Food

Flaxseed crackers

The best way to get your fix of this healthful seed is as a sweet, salty and very crunchy snack

By Devorah Brous | April 21, 2022

4 Servings

30 minutes Total Time

Flaxseed crackers Photo by Devorah Brous

These crackers are sweet, salty and nutty — and really healthy. The ancient rabbis debated whether flax was pure or impure, but modern science has determined it is a boon to heart health and menopause relief. Read Devorah Brous’ story on flax here.

Ingredients

Flaxseed Crackers

1 cup raw flaxseed or organic, milled flax
1 cup sesame or gomasio
1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
1/2 cup crushed walnuts, pumpkin seeds, or almonds (optional)
1/2 cup chia seed
1 tbsp Tajin (optional)
1 tbsp grass-fed ghee or butter
1 tbsp Grade B maple syrup
2 cups brown sugar

Directions

Photo by Devorah Brous
In a saucepan, heat the brown sugar over a medium flame and melt it completely. Then add ingredients, saving the ghee and maple syrup for last. Mix until fully incorporated. Before it hardens, pour this blend onto parchment paper. Quickly press with a rolling pin and cut. Optional: sprinkle on Tajin! Cool, devour, and share.

Devorah Brous is an urban homesteader, lifecycle ritualist, and green consultant. For seven years, she served as the Founding Executive Director of Netiya (grow) ~ advancing food sovereignty and multi-faith stewardship by converting unused congregational lands into food gardens to feed houseless people and build intersectional bridges. Prior, Devorah organized on the frontline of Israel/Palestine for 15 years as Founding Executive Director of Bustan (fruit orchard). The award-winning environmental justice NGO pioneered the eco-building of an elementary school with indigenous Jahalin Bedouin, as well as the solar-powered straw-bale Medwed medical clinic with El Azazme Bedouin. As a Permaculture designer with two master’s degrees from Hebrew University and Gutenberg University in land use and conflict transformation, she completed her research in critical ecologies. She and her family live on a thriving urban homestead in LA with a heap of happy hens and a school of hardworking fish that power an aquaponic herb garden!

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