Amazingly easy flax crackers
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I have created disasters and successful accidents, and I am proud to say that this is a successful accident. I wanted to soak flax seeds for a bread recipe, and when I got around to checking their progress, all I discovered was a gooey mixture of flax seeds that would refuse to drain. I didn’t want to waste my precious flax seeds so I just popped them in the dehydrator et voila! crackers!
Ingredients
Preparation
Pour any amount of flax seeds in a large bowl and slightly cover with filtered water. Soak for 30 minutes. At this point the consistency should be gooey. If you would like, you may place the seeds in a colander to drain whatever excess water that remains. Pour the mixture onto teflex sheets and dehydrate at 110 degrees for about 24 hours, flipping when the crackers are easy enough to handle without falling apart.
Comments
rawmama writes: (May 18, 2008)
:) The gooeyness of soaked flax seeds is what keeps them together as crackers. If you let them soak for about 2 hours, they will have soaked up all the water and be less slimy, or I should say a different type of slimy…thicker glop of flax LOL! :) Great discovery! I tried washing off the goo when I first started eating raw and it just doesn’t happen, you can get rid of some, but not all :)
Greenfish33 writes: (May 27, 2008)
thanks so much for the tip! I guess Juliano can’t be right all the time with his soaking table.
samesofam writes: (August 19, 2008)
suppose one did this in an oven. does a cookie sheet substitute well for “teflex” (which i have no idea what it is)? should i use some parchment paper or something? s
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