Cooking with wheat berries

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VanillaAndBean.com shares a wheat berry salad recipe

Everydaydishes.com shows you how to soak wheat berries, above.

How to Eat Wheat Berries
You can live on wheat! In addition to grinding wheat into flour
and sprouting wheat berries, enjoy cooked wheat berries in a
variety of ways:

Breakfast: For breakfast think of boiled wheat berries as
an alternative to oats. For breakfast, wheat berries are
best served immediately after boiling, but certainly you can
cook ahead and reheat. You can combine them with oat
groats, too. Try boiled wheat berries with brown sugar or
with dried fruit and nuts. For example, dried cranberries
and sunflower seeds.

Lunch: You can use sprouted wheat berries for salads and
sandwiches.

Dinner: Wheat berries are great for bread making, but they
are a versatile grain you can serve for dinner. Move over
quinoa, here come the wheat berries!

Salad ingredient: As a salad, sprinkle boiled wheat berries
to boost nutrition and give texture. Cooked wheat berries
have a chewy texture and give a nutty flavor to your
summer salads... A wheat berry salad is limited only by
your creativity. Instead of boiling with water in the recipe
above, boil with broth. As a nice accompaniment to this
savory version of wheat berries, try adding diced onions
and carrots and serving atop a red leaf lettuce as an
interesting side dish. Another salad idea is to combine
white wheat berries with white beans for a white berry and
white bean salad. Another serving suggestion for your
salad is to add olive oil just after draining, or fresh
squeezed lemon for added zest to your dish. The wheat
berries will soak up these flavors after you drain them of
this water content.

Side dishes. Think of sprouted wheat as a substitute for
quinoa or rice. Try a delicious mushroom w heat b erry p ilaf
or lemony wheat berries with roasted brussel sprouts.

Soups. Make hearty winter soups using wheat berries with
lentils or navy beans. You'll feel even better serving a
sprouted wheat berry salad on the side and a crusty piece
of home made bread.

Stews. Add wheat berries to your chili as a meat extender
or make a vegetarian chili using them.

Should you use hard red wheat or hard white wheat?
When using wheat berries in salads and other recipes, you can
interchange hard red or hard white berries easily based on
personal preference.

For boiling wheat berries, many prefer hard red wheat, which
has a high protein content. Hard white wheat is more often
used in breads and gaining popularity because of its naturally
mild taste in comparison.

Except for color, hard white wheat and hard red wheat are
identical. According the North Dakota State University, “The
white bran color does not alter the starch characteristics or
protein functionality of the kernel.”

White wheat is a tan in comparison to the more traditional hard
red wheat. It’s also less expensive. A huge bucket of Augason
Farms Hard White Wheat berries (40-lbs) at the time of posting
was $29.99 with free shipping for Prime members. That’s a
bargain and preppers should take note. That’s just .75 cents a
pound.

Give hard wheat berries a go in your food storage.
Not only is hard wheat versatile and inexpensive, it’s nutritious.
Wheat berries include all the nutritious bran, germ and
endosperm. Hard white or red whole wheat is a good source of
protein, iron and fiber. The fiber will make you feel fuller and
more satisfied to keep with your weight goals. Also, the more
fiber in your diet the less constipated you’ll feel. Loaded with
phosphorus and magnesium, adding this nutritious grain can
improve your overall health. Diets rich in whole grains may
reduce risk of heart disease and cancer!

Is farro the same as wheat berries?
"Farro falls somewhere between wheat berries and barley,"
according to cleananddelicious.com. Like wheat berries, you can
use farro in place of brown rice or quinoa!

Farro is known as the "Pharoahs wheat." It's a hulled wheat
that's high in protein, fiber and iron! There's even magnesium in
farro. If you're watching gluten in your food, then you should
consider adding the ancient grain farro to your diet. Farro is
easy to digest, allowing your body to readily absorb the
nutrients.

While there is some gluten in farro, there's significantly less
than in wheat and you can "pre-digest" it by sprouting and
fermenting it. Like wheat berries, with farro you can make
hearty and nutritious salads, soups and side dishes.

Above, VanillaAndBean.com shares a hearty wheat berry salad recipe:
Garbanzo Summer Salad with Creamy Dill Dressing.

How to cook wheat berries...
Did you know you don't have to soak wheat berries overnight
before cooking them? Here's how to boil wheat berries so you
can use them in your summer salads and other recipes.

Recipe for how to boil wheat berries:
2 cups wheat berries
7 cups water
1 teaspoon salt.
Rinse the berries, then bring to a boil over high heat, reduce
heat and simmer gently for an hour and 15 minutes. Stir
occasionally, drain and rinse, then serve.

