Mild Olive Rosemary Bread
Makes 1 dehydrator sheet of thick bread, 2 dehydrator sheets of thin crackers
Reminiscent of “real” olive-rosemary bread but pleasantly mild. I made this because I am always looking for new ways to use pulp left over from juicing but also because I craved a very simple, mild-tasting bread/cracker raw-edible, one that I could nibble by itself or make into a bruschetta, or eat with a dip, versatile without being bland. Since I used beet pulp, mine turned out a pretty terracotta color, which I find psychologically soothing…Try with any mild veggies. The green pepper lightens up the flavor a bit (the olives and pumpkins seeds make it heavier.)
Ingredients
- 2 cups pumpkin seeds, soaked
- 3 cups carrot pulp, (from juicing)
- 1 cup beet and celery pulp, (from juicing)
- 25 olives, pitted
- 1 cup fresh rosemary (3-4 long stems)
- 1 green bell pepper
Preparation
1. Soak pumpkin seeds for 6 hours. Process with enough filtered water to make it smooth. 2. Add in green pepper, pitted olives, and rosemary. 3. Add in vegetable pulp. 4. When the mixture is smooth from processing, spread thickly (my preference) onto dehydrator sheet. 5. Dehydrate for 24 hours, turning over once.
Comments
kandace writes: (February 25, 2007)
I have this recipe in the dehydrator right now. I’m noticing that, as it dehydrates, breaks are happening (making small odd-shaped pieces). Is this normal?
LovefoodLaughter writes: (February 28, 2007)
Hmmm… I hope they’re not too small! I’ve been experimenting with dehydrator-cracker textures lately… I’ve found that for this recipe, since I like it not to crumble when I do it up bruschetta-style, if I knead the batter first, either with my hands or with a spatula, I will get a much more resilient cracker. If once I spread it on the teflex sheet I “draw” a checker-board onto the batter with the edge of the spatula, then the batter will break into the regular squares that I’ve delineated in the dehydrator. That said, I think irregularly-shaped crackers are very nice too, as long as they’re not too tiny! I’ll try the recipe again, to make sure I gave the right proportions…
kandace writes: (March 07, 2007)
When I got this out of the dehydrator, there were already breaks, but all were big enough to be cracker-sized (next time, I’ll try scoring first just to see the difference). The color is delightful and the crackers go really well with raw hummus and tomato.
writeeternity writes: (June 17, 2007)
This looks great. I just got a juicer today so I’ll be trying this soon!
lauraj writes: (August 06, 2007)
Are olives raw/ I don’t have any technically raw sundried olives, and I wondered if the kalamata olives you find in jars at the store are raw/
docrona writes: (April 09, 2008)
this sounds magnificent i’ve been looking for a nice veggie ‘bread’ recipe will likely use this as a guide and report back thank you mmmmmm :)
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