Sandwiches

Chris is a baker, so a drawback to eating primarily raw means no bread!  But Chris is always eager to try new things, especially when it means using his fancy new dehydrator in the bakery, so he whipped up this Raw Bread recipe the other day, which we enjoyed for lunch yesterday.  While this is certainly not like traditional bread at all, it is a dense, delicious version that serves the purpose of creating a sandwich between its layers.  We had avocado mayo, tomato, celery & lettuce in them, and I added a little cold-smoked salmon in mine.  Fresh pineapple on the side.

Yummy Sandwich on Raw Bread

Nut-free bread – yet another recipe courtesy of The Raw Chef Blog
Makes 18 ’slices’

1/2c olive oil
1 ½c sun dried tomatoes
3c sprouted buckwheat (2 ½c dry & unsprouted)
1 ½c flax meal (we only had flax seeds)
3 ½c peeled zuchinni, roughly chopped
2c apple, cored and roughly chopped
3T lemon juice
2 avocados
1 large onion
½c minced parsley

– Process the olive oil, sun dried toms, sprouted buckwheat, zuchinni, apple, lemon juice, avocados, onion and herbs until thoroughly mixed.

– Transfer to a large bowl and mix with the flax meal by hand. The reason you do this separately (not in the processor) is that you are likely to have too much mixture for the size if the processor at this point, and when you add the flax meal it will become quite heavy and sticky and overwork your machine.

– When mixed, process the whole batter in the machine again, but in small batches to achieve a light fluffy texture.

– Divide the mixture in half and place on Paraflexx sheets on dehydrator trays.

– Use a spatula to spread the mixture evenly to all 4 sides and corners of the Paraflexx sheet. If mixture is too sticky you can wet the spatula to make things easier. With a knife score the whole thing into 9 squares.

– Dehydrate for 2 hours and then remove the Paraflexx sheets by placing another dehydrator tray and mesh on top and invert so that your original sheet of bread is upside down. That will allow you to peel the Paralexx sheet off and continue to dehydrate the underside of the bread.

– Dehydrate for approx 8 hours more (do this overnight so you’re not tempted to eat it before it’s ready) or until bread feels light in your hand. If the pieces don’t fully come apart where you scored, use a knife to cut them.