I really enjoy trying a new delicious and simple recipe. That’s why I was so excited when I came across this one from the Bread Experience!
These little delights are made with sesame seeds, salt, water, olive oil, and fresh Einkorn flour. They are healthy, great tasting, and very simple to make.
I usually tell people that whole grain pastas were never meant to be. They are slimy, don’t mix in the flavor of the sauce, and fall apart very easily on the plate. But after eating einkorn pasta, I’m taking that all back.
Jovial Foods Spaghetti Whole Grain Einkorn Pasta
I never considered that einkorn pasta could be very different than any other whole grain pasta until Jovial sent a free sample to talk about on the blog. Even then, it sat on my shelf for quite some time because I didn’t think it was worth trying.
Finally, I felt up to it one day and cooked the pasta for dinner. WOW! I loved it, and so did my entire family. I went to The Good Earth (our local health food store) and found it to be available at a great discount so I bought several more boxes.
A special dinner with guests was coming up so I decided to cook up the einkorn pasta with my special pesto recipe. It was a hit with our guests too!
The einkorn pasta adds a perfect flavor to the dish and it doesn’t taste grainy or feel slimy. Instead, it was sweet, slightly nutty, rich in flavor, the texture was very desirable. Einkorn’s nutritional qualities combined with the tasty pasta make it real winner in my book. Nice work Jovial!
I noticed they have several types of einkorn pasta listed for sale on Amazon but it’s often out of stock so it must be popular. Check out some of the pastas they offer:
Thanks to Jovial, I can eat whole grain pasta (and like it). Have any of you tried the einkorn pasta from Jovial? If so, leave a comment. I’m interested to know how you liked it.
I posted my einkorn bread recipe last month and now that voting season is coming to a close, I’m finally getting around to telling you about the delicious Honey Whole Grain Einkorn Pitas I baked up. I’ll be honest: I was pleasantly surprised to see and taste pitas made from einkorn berries. Not only were they delicious but they were also very light and the texture was perfect!
I first combined all of the ingredients into my Bosch bowl and mixed them completely. After mixing, I started adding freshly ground whole grain einkorn flour to the bowl until the pita mixture stopped sticking to the sides of the mixer bowl.
Keep Adding Einkorn Flour Until Pita Mixture Stops Sticking to Side of Bowl
Next, I kneaded the dough for 8 minutes then divided it into 18 dough balls. I floured a surface and then rolled the dough balls into ¼-inch thick circles. Keep in mind that Continue reading →
I recently ground some ancient einkorn grain and made some flour for baking. I first made tortillas, which were excellent. Then I got carried away… 🙂
We loved the nutritious einkorn tortillas so much, I went on to make pitas, bread, and cherry cobbler. I’m going to share my pictures and recipe for the bread first and then I’ll get to sharing the tortillas and pitas as soon as I can. But first I’ll tell you about the bread…and then pitas and finally tortillas! The full einkorn bread recipe is posted under the recipe section.
(Note: if you’re looking for the einkorn sourdough bread recipe, you’ll want to go here.)
Einkorn grinds into such a light and soft flour, I was afraid it would plug up my All Grain mill. However, even with my mill on the finest setting, it milled out flour just fine. However, for the bread, tortillas and pitas, I decided to move the setting 3/4 fine. Next time, I will try an even finer setting.
All Grain Mill with Genuine Einkorn Wheat Berries
After 45 minutes or so of grinding the einkorn wheat grains in my mill, I had enough einkorn flour to make the tortillas, bread, pitas, and a little extra for cobbler.
To make bread, I put 3 Cups of hot tap water and 5 Cups of einkorn flour into my Bosch and mixed them until smooth. I then stopped the mixer and added 1/3 Cup of expeller-pressed coconut oil, 1/3 Cup raw, unfiltered honey, 1 1/2 Tablespoons of yeast, and then 1 Tablespoon of sea salt.
