2020: Sorry we no longer stock these dehydrators, but I’m leaving the recipe here 🙂
Anyone who has been into the shop to look at food dehydrators will probably end up hearing my stories of what I use mine for. The majority of customers buy them for jerky or fruit leathers but I’m a huge flaxseed cracker and kale chip fan.
Our Novital food dehydrator has 5 trays – as pictured above with my yummy cheesy kale chips – the yellow stuff is nutritional yeast. (Not as good as this recipe https://chefambershea.com/2012/08/13/practically-raw-recipe-pizza-kale-chips/ which is one of my favourites) You can can control the heat by turning on one or both heat elements. With one it is just around 50°C and both makes it closer to 60°C. Being slack I throw my soaked nuts and crackers in before bedtime (on the lower heat) and turn it off in the morning. Yes it is quiet enough to run in the laundry overnight without keeping anyone wake.
Helens flaxseed cracker recipe:
1 cup total of LSA, flaxseeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds – usually I have abit over 1/3 LSA, 1/3 flaxseed and the rest made of the other seeds. (This is where I get my seeds, nuts etc and they deliver really quickly in Perth http://2brothersfoods.com/ )
1/4 cup nutritional yeast (this the one I use http://www.iherb.com/Now-Foods-Nutritional-Yeast-Flakes-10-oz-284-g/688 )
1 teaspoon crushed/minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt – I love pink himalayan, use less if you are using a ‘salty’ processed salt
Optional extras: Lemon pepper, pulp from juicing, grated hard cheese to taste.
Mix all of the above in a bowl and add Water to mix… probably close to a cup – start with 1/2 cup and work on feel. It does soak up alot of water.
I usually leave mine on the bench soaking for at least 30 mins plus – up to a few hours while I’m doing other chores before spreading in the dehydrator shelf. You may find yourself adding more water as the mixture sits as it gets thicker. Its easier to remove/turn/flip the crackers if you use baking paper as in the picture below but the shelves clean very easily.
Yes you can make these in the oven – but you need to watch them so they don’t burn.
**I’ll check these measurements again in a few days on my next batch – it’s become very much throw everything in the bowl recipe at home. And yes Mr 5.5’s gluten free (and non gluten free) friends do eat these 🙂
Tested on 28th Jan 2015 and they worked perfectly and tasted yum. A single mix of the recipe ended up making enough cracker blobs to fill 2 trays.
