Flaxseed Cauliflower buns
This is my own recipe for healthy, low carb, high fiber, gluten free sandwich buns.
You need to grind fresh, golden flaxseeds into meal. It has to be fresh ground, the flaxseed meal you can buy is rancid and tastes nasty. Just throw it in a blender, food processor, clean coffee or spice grinder, and grind to a fine meal, takes a few seconds in a blender.
Lightly grease a baking pan with olive oil, and put in two slices of bacon, cover that with cauliflower florets, half a red bell pepper and 3 peeled garlic cloves. Bake at 400F for 20 minutes or until the bacon fat is slightly crisp and the cauliflower slightly browned. Cool to room temp, put into a food processor or blender, and blend to a chunky mush, not liquid.
If you don't want the bacon and want it all vegan, add 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil to the wet ingredients. But it adds flavor, and contrary to popular belief, some pasture raised pork/fat is healthy and helps digest other nutrients. Some of the pork fat renders into the dough as it cooks, gives it that authentic hamburger bun glaze.
Measure exactly 120g of flaxseed meal into a large measuring bowl. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning, and 1 tablespoon psyllium husk powder. Wisk the dry ingredients together.
Add two room temperature large eggs, 2 ounces of room temperature soft goat cheese (or whole fat cream cheese), and 120g of the cauliflower mush. Mix together until it forms a sticky dough ball. Let sit for 10 minutes. If it is too wet or dry, add more flaxseed meal or more mush in 1 tablespoon increments. Let sit for 10 min again.
Line baking pan with parchment paper. Oil your hands generously with olive oil. Measure out the dough into 1/3 cup portions, and roll each into a ball. Press them down into a flat disc, between 1/4 and 1/2 inch thick.
Bake at 350F for 30 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack, and let cool completely.
I freeze them and pop one in the nuker or toaster oven. Of course it's not as good as real bread, but at least it has the texture of bread and is edible which I find most cauliflower bread isn't.
Last edited by Snorktop; 17th January 2024 at 08:00 AM..