Showing posts with label Chia Bia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chia Bia. Show all posts
Chifu: 'tofu' made from Chia Seeds
Along with our sister site plantfoods.org we're reviewing chia seeds...Chia Bia seeds even. We've so far made chia gel, chia milk and chia tofu, but chia yoghurt was a no go...it just wouldn't culture.
The 'chifu' we made is very unusual...more gluten-like than tofu-like...but if anything we thought it was most like silly putty. We can't think of what to do with it as yet, but we suspect it might be useful in gluten-free baking as it's very elastic.
If you want to make it yourself, the instructions will soon be up on plantfoods.org, but in short you do this:
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