Spent Grain Crackers and Wraps

This is the third post I've done about using spent grains for food. See the first post for a ramble about the health benefits of these. Anything you eat with these has a very noticable fibre hit (you'll notice the next day...). These have slightly less grain and more flour than what I've made before, which makes them quite a bit nicer. They're also high in protien. I made these crackers and a wrap, and they were all delicious. 

Disclaimer - This is all loosely based on this recipe from Pear Tree Kitchen.

Ingredients

• 1 cup white flour
• 1.5 cups whole wheat flour
• 0.5 cup spent grains, drip dried but still a bit moist
• Most of a can of beer (Moa IPA for me)
• A good bit of salt
• A slug of Vegemite

Add everything except the beer and knead (the wet grains and vegemite give enough moisture to start a kind of crumble) or use a food processor with a dough hook

Slowly add the beer while mixing until it reaches a crumble texture, and then a tiny bit more to get a dry dough. Knead it into a ball and leave it for 30-60 mins (to let the gluten develop - gluten is gooby and will hold everything together, as well as taste good, and inflame the guts of people with Coeliac disease).

I guess you should probably use a filtered beer otherwise the dough will probably rise and you'll end up with more of a bread than a cracker. I 'unno.

Next cut the ball into four and roll these into four smaller balls

Squish each ball flat.

Then use a rolling pin (or a bottle of wine) to squish the balls very flat. Do a bit then move to the next ball and keep rotating to let each one  rest a few times during the process. Keep going until you have four big flat things about 2mm thick.

Now comes the decision:

- make it a circle and fry it to make a wrap; or

- put it on some baking paper on a baking try and bake it to make crackers.

I did the crackers as one big cracker per baking tray and then snapped them into bits afterwards for an uneven homemade look. This had the disadvantage of being a bit unevenly cooked; more cooked around the edges than the middle. Otherwise I guess you could cut them before cooking with a pizza cutter or a knife. I cooked at about 180 for about 15 mins but checking constantly. Once they went hard (around 10 mins) I flipped them to brown both sides.

To make the wrap I just put the big circle in a frypan without any oil on a medium-high heat. Let it cook until a few brown spots appeared on the underside (maybe 3-4 mins) then flipped for the same on the other side. Cook it enough to be cooked but not so much that it goes hard.

Enjoy!