I was reminded this week of seed crackers. Great for digestion, fully Banting and helpful because they keep you regular. I made them more than a year ago and documented the recipe on my blog. I need to make them again!
They are very moreish. Once you start nibbling, it’s hard to stop, but at least they are not laden with carbs. They only contain seeds and come from the book the Real Meal Revolution. The batch I made came to R70, but you can bring the price down by buying bigger quantities of seeds to start with. My friend, Riana, who has made tonnes of these and has been an expert adviser in the whole process, says you can get the price per batch down to about R40, which is great!
Ingredients:
- 3 cups of mixed seeds
- 2 heaped tablespoons of psyllium husks
- 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon of salt
- 500ml tap water
Instructions:
- Mix the seeds, husks and salt together.
- Add the water.
- Wait for the mixture to thicken.
- Spread on a lined baking tray.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 150C until brown and crisp (about an hour).
Here’s exactly what I did:
3 cups of seeds. I bought pumpkin, sunflower and sesame seeds. But you can use flaxseed which is also a less expensive seed.
Add to those, 2 heaped tablespoons of psyllium husks. Mix them all together with between half and three quarters of a teaspoon of salt…
Add to the seeds, 500ml of tap water…
Very quickly the psyllium husks start absorbing the water and binding it…it’s amazing. After about 10 minutes, you can stand a spoon up in the well bound, thick, gooey mixture…
Now, it’s time to smear it out on a tray. I didn’t have wax proof paper so I used tin foil. I sprayed it with spray and cook and using the flat side of a tablespoon I smoothed the mixture over the tray. I tried to get it quite thin…
It was now ready for the oven, which I had preheated to about 150C. In it went. After half an hour, I needed to cook supper, so I took it out and it cooled completely, allowing me the opportunity to cut it into pieces. After dinner, I put it back in and (almost) forgot about it. When they had browned, I turned the oven off and left them to dry out…the end product looked like this…
I also made a smaller tray of square ones…
There were 48 in total. But they are not big. If you go by the values on the seed packets, this batch contained 60g of carbs, so that’s 1.25g of carbs per cracker, which is much better than other savory biscuits! Altogether they were probably in the oven for about 1 and a half hours. Great for lunchboxes and snacks.
So, get cracking!
If you’ve got burdens today, I’ve got the answer…well not me, but the Bible…
Psalm 68:19
“Praise be to the Lord, to God our Saviour who daily bears our burdens.”
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx