Fennel Chia Seed Crackers with Rocket (Arugula) Pesto
With fennel, rocket (arugula) and these on-the-vine tomatoes in season now, what better way to celebrate this bounty than with a beautiful fresh pesto and crispy chia crackers.
This is actually a really simple little recipe; the vine tomatoes that I’ve plated these with just have a small amount of salt sprinkled over them with a drizzle of avocado oil. I’m still enjoying the leftovers as I write this now.
Chia crackers are much lighter and can more easily be made thinner than flax crackers, which is why a lot of people prefer them.
Enjoy.
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Fennel Chia Seed Crackers with Rocket (Arugula) Pesto
Nutrition (For one serving)
Calories: 2947kcalCarbohydrates: 302gProtein: 76gFat: 184gSaturated Fat: 20gSodium: 6886mgPotassium: 6957mgFiber: 141gSugar: 94gVitamin A: 9254IUVitamin C: 238mgCalcium: 2387mgIron: 34mg
Ingredients
Crackers
- 3 fennel bulbs
- 4 apples
- 1/2 lemon
- 3 tomatoes medium size
- 4 c;loves garlic
- 3/4 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp dill
- 1 1/2 cup chia seed dry
Rocket (arugula) pesto
- 7 oz rocket arugula
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup pine nuts
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
Crackers
- Juice the fennel, apple, lemon and tomato. Transfer this to a blender with the garlic and salt, then blend on full speed.
- Once the garlic has been blended in, add the dill and blend on a lower setting to break up the dill without blending it all into one colour, so the specks of green still show through. This will give a more attractive cracker in the end.
- In a bowl, combine the blended mixture with the chia and let that sit for 30 minutes. It will thicken up as the chia seeds go much more gelatinous. It’s better to juice all the ingredients as we’ve done here and soak the chia, rather than just blend all the ingredients up, as you might do with flax crackers, because too much fibre in chia crackers will stop them from crisping up.
- Spread this mixture as thinly as possible over two nonstick dehydrator sheets, covering the whole sheets.
- Dehydrate for 4 hours at 115 degrees F and then remove the nonstick sheet, transferring to a cutting board. Cut the crackers to the desired shape and size, which is easier at this stage, now they have been drying for 4 hours.
- Return the individual crackers to the dehydrator, just on a mesh sheet, and continue to dehydrate at 115 degrees F for 14 hours.
- Store for up to a week in a sealed container. If they go a little soft, they can be crisped up again in the dehydrator at 115 degrees for a few hours.
Rocket (arugula) pesto
- Grind all ingredients in a food processor, leaving it a little chunky.
- Can be kept in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 4 days.
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