Today’s experiment is from Alissa Cohen’s Living on Live Food
I was thinking that soaking these would be like soaking nuts and such - a difference in size but not dramatic. I was wrong. When we got home from errands and I saw that the flax seeds appeared to have absorbed ALL of the water, I was really surprised. Even more surprising was when I went to touch them and they gave like a foam or something - ew!!!! And when I turned them out into the food processor - oh my gosh, gloop city! Soaked flax seeds make SLIME!!!!!
As Alissa notes in her book, putting the flax seeds in the food processor doesn’t actually break them down into a powder, it just mixes the other ingredients in better than you could probably ever do with a spoon or a spatula. I have read that flax seeds in their whole form are pretty worthless from a nutrition standpoint because your body can’t break them down, so I’m a little confused about their role in this recipe. It may just be for crunch, or perhaps soaking them breaks down the outer fibers so that your body can get to the insides. At the very least, it seems like they’d be good little brooms for your innards.
These were slightly difficult to spread around given the truly disgusting texture (I’m going to let my nine year old do it the next time, if these are tasty - he’ll get a kick out of it), so they may end up being too thick. We’ll see. They’re in the dehydrator now and won’t be ready until morning ….
Next Day Update …
They’re great!! One layer didn’t dry out as much as it should have, but the other did and they’re crisp and yummy. I didn’t even put any salt on them, which is huge for me, the original Saltaholic.
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