Mixing Ingredients to Make Einkorn Bread
After mixing all the ingredients together, I kept the mixer running and gradually added 5 1/2 Cups of einkorn flour and let it sit for 20 minutes. After this brief rest, I started the mixer and slowly added more flour until the einkorn dough was no longer sticking to the sides of the mixer bowl. I learned that making einkorn bread does require more flour than I thought it would but eventually it did stop sticking to the mixer bowl. Continue reading →
We take for granted many things in our day to day lives. I suppose it’s essential to cope with the busy schedule all working adults must deal with. Consider for a moment: Store-bought flour and baked products. Most of us assume that the grain used to make all the baked goods and even the packaged flour comes to us much like the story of The Little Red Hen. She planted the wheat, she watered the wheat, she harvested the wheat, threshed it, took it to the mill to be ground, took the flour home and then baked bread. Mmm Mmmm good, etc.
Well, up until 1870’s that is basically what happened and on the surface it may not seem to be any different now. But as the saying goes: the devil is in the details… From the book, “The Story of a Grain of Wheat” by William C. Edgar (1904) we read the following:
“The substitution of rolls for mill-stones was the most radical advance ever made in the science of milling. Continue reading →
If there were a single change to our daily diet that would significantly increase our daily antioxidant intake, what would that change be? Eat einkorn bread.
Einkorn's Superior Antioxidant Levels Preserved
I came across some very interesting researcha recently regarding the loss of antioxidants (specifically carotenoids) during the food processing process in the production of bread, water biscuits and pasta. The flours they studied? There were three: Einkorn, bread wheat, and durum wheat semolina.
In all three flours, antioxidant levels decreased significantly through the processing stages but einkorn was significantly more successful at preserving its high antioxidant levels through the entire baking process than the other flours. I thought that was interesting.
You may remember my former post about einkorn nutrition, when I shared some information about einkorn’s superior antioxidant attributes:
Einkorn contains 3 to 4 times more beta-carotene than modern wheats (Boosts immunity, helps prevent cancer and heart disease)
Einkorn contains 35 times more Vitamin A than modern wheats (Healthy eyes, reproductive organs and prevention of many cancers)
Einkorn contains 3 to 4 times more lutein than modern wheats (Prevention of macular degeneration and cataracts)
Einkorn contains 4-5 times more riboflavin than modern wheats (Used by the body to create energy and is an antioxidant that slows aging)
Not only are antioxidants much higher in einkorn compared with other grains but now, with the results of this recent study, we learn that einkorn’s carotenoid levels are also better preserved in the bread making process, making it an ideal candidate for improving our modernized diets.
Can you imagine the effect it would have on the health of a child if he or should could grow up eating this ancient einkorn wheat? The more I think about the impact, the more I realize the need to increase the production of this crop and get it into the hands of more people throughout the world.
I’m a mother of 4 kids (with one more on the way) and the worst feeling for me is to provide a healthy breakfast meal first thing in the morning. I try to feed my family healthy foods but sometimes the “cheap cold cereal” is all too tempting as a cop-out meal in the morning…I’m sure you know the feeling 🙂
Cooking Einkorn Pancakes
In the last year, I discovered “blender” pancakes in one of those cook books sitting on my shelf (I can’t remember the book). The pancakes are so easy to make and it’s very quick. My kids and husband also love them.
Over time, I modified the recipe to use more natural and healthy ingredients; Since we eat this meal so often, I wanted to make it as healthy as possible for the family.
You can see my recipe by clicking here. I’ve also added some additional comments and pictures below so you can see better how I have made this work for our family.
When I first made this recipe, I was surprised at how simple and easy it was. It took actually making it to realize just how simple it was so I’ve broken it out into 4 simple steps below.
Fresh whole grain goodness on it's way to become finely ground flour!
I just ground some fresh whole-grain einkorn flour. It’s beautiful, slightly yellow and about as soft as powdered sugar. The household grain mill that I used did an awesome job. I can’t wait to make pancakes!
There are many different mills on the market that are easy to use and not too expensive. The big draw for most people in owning your own grain mill is the taste of baked goods made with freshly ground whole grains and the satisfaction of just knowing that you’re getting pure whole-grain goodness with all the nutrients you can possibly get from your grain. Flour bought in a bag from the store loses a large portion of it’s vitamins by the time you get it.
Personally, I own two household grinders: the K-Tec Kitchen Mill and the Country Living Grain Mill. I like the K-Tec for it’s speed and the superfine texture it can grind the grain to. I like the Country Living Grain Mill for it’s versatility, control over the fineness of the flour and relatively efficient hand-grinding.
