Dehydrating adventures: Raw Onion Flat Bread

A few days ago, I made this raw onion bread for ‘Totally Raw Thursday’ which happens to be a day late since this is being posted on Friday.

While I’d seen posts about raw breads, most weren’t too appealing to me because of the high fat content that was used in them. Nuts, seeds, avocados, olives are loaded with nutrients but they also carry a high amount of fat.  Too much fat in my diet makes me sleepy, so I only consume it in small amounts.

I guess I should start at the beginning, right?

This raw onion flat bread is simple to make; it had five or six ingredients. The patience comes in waiting for your food to dehydrate.

I chose red onions for my flat bread, the flavor isn’t as strong as the onions I normally use.

Because I love color I also added carrots. Those colors are great together, aren’t they?

To add a bit more sweetness, I added a red pepper and roma tomatoes were tossed in for natural sodium.

To bind the ingredients I ground 1/4 cup of flax seeds. I wasn’t sure if this would be enough to bind the ingredients, but I was willing to experiment. You might be surprised at how much fat is in flax seeds or you might not care!  I let the ground flax seeds soak in about 1/2 cup of water for thirty minutes.  As you can see, it expanded!

I slowly added the flax seed mixture to the onions and garlic. Even though onions and carrots made a lot of dough. It looked like a 1/4 cup of my expanded flax seed mixture is enough to coat everything. Phew!

The next step was to slowly spread the ‘dough’ onto my Excalibur trays. This made enough to cover three trays.

See! Everything has been spread, no holes in the dough, either! Now the only thing left to do was wait. Waiting on something that smells this good? It wasn’t long before the house was filled with the aroma. It smelled so good! I will admit I was concerned with how it would taste, that’s a whole lot of onions!

Once they were finished, I cut them into squares with my Kitchen Aid Shears and now the main question, how do they taste?

I must say I’m pleased with the results. The raw onion bread dough made a fair amount, but unfortunately the raw onion flat bread is all gone. My daughter loved them (as much as myself) and I shared them with others.

I enjoyed making this onion flat bread. I like mild flavors to so I’m tasting the produce, so I went easy on the seasoning and enjoyed tasting the flavor of the onion, carrots, peppers and tomatoes. They worked well together. These were a pleasure to make and I loved how the bread was bursting with flavor. It was so good, that I ate a few without adding anything to them.

Eaten plain (as a chip) or made into a sandwich this was a healthy, low calorie, gluten free meal that is bursting with flavor.
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