Description
Use:
- Porridge - just pour hot water or plant-based or animal milk over the amaranth flakes
- Cream soups - add amaranth flakes into a vegetable soup, cook for a bit and blend, be careful with the added amount
- Pastry - replace 1/4 of flour with amaranth flakes when preparing home-made bread, pancakes, cookies or rolls
- Smoothie - blend your favourite fruit with water, plant-based drink or milk, add cooked amaranth flakes, seeds, yoghurt, syrup, vegetables or anything else
- Hash browns, rissoles, meat loaf - blend amaranth flakes slightly with steamed or roasted vegetables, cooked legumes, add an egg, fried onion, herbs, garlic, salt and water (if necessary), fry or bake in the oven
- Spreads - pour a little bit of water over slightly roasted vegetables, add amaranth flakes (just a little bit to thicken), cook for a couple minutes and blend, season with soy sauce, umevinegar and nutritional yeast, you can also add tofu or tempeh
- Unbaked cookies - blend amaranth flakes with pre-soaked dried fruit, coconut oil and syrup, you can also add seeds, nuts, dried coconut, carob powder or cinnamon; form into the shape of balls and cover them in dried coconut, carob or sesame
Amaranth belongs among pseudo-cereals, which means that it does not belong to cereal grass but its use in the kitchen is the same. Grain and from the grain grounded flour are used mainly in the food-processing industry, and so are the leaves. Sometimes it is also used as a feed in agriculture. Pastry and pasta for people with celiac diet are mainly prepared from the amaranth flour. Flavour related, amaranth flour enriches not only pastry, but also cocoa (for example).
The plant, which amaranth is derived from, is called Amaranthus. It was grown in Central America by the Aztecs and Incas already 4,000 BC. Today, amaranth is predominantly cultivated in the tropics, where the grain is harvested up to three times a year. One grain has very small dimensions and weight.
Organic food always goes through a system of checks and certifications that ensures their quality and enables them to bear this designation. Their organic quality is particularly appreciated by people with an interest in organic farming and a sustainable farming system.
Composition
Amaranth flakes*. May contain traces of gluten, peanuts, soy, nuts and sesame. *product of controlled organic farmingStorage
Store in a cold and dry place.
