What can I do with leftover juicer pulp?

[Juicerguy]

Hello,

I am sure this question has come up a lot here and I am also sure there is some other thread for it. Feel free to link to that here if you want to. :) . I started to google this, but then decided I wanted to come here to ask all of you what kinds of recipes you have for leftover juicing pulp? I am also curious about leftover almond pulp as well? I figure I am not the only one who would like to know this. So I thought a thread about this would be good for me as well as others. Thanks raw people in advance for your answers!

[MysticTree]

Banana search for raw crackers.

[PansyLo]

I'm also curious about this. :)

It seems like such a waste to chuck it all out. I don't have a dehydrator though, and I don't think our oven is up to acting as one as it's a very retro old gas oven and is unreliable at the best of time when using it for it's proper purpose. I don't think there would be a way to manage the temp to use it as a dehydrator.

[green goddess]

I sometimes use my pulp as a base for soup - add enough water to the pulp to make it a good soup consistency, then add flavourful ingredients such as avocado, tomato, and seasoning to taste (I like using raw miso paste because the flavour is so strong) and mix it all together. The pulp is so bland that it does need lots of flavour added, or it'll taste like ... well, like cardboard-y vegetable paste!

I haven't yet gone all out and made crackers made with the pulp (teehee, I'd just mistyped 'plop'!) - partly because I'm too lazy and partly because I'm just not a big cracker fan. I prefer making soup. But lately I've just been adding the pulp to the compost pile - a bit of a waste, in a way, maybe, but hey, it's great for the developing soil!

Oh, and for almond pulp, I've dehydrated it and then ground it up into flour, which I keep in a jar in the freezer. When there's enough flour, I make crackers or cookies with it. I haven't done this in a while, as I haven't been making any almond milk (I prefer cashew milk, too!)

Hope this helps!

Oh, and MysticTree, I love the term 'banana search'! [I'd add a smiley-face smiley here, but it's kinda creepy!]

[MysticTree]

that smilie is just evil looking. Best avoided lol. I avoid it by disabling smilies in "go advanced" when replying.

[PansyLo]

Is the pulp all that nutritionally useful? Do we not juice fruit and veg to get the best stuff out of it?

Isn't it just fibre basically?

[MysticTree]

Yes it is fibre with little or no nutrition but it plays an important role in having a healthy gut nonetheless and many people hate to see it going to waste. When I juice, I give the pulp to my hens so I don't see it as waste.

[yoginat]

I hate to throw it out so I have been making crackers with vegie pulp. No set recipe, just add ground flax seed, herbs (I'm loving caraway seeds at the moment) and enough water to make a paste then dehydrate - yummmm.
Also with almond pulp - the best thing to make is Russell James garlic bread - so very good!!!

[Raw Angel Mom]

You can make burger with them. Add an oil, salt, seasoning and something spicy such onion or garlic or hot pepper.

I use hemp seed for the fat and Himalayan salt. What you don't finish, you can dehydrate them and they turn like a bread.

All the best!

[RawDad]

Cookies! Mix juice pulp, dates, and coconut. Add whatever you like, I like cacao and bananas. Make the size/shape cookies you want on dehydrator trays and dehydrate until you like them best.

[delmar]

I'm also curious about this. :)

It seems like such a waste to chuck it all out. I don't have a dehydrator though, and I don't think our oven is up to acting as one as it's a very retro old gas oven and is unreliable at the best of time when using it for it's proper purpose. I don't think there would be a way to manage the temp to use it as a dehydrator.If you think you would use a dehydrator there is very little reason not to pick one up. I see them all the time at thrift stores and yard sales for less than $10. I posted on a thread a while back about how to put a thermostat in a cheap one to assure the temp is where you want it.
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?68371-Cheap-dehydrator-OK

[delmar]

Hello,

I am sure this question has come up a lot here and I am also sure there is some other thread for it. Feel free to link to that here if you want to. :) . I started to google this, but then decided I wanted to come here to ask all of you what kinds of recipes you have for leftover juicing pulp? I am also curious about leftover almond pulp as well? I figure I am not the only one who would like to know this. So I thought a thread about this would be good for me as well as others. Thanks raw people in advance for your answers!My opinion is that no matter what you do with the pulp, as long as you don't put it the land fill, it won't go to waste! Worms, critters and plants all have to eat too!