Slow cooker wheat berries:
You can also use a slow cooker for wheat berries! Set your slow
cooker for 4 hours on high, or 8 hours on a low setting.

And wheat berries can be ready in an hour and half with this
basic cooked wheat berries recipe by food.com.

How to soak wheat berries:
Soaking wheat berries is the oldest method of making them
palatable for your cooking. It's really very easy:

Above, cleananddelicous.com shares a love of the ancient grain, farro. Try a
farro salad with sardines and kale.

Add wheat berries to your stockpile now!
Cooking with wheat berries in the prepper's kitchen can widen
your pantry options. If packaged properly, wheat berries can last
25 years in the pantry. Not only are the inexpensive, they are a
very healthy option, too. Since the wheat kernel is intact, it
means that it retains all the nutrients.

And another thing... Chickens love sprouted wheat berries.
Fodder for thought is that you can use sprouted wheat berries to
feed 17 chickens for less than 25 cents day, according to
backyardchickenlady.blogspot.com

Happy endings…
Many preppers stockpile wheat and those diligent enough to save
money will buy wheat berries in bulk to grind for baking breads
and making pizzas. Now you know that those same wheat berries
are great for other meals too!

Because of its low moisture content, hard wheat will store
extremely well -- Augason Farms will store upwards of 30 years.
You can’t live on rice and beans alone. Give hard wheat a go in
your food storage! Red or white it’s dynamite!

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Cooking with Wheat Berries
What to do with all that wheat you've been stockpiling

How to cook wheat berries from the prepper's pantry...
You know that bucket of wheat berries in your prepper's pantry
reserved for making flour for your pizza and breads? Well, those
wheat berries are great for other meals, too, like soups, stews,
salads, stews and side dishes!

Wheat berries are versatile, nutritious and among the longest
lasting of shelf-stable foods for the prepper's pantry. It's time
you looked into wheat berries beyond bread!

Here's how to cook with wheat berries...

Cooking with Wheat Berries.
There are several ways to cook with wheat berries and three basic
options for using them:

#1: Sprouting wheat berries.
Yes, you can sprout wheat berries! Once you've sprouted wheat
berries, it means you can use them in salads, sandwiches and
side dishes. Some preppers sprout wheat berries into wheat grass
and use them for smoothies! Now that's a smooth operation in an
emergency, but possible if you have a hand cranked blender.

Certainly sprouting wheat berries is an overlooked way to use
them, and sprouting wheat berries really isn’t all that difficult.
It's a wonder why more preppers don't sprout them. You don’t
need any fancy equipment, though sprouting trays are convenient
and certainly make the job easier.

They don't take much space and there's no need for a homestead
to grow them. You can sprout wheat berries from any kitchen.
Their are other rewards of stockpiling sprouted wheat berries.
They are tasty and highly nutritious. Wheat berries are loaded
with Vitamin E and magnesium. They are better for you than milk
in terms of what's good for healthy bones and muscle tissue,
which is particularly important if you live a vegan lifestyle. Store
wheat berries and sprout them for a long-term emergency to add
to your freeze dried food storage.

Above is a recipe for sprouted wheat berry salad published by viewer-
supported KCET public broadcasting. (Photo by Emily Han.)

Sprouted wheat berries are raw and help prove that you really
can be a prepper in the raw vegan lifestyle.

#2: Grinding wheat berries.
The most popular use of wheat berries is in grinding it into
flour. Most preppers own a grain mill or two (one electric and
one hand grinder). You can make flour without a grain mill.

How to make flour without a grain mill.

You already know that hard wheat is whole grain goodness and
nutrition. When ground, this light-colored flour still retains its
nutritional composition, which makes for satisfying bread
making. You can transform this flour also into dough for pizza
and tortillas or for making pie crusts or specialty noodles.

For using hard wheat as flour, you’ll need a grain mill. Grain
mills are handy not only for the primary purpose of grinding hard
red or white wheat berries, but for grinding dent corn into
cornmeal, and other grains as well. Use a grain mill for grinding
coffee, cheese, vegetables, nuts, coconut, and spice! A grain
mill is an expense worth considering, but you don’t need a grain
mill to enjoy wheat berries!

#3: Boiling wheat berries.
While you can grind wheat berries to eat them, the most under
appreciated use of wheat berries is as a boiled grain. Wheat
berries add a nutty flavor and nutrition to a variety of dishes
from breakfast cereals to soups, stews, chili, salads and
casseroles.

Best of all, cooked wheat berries don’t need to be soaked
overnight either. You can boil white wheat berries for about an
hour to soften the kernels and what results is a delightful
chewy texture. It’s not a quick process, but it’s healthy,
satisfying and extremely cheap food well worth the effort. It’s a
food for the poverty stricken or the health driven and
economically minded prepper!