Mesquite Flour - Grinders and Recipes

Just made my first mesquite flour. Made a chocolate chip cookie recipe. I think I did something wrong, because they were totally flat but SO DELICIOUS! I would highly recommend it to anyone gluten free or who has mesquite trees in your neighborhood!

Couple of questions:
1. I have used a food processor to grind it, but am looking at getting a grain mill. Does anyone know if a grain mill would work on mesquite beans? I've never had a grain mill so don't totally know how they work.

2. Anyone have recipes for mesquite flour. I'm supposed to be gluten free and would love some great sourdough bread or other recipes for mesquite flour.

I live near a place that grinds Mesquite flour.  I though they might have a website with recipes though I did not find it.

I did find a website that said to use Coconut Flour recipes (1:1).

I hope this helps.

There's a big mill (hammer mill) that is used in some of the communities in places mesquite grows. If you look online you can see videos of them. I might come back and edit this to add a link to one. I don't know if a grain mill will do it. I think the big ones spit out parts of it when making the flour, can't remember what parts or if it's necessary...

Since it's gluten-free people often use a binding agent with it, like adding an egg to whatever's in the recipe. Often people will not use the mesquite flour for the only flour, and will instead substitute a portion (1/4-1/3 of the called for amount) of regular flour or other gluten free flour. Also, you may need to adjust the temperature and/or time of baking as mesquite has a lower burn temp than regular flours. You also might want to sift the mesquite flour.

Okay, so I've got some video links for you, most of them cover how to harvest as well, and... some recipe links too!

Seems like the stuff that comes out of the mill is just chaff, according to this video:

There's also a simple video here:

Another to check out is (which says they have classes on how to make flour in a blender):

There's also a Mesquite Video Resource Library with a few videos.

And last, but not least, here's a place with mesquite flour recipes to try.

One more thing to note: aflatoxin can be an issue with mesquite, so you might want to make sure to prevent that as much as possible. That last site has a PDF with aflatoxin in mesquite info. for their area and here's the Wikipedia page on aflatoxin, which is a health concern in more than just mesquite. The PDF mentions testing for aflatoxin, but I'm not sure what's involved with that.