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Mini Flax Pizza Bites
This mini flax pizza are very delicious and healthy too.
Servings24 crackers
Nutrition (For one serving)
Calories: 129kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 4gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 69mgPotassium: 452mgFiber: 4gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 614IUVitamin C: 12mgCalcium: 54mgIron: 2mg
Ingredients
Flax cracker base
- 1/2 cup flax seeds
- 1/2 cup flax meal
- 6 tomatoes medium size
- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes soaked 2 hours or more
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/4 cup fresh basil
- 3 tbsp dried Italian herb mix
- 3 onions medium size
- 1 clove garlic
Pine nut cheese spread
- 1/2 cup pine nuts
- 1/2 cup macadamias
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp nutritional yeast
- 1/4 cup water
Tomato sauce
- 4 tomatoes medium size, de-seeded
- 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes soaked 2 hours or more
- 1 soft dates
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp fresh basil
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Pesto
- 2 cups basil tightly packed
- 1 tbsp rosemary minced
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
Flax cracker base
- Grind all ingredients in a food processor.
- Spread evenly and thinly over 2 nonstick dehydrator trays, right to the edges, and then use a knife or spatula to score into individual squares.
- Dehydrate at 105 degrees for 3 hours. Then invert onto another mesh dehydrator tray to finish drying in the dehydrator for a further 10 – 18 hours.
Pine nut cheese spread
- Grind all ingredients in a food processor.
Tomato sauce
- Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth.
Pesto
- Pulse all ingredients in a food processor until broken down, but leave some texture to the finished pesto.
Assembly
- Start with the flax cracker as a base, to which you’ll add a layer of the nut cheese spread.
- Next comes the tomato sauce. Top with some pesto.
- Garnish with olives, capers and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning.
Variation: This recipe works great using marinated whole mushrooms as a base instead of flax crackers.
- Marinate 12 mushrooms in 1/4 cup tamari and 1/4 cup olive oil for 2 hours or more.
- Fill the mushroom caps with the nut cheese, tomato sauce and pesto. Going heavier on the amount of pesto works really nicely with mushrooms.
- Once the mushrooms are stuffed, place in the dehydrator at 105 degrees F to warm through for 1 – 2 hours.
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Even when I went raw for 9 months, the migraines did not stop. I recently found out why. Nutritional yeast triggers migraines for me! Sad day. Do you have any suggestions as to how to spike up the flavor without NY or soy sauce or aminos etc?
Sorry to hear that! What a shame. Yes, you can use garlic and onion powder and also smoked paprika adds lovely flavour! Nothing quiet like NY yeast though, sadly.
wow thats alot of $$$$ with all those pine nuts and mac nuts. can you use cashews and walnuts????? some of us dont have money to burn on those kind no mater how good for you they are. we need affordable. can you do affordable recipes please. figure people who have house income of less then $25,000. even us lower middle class and the poor like healthy.
Hi Megan,
Thanks for commenting and letting me know what you need.
Yes, you can absolutely substitute the pine nuts and macadamias for cheaper nuts like cashews and walnuts in this recipe.
Hi from Museum of cossacs Foods!:)
Thanks for the info – I’m in Australia 😉
In Australia:
http://www.goodness.com.au
Link for sun dried tomatoes
http://www.goodness.com.au/Organic-Tomatoes-Sundried-10KG.html#.VxXpPcgmLCQ
Hello! I’m wondering about the Sun dried tomatoes that are used in your recipes. The only ones I seem to be able to get hold of are the ones soaked in oil either in jars or at the Deli – can these be used? Or do I need to dry my own tomatoes in the dehydrator first? Thank you, I’m new to this raw food caper and a little lost 😉
Hey, no worries, thanks for stopping by.
I know, it can be a little confusing can’t it.
The ones in oil aren’t ideal, as they can have extra nasties added that you don’t want. You also don’t know the quality of the oil they’re in.
