Raw, Vegan BLT!
I used to love it when my mom made BLT’s for dinner. My mom was quite the cook and dinner was usually a fully cooked, pretty elaborate meal. Having a sandwich for dinner was not the norm and signified a more relaxed dinner.
I have been wanting to make a raw, vegan BLT for quite some time. Having tried many different recipes for a raw bread, I finally came up with one that reminds me of the wheat bread I miss. No, it is not gluten free, as I am using wheat berries and I don’t have a substitution yet. But I will work on it. Eggplant bacon, tomato and a avocado “butter” round out this sandwich. You can certainly substitute plain avocados for the avocado butter if you choose.
Raw "BLT's"
Honey Wheat Bread
- 2 cups wheat berries, sprouted and ground into flour
- 1 cup zucchini puree
- 1 apple
- 1 tablespoon honey (or agave for vegan version)
- 1 cup ground flax
- To make flour: Soak wheat berries for 24 hours, then rinse 2 x a day until small tails sprout. Dehydrate at 116 degrees until dry. Grind into flour.
- In food processor, place apple, zucchini puree and honey. Process until a puree is achieved.
- Mix together flour and ground flax.
- Stir puree mixture into flour mixture.
- Spread 1/4 inch thick on non-stick dehydrator sheets. Score mixture into bread sized squares. Dehydrate at 140 degrees for 1 hour, turn down heat and dehydrate at 116 degrees until tops are dry.
- Flip over, remove non-stick sheet and continue to dry. You want to make sure the bread dries but stays soft so, check and don’t over dehydrate.
Avocado Butter
- 2 avocados
- 1/2 cup cashews, soaked until soft
- pinch Himalayan salt
- pinch black pepper
- pinch ground chipotle
- Place all ingredients in food processor and pulse until well blended.
Eggplant Bacon
- See Recipe: Eggplant Bacon
Assembly
- Raw Honey Wheat Bread
- Cashew Butter
- Tomato
- Lettuce
- Eggplant Bacon
- Layer ingredients on bread to create sandwich!
Tonya wrote on August 21, 2011
For those who are wheat intollerant try Kamut or Spelt! Good luck!
Susan wrote on August 22, 2011
Kamut is actually wheat. Just in a different type. It contains gluten. Also, spelt contains gluten.
Candice wrote on July 28, 2011
Susan, I bought ground raw wheat berry flour at the healthfood store. How many cups of ground flour should I use? The recipe calls for 2 cups of whole berries but what does that equate to one it is ground? Is it still equal
2 cups of flour or does the dehydrating/grinding process make it less?
Susan wrote on August 1, 2011
Unfortunately, I have only done this recipe as written so, I don’t know how that substitution would go.
Joelle wrote on April 28, 2011
Oh….I was so hoping someone came up with an alternative to the wheat berries = (
Theresa wrote on July 22, 2010
This recipe looks delicious, I do so want to try it.You are so creative!
Should I use the hard or soft wheat to sprout for the bread?
Susan wrote on July 22, 2010
I used hard wheat for this as I believe it sprouts better.
Caleb wrote on July 22, 2010
This looks amazing!! Definitely going to have to try and make this one, especially since my dehydrator is back out of storage! 🙂
diann wrote on July 8, 2010
How do you make zucchini puree?
Susan wrote on July 8, 2010
You puree it. I normally do this in the food processor. Cut the zucchini into pieces and place in food processor. Process until you have a puree.
Diane wrote on July 4, 2010
You mentioned looking for a gluten-free substitution – I’ve been looking at some of the prepared GF stuff in the health food stores and seeing “sorghum flour” in a lot of them, which surprised me because I actually thought that was another word for wheat, but maybe not. I see a lot of chick pea and tapioca flour, too, in the lists of ingredients. I don’t know if there’s a sproutable, sorghum grain? I personally can’t digest chick pea/garbanzo anything.
Elizabeth D. wrote on July 2, 2010
I can’t wait to try these!!
I am going to get my wheat berries soaking right now so tomorrow I can get them a sproutin!
What a beautiful photograph. How do you take such amazing photos??
Peace & Health,
Elizabeth
Diana @ frontyardfoodie wrote on July 1, 2010
I’ve been wanting raw ‘bread’ lately. Maybe I’ll do this! Gotta get that dehydrator out some time!