve probably bit into a mince pie and seen a little lump of suet right?

Why is suet used in recipes?

I’ve mentioned the fact that suet has a high melting point. This is one of the reasons it’s used in many savoury dishes such as suet puddings. The flavour enhances the bake, the fat retains is structure in pockets which in turn makes the suet crust moist but you can also achieve a crispy or flakiness with it too.

Grated Homemade Gluten Free Suet

Interesting facts about suet

Never have I been so excited to research a subject! I’m a Master of History (MA) so you’ll have to excuse my geekiness.

Suet appears in pretty much every recipe in Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1859), I’m not even exaggerating, it’s incredible the amount of recipes that called for pounds of suet! I have a copy of her book myself and giggle every time I see suet in the ingredients. There’s even a suet pudding, which is literally just flour, milk, suet and salt and pepper. my nose is screwed up typing that, not my cup of tea! I actually challenged myself to open the book at a random page several times and every time without fail, there was a recipe with suet in it.

Atora Suet has been a household name in the UK since 1932 and there’s a lovely post here The History of Atora Suet if you want to read more on the history of the brand. I hadn’t appreciated that something as simple as Atora isn’t easily sourced in the US, I guess that makes everyone in the US as limited as Coeliacs in the UK when it comes to shop bought suet then?

Fresh suet in it’s original form can be bought from your butcher. It comes in beef, lamb, pork and even venison. You can ask the butcher to chop it for you or take it home and chop or grate it yourself.

Beef suet is used more commonly in sweet puddings as the beef suet has a milder flavour whilst lamb suet is really meaty in flavour.

Vegetable suet is also available but has a lower melting point, it is suitable for vegetarians though.

Two types of gluten free homemade suet
Two types of gluten free homemade suet; grated and crumbled

Is ready made Suet Gluten Free?

Here in the UK the brand of suet we buy in the supermarket is Atora, as you can see below both the Beef and Vegetable Atora products are not gluten free as they have WHEAT in them.


Beef Atora - ingredients
Beef Atora – ingredients

Vegetable Atora - ingredients
Vegetable Atora – ingredients

How to make gluten free suet?

Can I buy Gluten Free Suet?

Yes you can, it is available on The Vegan Kind Supermarket. The brand Suma make a gluten free vegetable suet that costs £2.19 before P&P.

OR – you can make your own gluten free suet using a £1 block of vegetable fat and some gluten free flour and end up with 300g of suet that will keep in your fridge of freezer for months.

What can I make with Suet?

As mentioned I have my recipe for Gluten Free Beef Stew and Dumplings. Other recipes on this website that use gluten free suet are my Free From Clootie Dumpling: a traditional pudding and Simple Gluten Free Christmas Pudding. Also who could resist this Gluten Free Jam Roly Poly.

As my catalogue of recipes develop I’ll keep adding links and am keen to add a Treacle Suet Pudding.

Gluten Free Spotted Dick
The infamous Spotted Dick Pudding but adapted ever so slightly to be gluten free with a dairy free and vegan option too. This old British Classic Pudding is a household name in the UK and many have fond memories of their grandparents homemade puddings. Slightly sweet, steamed pudding always best served with lashing of hot custard.
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Gluten Free Spotted Dick also made dairy and egg free buy Glutarama
Gluten Free Jam Roly Poly
A delicious free from version of the famous traditional British pudding. This Jam Roly Poly has been adapted to be gluten free, dairy free and vegan using my own gluten free suet recipe. Tastes just like your Nan used to make and now you can make it for the next generation.
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Gluten Free Jam Roly Poly
Beef Stew and Gluten Free Dumplings made with easy to make homemade Gluten Free Suet
Beef Stew & Dumplings (GF, DF)
Gluten Free Clootie Dumpling
Clootie Dumpling (GF)
Gluten Free Christmas Pudding
Christmas Pudding (GF, DF, Ve)

Homemade Gluten Free Suet Recipe

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How to make Easy and Quick Gluten Free Suet with two ingredients

Homemade Gluten Free Suet Recipe

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This super simple recipe for making your own gluten free suet is a great way to open up lots of exciting recipes you’d possible not considered before such as Jam Roly Poly, Steak & Kidney Puddings and of course the old favourite; dumplings.
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Course Ingredient
Cuisine Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Vegan
Servings 100 grams

Equipment

  • pastry blender
  • mixing bowl
  • grater

Ingredients
 
 

  • 100 g lard/trex to make vegetable suet suitable for baking use a vegetable block of fat
  • 200 g gluten free plain flour

Instructions
 

  • Simply cut the lard into cubes in a large bowl, add the flour and using your fingers or a pastry blender work until you have a large breadcrumb texture.
  • 100 g lard/trex,200 g gluten free plain flour
  • To achieve a classic suet look you could use a potato ricer and store in the same way. I have added links to kitchen gadgets below.

Notes

Any suet you do not use for this recipe can be placed in a Tupperware container and left in the fridge or freezer for up to 3 months.
Recipes to use your gluten free suet are Jam Roly Poly, Steak & Kidney Pudding and dumplings to name but a few.
Keyword Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Suet, Vegan
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  1. Dave Hounslea says

    18/05/2023 at 11:36 pm

    My Son is Gluten intolerant and I always ust to make a Steak and Kidney pie which he loves using Atora veg suet and self raising flour and since he was diagnosed as a Celiac quite a few years ago he’s not been able to have it so I’m so looking forward to having a go at using your suet recipe for him. Thank you very much and best wishes from Dave

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    • Glutarama says

      23/05/2023 at 8:44 am

      I do hope you get on well with the recipe and get back to making delicious pies. Thank you for commenting Dave and good luck with the baking.

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  2. Jeffrey Howman says

    16/02/2023 at 9:16 pm

    Look forward to trying some of the recipes

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  3. Sue says

    01/01/2023 at 6:26 pm

    The recipe for GF suet sounds so logical! I will be trying the Trex version very soon, as the other half has been reminiscing about all the duet puddings he used to eat when he was younger and more wheat tolerant. It’s my job to keep an old man happy, if at all possible!

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    • Sue says

      01/01/2023 at 6:28 pm

      Duet?! Suet! I must proof-read before posting!

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    • Glutarama says

      05/01/2023 at 9:57 am

      Thank you for taking the time to come on and comment Sue – I did giggle at your typo of suet (duet). Hope you got on okay with the recipe and got to make your husband some thing nice.

      Reply
  4. Grant says

    06/11/2022 at 12:28 pm

    Awesome, thanks

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    • Glutarama says

      08/11/2022 at 2:49 pm

      You are most welcome Grant :-)

      Reply
  5. Maria Kelly says

    18/10/2022 at 10:10 am

    Very interesting. I will try it soon. Thank you

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