I’m not sure where you’re based, but here’s a link to the type of tomatoes I’m talking about. You should be able to find them in your country if it’s not the UK.
http://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/sun-dried-tomatoes-infinity-1kg.html
Hi Kitacooch, I am in Australia also. I buy organic sundried tomatoes from Honest to Goodness, they are based in Sydney but have online ordering, there is a minimum purchase of $500 for wholesale accounts, but it is good to buy bulk organic nuts, dried fruits, seeds, etc. If you buy your sundried tomatoes from there, be sure to soak them in warm water to hydrate them before adding them to oil, I tried soaking them in oil straight up but they remained very chewy.
Hello! I’m wondering about the Sun dried tomatoes that are used in your recipes. The only ones I seem to be able to get hold of are the ones soaked in oil either in jars or at the Deli – can these be used? Or do I need to dry my own tomatoes in the dehydrator first? Thank you, I’m new to this raw food caper and a little lost 😉
Hey, no worries, thanks for stopping by.
I know, it can be a little confusing can’t it.
The ones in oil aren’t ideal, as they can have extra nasties added that you don’t want. You also don’t know the quality of the oil they’re in.
I’m not sure where you’re based, but here’s a link to the type of tomatoes I’m talking about. You should be able to find them in your country if it’s not the UK.
http://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/sun-dried-tomatoes-infinity-1kg.html
this recipe is excellent!! I’ve also done it with the mushrooms and did a walnut meat layer from the lasagna. Delicious!! Even my omni coworkers loved them!!
Love it! Thanks, Natalie.
Thanks, looks great and I love pizza! Great to have a pizza snack with great ingredients!
Looks terrific!
Thanks, Amit. Glad you like the look of it.
This sounds delicious, but I wonder what the calorie count is. It´s not enough to eat raw.
To loose weight, I have to count calories. Nuts are extremely caloric. Going from a paleo diet to a raw foods diet, I gained weight. This is what worries me about going raw.
If you go raw, you don’t have to calorie count. The natural fats are good fats, and you don’t necessarily have to make everything with oil or fats. A lot of the oils, even in desserts can actually be replaced with avocados, as it has a smooth creamy texture. Give raw a try! I am losing weight!Â
I was wondering if you can do a “cheese spread” without nuts, when I want to do this to nut free people?
I’m in the process of doing a nut-free eBook so watch this blog over the next 2 weeks 🙂
wow it looks delicious !
Chef James, could one use almonds instead of pine nuts and macadamias for the cheese? Both are terribly expensive here now. Cashews? Can you give us a hint as to how we would need to adjust the taste if we were to substitute? (Since we are out of pine nuts, we can't try the original recipe to compare yet.) I hope pine nuts come down in price at the end of the summer.
Hi, yes you can use almonds with no other substitutions needed.
In Australia most organic nuts are quit expensive. Organic sunflower seeds are much cheaper. I used to make lots of pâtés with sunflower seeds. They probably don’t Taste as nice as pine nuts or cashews but weren’t bad once you adjusted the flavour with lemon, salt and othe herbs/spices.
These are lovely, the tomato sauce is spot on – smells and tastes fantastic!
I am so excited to have discovered your blog! My husband and I have tried making some recipes from a few raw food books so far, and very few of them were that exciting. We tried your pizza bites recipe today and were completely blown away by how tasty it was! Thank you so much for sharing it – we can’t wait to try more of your recipes now.
The recipe is so delicious especially if you include the maca powder as a ingredient.
Yes! The greatest raw pizza we’ve ever, ever made and ate with such relish, my 17 year old twins are putting on a party and making this dish for their friends! Oh, yeah, the good times just keep on rollin’. Thanks so much from all of us (8 kids)
These are adorable. I’d much rather have these over those bagel bites in the freezer section.
Again, another hit with my family. They liked them so much I made this as a whole pizza the 2nd time around – so much easier for 3 teenagers & 1 hungry husband. Where are the instructional DVD’s ??? 😀
Those three sauces are all permanent tenants of the various jars in my fridge, whip up any meal in no time!
Thanks for the recipe Russell always a treat to see you photos and read your ideas.
The master does it again. Magnifique my friend!