pastry that tastes like normal pastry

[blix]

Yesterday, I experimented with some pastry. Now, I don't have a deyhydrator yet, so I am initially trying to find a recipe that works, so I cooked it for 12 mins in the oven. When I get my dehydrator this year I will do it properly.
I used 1/2 ounce of ground pecans, 1 1/2 ounces of ground almonds and 1 ounce of pea protein powder. For the fat, I used 1/2 ounce of coconut oil. and I used just enough water to start to bind it. Just like normal pastry. Of course, it was sticky and I had to roll it out in between two sheets of cling film, but it tased very good. A bit like digestive biscuits but with a pecan taste. The texture was like digestive biscuits too. I used just 1/2 ounce coconut oil as I was trying to offset the oil in the nuts.
Any suggestions would be helpful and appreciated. I dont want dates or walnuts in the pastry as I find them too strong. I am trying to find something like normal pastry. Would using sprouted wheat grains put through the matstone help??:)

[Revvell]

pea protein powder? I've never heard of that. Being the curious type, why and how did you find that? Is it raw?

We were at a fund-raiser not too long ago at Taste of the Goddess and they had a pie/turnover, SOMETHING ~ that had pastry. It was sooooo thin and crispy. If someone could find THAT recipe, that would be waaay cool!

Revvell

[deberaw]

...I've made flour with soaked/sprouted/dehydrated/ground kamut and spelt:D

[tvillemom]

Thin and crispy pie crust??? Is that possible....we have to find the recipe for that!
Revell: Do you know the people who made it? Would they be willing to share the recipe??

I think I will give sprouted/dried/ground grains a try.

Thanks for the tip

[Revvell]

Thin and crispy pie crust??? Is that possible....we have to find the recipe for that!
Revell: Do you know the people who made it? Would they be willing to share the recipe??


Nope! Dunno. As I said, I had it at Taste of the Goddess. Might email them. I'd like to know myself but not requested it from them, yet.

Revvell

[tvillemom]

Ok...Revvell....here's the plan...

BEG, PLEAD, OFFER UP..I DON'T KNOW, SOME KINDA BRIBE??!!! LOL..just kidding (kinda) Maybe they will be kind enough to share!:D

[lily]

It would be wonderful to have that thin, crispy pastry recipe...

blix -- your pastry sounds good. I'm not sure that pea protein powder is really raw, though i don't know for sure... maybe you could use something else instead such as powdered wheat grain or oat grain.

lily

[sport]

Revvell
You could offer to interview them in return for the recipe. They may want the publicity.

[tvillemom]

Sport, that is SO FUNNY! I was thinking the same thing...like, "Hey Revvell, ask them if they would like an interview!!" BUT, I was afraid I was being to forward......LOL.

Glad someone else mentioned it....GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE!!:D

[blix]

I bought the pea protein powder when I stopped being vegetarian and became vegan. I got it as I wasn't sure that I was getting enough protein. I used it instead of milk protein. The only thing is, there is a huge tub of it, so I have been thinking of ways to use it up. If it isn't raw, I may just put some in the wild birds food (carrot/apple pulp, porridge oats, sunflower seeds, wild bird seeds). What I am trying to do also, is to lose weight. I have a book called 'the vegetarian low carb diet' and she uses 8 ounces of ground almonds to 2 ounces of butter for pastry, which, she says, tastes like normal pastry. I used coconut oil instead of butter, but made a smaller quantity, but it was too crumbly. I think it was the pea protein powder that made the taste like digestive biscuits. She said that wheat was high carb. so I didn't use it. I think I will try the grain mix though.

[Revvell]

Sport, that is SO FUNNY! I was thinking the same thing...like, "Hey Revvell, ask them if they would like an interview!!" BUT, I was afraid I was being to forward......LOL.

Glad someone else mentioned it....GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE!!:D

Being forward? With me??? Gurl!!! That's the ONLY way I like people! Straight-forward, direct... *whispers* I knew what you were hinting at. :)

[tvillemom]

Wondering if there was any luck in our quest...(crossing my fingers....)

[riskie60]

try this site for your raw pastry it goes on to many different recipes and some are more suited to us home bodies than others
http://www.rawfoodchef.com/culinaryArts/rawfoodRecipes.html