Are You Sick of Wheat Yet? I Hope Not - More Ideas for Using Wheat!

More Ideas for Using Wheat

1. Use a crock pot, double boiler, or rice cooker to cook the wheat.
2. Substitute wheat for rice or beans in any recipe.
3. Use what as a breakfast cereal. You can crack it, roll it and/or mix it with a variety of other grains. Add honey, nuts, milk or cream, and fruits such as raisins or dates.
4. Cook the wheat as you would rice, adding bouillon to flavor the water. Saute onions, celery, mushrooms and other vegetables of your choice to make wheat pilaf.
5. Mix any gravy or cream sauce with wheat and bake in a casserole dish topped with cheese.
6. Substitute wheat for rice in any fried rice dish, mixing it with chopped ham or sauteed vegetables.
7. Extend hamburger for tacos by adding cooked wheat berries. Use half beef and half wheat.
8. Grind cooked wheat and mix it with uncooked salmon, tuna, hamburger, roast beef, spam and spices. Form the mixture into patties and fry as you would hamburgers.
9. Sprout wheat and use it when the sprout is about half the size of the wheat kernel. Once wheat sprouts, ti becomes much more nutritious.

How to Cook Whole Wheat:

When cooking wheat, the rule of thumb is to use 2 cups water and 1/2 teaspoon salt for 1 cup of wheat. Rinse wheat. Place ingredients into sauce pan, bring to full boil, then turn heat down and simmer until he wheat is tender. Stir occasionally. Add a little more water if needed.

Crunchy Wheat Cereal:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In heavy saucepan add 3 cups washed wheat kernels to 8-1/2 cups of water. Bring to a boil and boil for two minutes.  Cover with a lid and put in the oven. TURN OVEN OFF. Leave in oven overnight. Eat warm in the morning with milk and sugar or honey. Store leftovers in the fridge and re-heat as wanted.

Cracked Wheat Cereal:

1/3 cup whole wheat kernels. Wheat can be cracked in a hand wheat grinder set on medium coarse setting. Or it can be cracked in an electric blender. Place wheat in the blender and run it on high for about 30 to 45 seconds. In a heavy saucepan mix 1-1/3 cups cool water with 1/3 cup cracked wheat and 1/4 tsp. salt. Place on stove over high heat. Stir frequently until the mixture comes to a boil. Turn down heat and let the cereal simmer for 10 minutes or until the kernels are tender. Serve warm with milk, honey or sugar.

Steamed Wheat:

1 cup whole wheat
2 cups water
1/2 tsp salt

Rinse whole wheat kernels. Use a steamer with water in the bottom to steam the wheat. Bring water to a boil, cover the pan with a lid, reduce heat add steam wheat until tender, about 20 minutes. This method makes pump and fluffy wheat berries. Makes 2 cups. Use in stir fry, salads.

Sprout - turn it magically into a vegetable!

The above are VERY basic recipes on wheat. Wheat is so easy to store and last such a long time, you might as well start practicing. The least it can do is make you healthier!

~Karin