As I am one to jump on every culinary bandwagon I immediately signed up for the Culinate Wholegrains Challenge after reading about it on Joanna’s blog.
In a nut shell the challenge is:
To spend the month of June practising eating more whole grains. To eat whole grains at every meal. To choose whole grains over refined, processed grains.
As I am starting the challenge mid June I will try to carry onto mid July, I am sure that I am not going to manage every meal as I eat a number of bean based salads and adding wholegrains to them would probably be overkill!
Looking through my cupboards I already have a number of wholegrains already which I use regularly.
Brown Rice
Quinoa
Bulgar Wheat
Spelt
Buckwheat (Kasha)
Wholegrain Bread flour
Bran
Oats
First on my list to cook is Sweet Potato and Kasha Burgers from Diet, Dessert & Dogs one of my favourite vegan food blogs.
I often add a handful of quinoa or bulgar when cooking rice, I always eat brown rice (Fuss Free Tip – cook in a steamer in the microwave as it is ready in 14 minutes) and I am getting into the habit of adding some brown flour or a handful of bran when baking.
Hopefully I am off to a good start!
Looking through my recipes I realise that my cooking is definately more bean than wholegrain based, but here are some wholegrains that I have already cooked;
Special Fried Bulgar Wheat
Coconut & Lime Oaty Biscuits
Crunchy Oat Sailing Biscuits
Sesame & Honey Oatmeal Bread
And all my muffins can be made with spelt flour or have some bran added.
The very attractive photo is of flowering quinoa taken from the Culinate website.
Hi Hippolyra,
What a great challenge! Best of luck with it (funny, I just finished a week WITHOUT grains–I think I eat too many grains!).
Thanks for the link to the burgers! Hope you like them. You might also like the series I did on quinoa a while back for more recipes. As for me, I’m definitely going to try those coconut and lime biscuits! :)