Wednesday, February 26, 2014

# 2 Hemp Flatbread

The next flatbread recipe shows you how to add superfoods into your diet easily. My friend was asking some questions about the hemp the other day and since hemp is gaining more and more popularity every day I want to share this flatbread recipe with you and I want to dedicate it to her- you know who you are !

Hemp is from the plant family Moraceae, like mulberries and it can be grown practically all over the world. If you still haven't tried it, I highly recommend that you give it a chance and get either some hemp flour for baking or raw hemp seeds for your salads.
Hemp contains all essential amino acids being a complete protein so it is also an excellent food for vegetarians. It also has great amounts of essential fatty acids and it contains vitamins, antioxidants and over twenty trace minerals. Hemp flour is also high in fiber.

One special note about the recipes. You might get confused about the desi-liters and cups and often you are familiar only with one of these measurement units. I am more comfortable of using liters/desi-liters/milli-liters/grams and for these flatbread recipes the amounts doesn't need to be so exact that a few grams or milli-liters really counts. I have used some rounding ups in certain recipes when it comes to the cups.
All my recipes have the original format of using desiliter=dl as a measuring tool. And I use the same baking tools for all the recipes. Tablespoons are shortened as Tbsp. and teaspoons as tbs.

Intermediate 1 for sulphite/sulfite issues, suitable only when you can tolerate more organic sulphur/sulfur. Hemp contains Methionine 23mg per gram of protein and Cysteine 16mg per gram of protein.

Hemp-Flatbreads, makes about 20 mini flatbreads

2 dl or 3/4 cups + 2 Tbsp. of Miller flour
2 dl or 3/4 cups + 2 Tbsp. of  Brown rice flour
1 dl or 1/3 cup + 1 Tbsp. of Hemp flour
2 Tbsp. of Golden flax seeds
1 tsp. of Sea salt
3 dl or 1 cup + 4 Tbsp. of Water
1 Tbsp. of Extra virgin olive oil

Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl and add water until you have a smooth mixture.  Add 1 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil and mix well. Let the mixture sit about 5 minutes, so that the flaxseeds will absorb some liquid. Cover the baking tray with a good quality baking paper and put heaping teaspoons of the mixture on the paper and spread small circles which are about 0,5 cm high.



Bake in the oven: 180 C or 350 F about 8-10 minutes.

Also these flatbreads keep well in the fridge up to one week or in freezer for longer. The smaller size flatbread is a perfect size for parties and also for kids.

I love to eat the hemp flatbreads with caper-butter. Capers have some natural antihistamine properties and capers can help with some seasonal allergies. I only buy good quality capers which are kept in pure sea salt. Capers are also sold in vinegar and those would be problematic if you have sulphite/sulfite issues.

For Caper butter you need:

150 g soft, unsalted butter, organic-grass-fed
1 tbs. of Capers in salt

Wash the excess salt from the capers and soak them at least 10 minutes in the water. Pat dry them quickly and chop finely. There will be enough salt in capers even though you have soaked them, so there is no need to add any salt. Mix chopped capers in the butter and serve with hemp flatbreads.




Enjoy!

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