Household grinders fall into three basic categories: 1) Ceramic Stone Grinders, 2) Steel Burr Grinders and 3) High-speed Impact Grinders. Like most things in life, these have their advantages and disadvantages. So, I’ll list them here and let you decide which is the right type for you and your family.
Ceramic Stone Grinders
Advantages:
Grinds finer flour than burr grinders and is on par with high-speed impact grinder.
Adjustable coarseness: ranges from cracked wheat and fine flour.
Good in a power failure or emergency (if your unit can be hand-turned).
Disadvantages:
Manual stone grinders are usually harder to turn than manual burr grinders.
Stones will gum up almost instantly if you try to grind oil bearing seeds.
Slow and tiring if you are turning by hand.
Steel Burr Grinders
Advantages:
Grinds oil bearing seeds as well as dry grains – burrs will not gum up.
Adjustable coarseness: ranges from racked wheat and fine flour.
Resists damage if you miss a stone in your grain. (I always sort through my grain before milling.)
High Carbon Steel burrs from Country Living Grain Mill
If you are turning by hand, these are generally easier than stone grinders
Good in a power failure if it can be hand-turned.
Disadvantages:
Will not grind quite as fine as a ceramic stone grinder.
Slow and tiring if you are turning by hand.
High-speed Impact Grinders
Advantages:
Grinds grain into very fine flour.
Grinds grain very quickly.
No sweat dripping down your face afterward.
Disadvantages:
Very loud (I use ear plugs when using mine…problem solved.)
May self-destruct if you miss a large stone in your grain. (REPEAT: Always sort through your grain before milling.)
Impossible to completely clean it out if you want to avoid mixing with other types of grain. (Think allergies.)
Even on the coarsest setting the flour comes out pretty fine. No “cracked wheat” or graham flour here.
Must have electricity. (This would be important in the event of an extended power failure.)
My in-laws (and their ill-prepared neighbors) were glad they had extra food stored at their house when hurricane Fran steamrolled Raleigh, NC in 1996. Store shelves were bare before the first rain-drop even fell on land and the power was out on their street for more than a week. There is a lot that goes into emergency preparedness and having an appropriate grinder on hand might be an important step.
If you’re asking yourself whether Einkorn contains gluten, the answer is “Yes, it absolutely does!”…but I have a secret to tell you. And I should probably disclose that this is not something your “everyday family doctor” is going to tell you. Here’s the secret: not all wheat gluten is created equal.
Tasty Pancakes with Blueberry Syrup
I like to explain by comparing sucanat and aspartame sweeteners. Imagine pouring a perfectly sweetened blueberry syrup over your hot-off-the-stove pancakes for your morning breakfast. If that syrup is made from natural sucanat sweetener or aspartame, it’s going to taste great either way. However, inside your body, the aspartame is killing brain cells while the sucanat is an unmodified substance that most people’s body can process naturally, without any damage to the body.
Einkorn has an entirely different genetic makeup than modern wheat. Modern wheats have been hybridized through years and years and millions and millions of $$$ in research. The goal of hybridization has been to increase yields, fight against plant disease, pests, weather conditions, etc. and many are starting to wonder if this long history of hybridization is the explanation for the rising number of people with a high intolerance to gluten.
I’m not saying I have all the answers…that’s why I have this website and it’s why I am researching the history and nutritional properties of Einkorn.
Most modern wheat is a hybrid of many different grains and grasses.
Einkorn has a 14 chromosomes , whereas modern wheat has a 42 chromosomes which changes the gluten structure
Einkorn is considered more nutritious than modern wheat, based on the higher level of protein, essential fatty acids, phosphorous, potassium, pyridoxine, and beta-carotene.
Is it any wonder that so many people today are plagued with allergies and even extreme sickness as a result of eating modern wheat?
Anyway, getting back to the original question of whether Einkorn flour contains gluten. Most people ask this question because they would like to start eating bread again. I hope my answer gives you some hope.
Additionally, I have met some doctors who are working with suffers of celiac and gluten intolerance to see if they can safely eat specific, tested sources of Einkorn. These patients are going through a healing regimen first to get to this point and the initial results are very promising.
but it’s often out of stock so it must be popular. Check out some of the pastas they offer:
