I am not a fan of beets! My family will attest to that. However, when they come in my CSA box, I have to eat them. In order to do that I find or create recipes that allow me to incorporate them into my diet. I adapted this recipe from a recent Food and Wine recipe, and it was heavenly! I love to top this with Brown Butter and Sage leaves, but any pasta sauce will do.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a baking dish with a lid, place beets and drizzle olive oil to coat.
Salt and pepper the beats.
Add 1/4 C filtered water to the baking dish, cover and bake for 1 hour, until the beets are tender.
Uncover dish and let beets cool completely.
Peel skin of beets and cut into 1-inch pieces, transfer to a food processor or blender to puree.
In a mixing bowl with paddle attachment, combine 1 1/2 C of beet puree (reserve any remaining for another recipe), ricotta, egg, nutmeg, 3/4 C Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese, and 1 T of salt.
Mix until ingredients are combined, scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Sprinkle flour at low speed until dough comes together. You may not need all of the flour.
Scrape dough onto floured work surface, knead the dough until smooth and slightly sticky.
Place into a bowl and cover with a damp towel.
Let stand at room temperature for 4-6 hours.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper and dust with flour.
Cut gnocchi dough into 10 pieces and roll each piece into 1/2 in. thick rope.
Cut ropes into 1/2 in thick pieces and transfer to prepared baking sheets.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Add 1/4 of the Gnocchi to the water and cook them until they rise to the surface.
Repeat this process until all the dough is finished.
Drain them and place them on a baking sheet that has been coated in olive oil.
To serve: Melt butter in a large skillet until the milk solids start to brown.
Toss in sage leaves and simmer until fragrant (med. low temperature).
Add Gnocchi to coat and serve with extra Parmigiano-Reggiano.
I am in love with white whole wheat flour. I use it in place of hard red wheat. The kids enjoy it! I started making pita while in pastry school, and I really enjoy eating them better than store-bought. On a side note, make sure your skillet is piping hot in order to get the bread to puff up.
In a mixing bowl, add whole wheat flour, salt, yeast, olive oil, and water.
Knead for 7 minutes unitl it forms a tight ball.
Let rise over 6-8 hours (or over night), or until it has doubled.
Divide dough into 2.5 oz balls, this recipe should give you 10.
Let it rest for 10 minute, cover with a damp towel.
Flaten dough balls, cover again, and rest for another 10 minutes.
In the meantime, heat a cast iron skillet until it starts to smoke.
Roll dough to a quarter inch.
Place each pita on the hot skillet, cook until bread puffs in the center.
Flip over to cook on the other side.
Remove and place on a rack to cool.
These little gems are poppable cheesy, chewy goodness with just a hint of jalepeño flavor. Traditionally, Brazillian cheese bread, aka Pão de Queijo, is made with fermented Tapioca flour, but I only had arrowroot flour on hand and personally think that it’s easier to digest than Tapicoa, so that’s what I used. Sometimes the bread is kneaded, sometimes it is thick. This version is a more liquidy batter that is quickly buzzed up in the blender. The best part is that you can make the batter ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator in a jar for up to a week. This makes it quick and easy to make a last minute addition to dinner or a quick snack.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Put all of the ingredients except the jalepeños in the blender. Pulse several times until well combined. Scrape down the sides and pulse a few more times.
Stir in the jalepeños. Store in the refrigerator up to a week if you would like, otherwise proceed with baking.
Fill the mini muffin cups all the way to the top.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until well puffed and slightly golden. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack. The puff will NOT sink. They will stay nice and firm and will be crunchy on the outside and very chewy on the inside. It is an interesting texture, but delicious.
Serve warm or reheat later.
This recipe was slightly adapted from Simply Recipes.
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These protein-packed, grain free muffins are perfect to make in advance and then grab for a last minute meal or snack! I like these for a change from the usual sweet muffin, and find they are good even at room temperature spread with lots of grass fed butter. You can eat them fresh from the oven or even pack them for the road.
Cook bacon until it starts to crisp up, then blot with paper towels and set aside to cool. In an electric mixer, beat eggs and sour cream until light and fluffy.
Mix up dry ingredients separately, and then stir them into egg mixture until well combined. Chop bacon finely and stir into batter along with cheese, and then pour into a paper-lined muffin pan. Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes, until set.
Sprouting wheat not only deactivates anti-nutrients that can interfere with proper digestion and absorption of minerals in the wheat, but it also provides a boost in nutrition, bringing into play enzymes and vitamin C that do not exist in un-sprouted wheat. This dense, satisfying loaf is easy to make, and freezes well.
First, sprout the wheat: Pour 2 cups of wheat berries into a wide-mouthed canning jar. Fill the jar with filtered water, cover with either a sprouting lid, or a canning ring over a piece of cotton cloth. Let it sit on the counter overnight, or 8 hours.
Drain the water out of the jar, fill again with water and drain well. Rinse the wheat berries, in this way, twice a day, until the little sprouts that are growing are slightly less than the length of the wheat kernels. Be sure you are looking at the sprouts, and not the little fine rootlets. Depending on the conditions in your kitchen, it can take 1 to 3 days for the wheat to sprout sufficiently. Watch them carefully. If they get too long, the sprouts will taste bitter. It is not a good idea to store them in the refrigerator. They will continue to grow.
Prepare a baking pan by lightly greasing with coconut oil, or put a silicone baking mat on a baking sheet.
Put the sprouted wheat berries into the bowl of a food processor with a metal blade. Add raisins and salt. Attach the lid.
Pre-heat oven to 225 degrees F.
Turn on the processor and let it run for 2 minutes. The dough should be soft and not very grainy at all.
Grease your hands with coconut oil (Important! This dough is STICKY!)
Remove the dough from the processor and on your baking pan, form it into a rectangular flat loaf that measures 4 inches by 8 inches.
Bake at 225 for 3 hours. Allow to cool, completely, on a wire rack before slicing.
Serve with butter, nut butters, honey, fruit spread, or simply plain!
This bread freezes well when tightly wrapped and makes a lovely gift for a like-minded friend along with a jar of your favorite topping or even a package of grass-fed butter.
I like to make 4 at a time, which only takes a few more minutes and saves much time and clean-up in the long run. I simply sprout 4 jars of wheat berries. It smells wonderful when it is baking.
I have tried many grain-free and gluten-free pizza crust recipes, but none of them quite measured up. Either they were too eggy, too fragile, or too crumbly and dry. This grain-free pizza crust has an excellent texture though. It is springy, soft, holds up to toppings, can be thin-ish or thick, and when cooked on a pizza stone, it is crispy on the bottom. The taste is great as well, especially with the added herbs. Most people would not know that it isn’t made with white flour.
The batter is versatile and would be a wonderful base for a breakfast strata, made into rounds for a flatbread to sandwich just about anything, or poured on top of veggies to make pot pies or other quick casseroles. I imagine you could also sweeten the batter a bit and top a cobbler that way. Hope you enjoy!
Preheat oven and a pizza stone (if you have one) to 425 degrees.
If you do not have a pizza stone, line a large jelly roll pan or round pizza pan with parchment paper. If you do have a pizza stone, simply place a piece of parchment slightly larger than you want your pizza on top of a bread peel or cutting board.
In a medium bowl, mix together dry ingredients until no lumps remain and ingredients are well mixed.
Add beaten eggs and milk of choice. Stir until a thick batter forms, being sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Pour the batter onto the parchment paper in a large round or rectangle, whichever you prefer. Use the back of a spoon or a rubber spatula to even to batter out to the thickness and shape that you prefer. Remember, it will rise.
If using a stone, pick up your baking peel or cutting board to transfer your parchment to the over. Quickly open the oven pick up a corner of the parchment. Slide it directly onto the hot stone. Bake for 10-12 minutes, depending on thickness until slightly golden.
Remove from the oven by sliding the parchment back onto the peel or cutting board. Top with sauce and toppings of choice and bake an additional 10-15 minutes; watch the bottom of the crust to make sure it is not burning.
If using a parchment lined pan, place in the hot oven and bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven, top with sauce and toppings of choice and bake an additional 10-15 minutes.
Makes a moist, airy squash pancake with a phenomenal taste. Add lots of butter and berries on top!
In a medium size mixing bowl, add in squash and eggs and mix until creamy using a Hand Blender if you have one.
Then add in peanut butter, salt and cinnamon and mix until all ingredients are incorporated.
Lastly, add 3/4 cup water and mix. If it needs a little more water, add the last 1/4 cup in very slowly. It’s hard to remove water after its mixed in!
Use the following directions on how to fry the perfect pancake and enjoy! http://www.wellnesshammock.com/2012/05/how-do-you-fry-the-perfect-pancake/
These grain-free, dairy-free muffins are a tasty, springtime treat; a great way to enjoy fresh strawberries! If you can tolerate dairy, top with plenty of grass-fed butter or whipped cream and fresh strawberries!
Beat eggs with coconut oil, maple syrup, almond milk, stevia, and strawberry extract. Mix dry ingredients together in a smaller bowl, breaking up any lumps. Stir into the egg mixture, then add strawberries until well combined. Drop about 1/4 c. at a time into a paper-lined muffin pan and bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes. Remove to wire rack to cool.
This is a super-fast, easy breakfast that is chock full of protein and good fats! Serve with a bit of sucanat or honey for a special treat.
Preheat oven to 450. Place coconut oil in a 10-in. cast iron skillet and place in the oven to melt and heat up. Whirl eggs and coconut milk in the blender for about 30 seconds, until whipped and frothy. Add almond flour, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon and whiz for another 30 seconds or so. Pour into hot skillet and arrange apple slices over the top and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake for 10 minutes, and then lower heat to 350 and bake another 5-10 minutes, until puffed and golden brown.
Sprouted pasta can be expensive, but these yummy egg noodles are quick and easy to prepare from sprouted wheat flour. They may be cooked immediately or dried for later use. Excellent as a base for pasta sauce or in chicken and noodles, or throw a few into other stock-based soups.
These noodles may be made in a bowl, stirring with a fork, or in a food processor with a plastic blade. I prefer to use the food processor as it is easier.
In the processor bowl, combine the eggs, salt, and 1/2 cup flour. Pulse a few times to mix. Add more flour, 2 Tablespoons at a time, pulsing after each addition, until the mixture holds together in a firm but moist dough.
Turn the dough out onto a surface sprinkled with more sprouted flour. Cut the dough in half.
Roll each half out, using more flour to prevent sticking, to about 1/8 inch thickness.
Cut into noodle strips with a pizza cutter. Other shapes may be made also, of course.
Repeat with the other half of the dough.
Cook in soup or boiling water immediately, OR, hang to dry and then store in an airtight container in the freezer until you are ready to cook them.
5 minutes in boiling liquid is sufficient to cook them thoroughly if the noodles are fresh.
If you decide to dry them, they need to boil for 12 minutes, approximately to cook.
Socca (or karantita) is the ideal gluten-free pizza crust — made of only three main ingredients: chickpea flour, water and olive oil. In this version, I spiced it with sumac and fresh rosemary. Once pan-fried, you can add your toppings of choice. For this vegetarian version, I added caramelized onions, sauteed mushrooms and tomatoes, black olives, and a vegan cashew cheese spread. It’s also delicious with soft goat cheese and anchovies!
Soak the chickpea flour overnight: In a bowl, add 2 cups of chickpea flour, 1½ cups of filtered water, and 2 tablespoons raw apple cider vinegar. Whisk together until there are no lumps. Cover and leave batter overnight on the counter.
Spice up the batter. The next day, you’ll have a batter that is ready to use! For this Middle Eastern take on socca, add 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons fresh finely chopped rosemary, 1 teaspoon dried sumac, 2 teaspoons unrefined salt, ¼ teaspoon black pepper, and if you want a little kick, ¾ teaspoon chili pepper powder.
Oil the pan. Add 2-3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil to a 12” or 14” cast iron or nonstick pan, make sure the bottom and sides are oiled, then pour in the spiced chickpea batter. You can pour in a little at a time if you want a thinner crust, or pour it all in and get a thick crust. With this amount of batter, you will likely have a 1/3 inch thickness (I just cooked the batter at one time — you can see how that looks in the pictures on the post on my blog-slick link above).
Cook the socca pizza. Turn the heat on medium, and after 3-4 minutes, you’ll notice bubbles forming. Keep the heat at medium-low and cover if splashing (it shouldn’t be splashing a lot – if it is, you need to lower the heat). Cook on one side for 7-8 minutes or until the bottom has hardened and started to turn golden (lift up a little to check). Once one side has cooked, use a large flat spatula to flip the socca on the other side. Add more oil if it looks dry. Cook for another 7-8 minutes or until that side has also turned golden. Turn off heat and prepare toppings while the crust cools a bit.
Sauté the veggies and prepare other toppings. For this version, I sautéed 4 green onion stalks till translucent and starting to caramelize and added to it 2 medium chopped tomatoes and a mix of 8-10 crimini and white button mushrooms in a tablespoon of olive oil. You can add whatever toppings you would like and have on hand.
Add cheese layer. Soft goat cheese is one of my favorites!
Add the other toppings. When the sautéed veggies have cooled a bit, add them on top of the pizza and spread evenly. Slice 15-20 olives and sprinkle evenly over pizza.
Slice and eat. Cut into fourths with a knife, and serve lukewarm. You can keep any leftovers in the fridge – it makes a great and filling lunch!
It doesn’t matter if you eat grain-free by choice or necessity — but I guarantee this recipe will make you reach for your coconut flour. You won’t find a chocolate cupcake anywhere that tastes even remotely as moist and flavorful as this one. Watch your grain-free AND wheat-loving friends inhale these treats. The best part? It’s power-packed with nourishing protein and fiber: the healthiness of a muffin with the taste factor of a cupcake. Bet you can’t eat just one…
In a large bowl, whisk ingredients together — EXCEPT the raspberries.
Fill muffin tins with batter.
Gently poke 3 raspberries into each muffin tin.
Bake 325* for 20 minutes.
These taste delicious stored in the fridge or eaten straight from the freezer.
To make mini muffin size, poke only one raspberry into each and bake ~12 minutes.
These freeze wonderfully and still retain their moistness.