Chicory salad with peach, buckwheat, hazelnuts and honey
Nutritious meal salad with chicory, whole buckwheat grains, peaches and hazelnuts. The basis is whole buckwheat grains in a dressing of almond paste, honey and extra virgin oil.
Is buckwheat glutenfree?
Buckwheat is often considered a grain, but it is actually a pseudograin. As all pseugrains, buckwheat is glutenfree and contains lots of healthy proteins. In this recipe you use tho whole grain, not the flakes that look like oatmeal.
Buckwheat and Medical Medium
Gluten free (pseudo)grains are filler foods that won’t do much harm but aren’t healing either.
But, in the first MM book, buckwheat is NOT on the list of filler foods. And in an insta live (7/2/20 round 3 Q&A), when asked whether he recommends buckwheat, Anthony William says: “No…there’s a type of gluten in buckwheat…” Probably meaning it has similar effect on your healing process. But then in 2022 the Brain Saver book came out. And this book DID list buckwheat as one of the filler foods (Source: Brainsaver book, chapter 41).
So it’s a bit confusing. As soon as I have more info, I’ll publish it here. In the meantime… I like buckwheat a lot and I have decided to keep using it but alternate more though, with millet, quinoa, teff and amarant. And I have taken my grain consumption down compared to before I started following the MM protocol.
Chicory
Chicory is called ‘witlof’ in Dutch, also sometime referred to in English as ‘endives’. In Holland we eat lot of chicory, both cooked and raw like a salad. Chicory grows in the dark and has white/yellow or pinkish purple leaves. If needed, you can cut out the thick part where the leaves grow from. This can be a bit bitter although more modern variaties aren’t as bitter as before. Preparing chicory is easy. Just slice the leaves up when they are still attached to eachother. They are crunchy and tasteful.
Honey
Be sure to use raw honey that has no added sugar. Honey contains healthy enzymes from the bees. Those enzymes will be destroyed if honey is heated over 100F (40C). Preferable from a local beekeeper.
Ingredients
- Buckwheat – not flour or flakes but whole grains.
- Belgian endives – or chicory, the white leafy greens with yellow or pinkish edges.
- Peaches – with skin, so preferably bio.
- Hazelnuts
- Raw honey – or mapley syrup for vegan.
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Almond butter
FAQ’s
Yes, the salad is vegan, but replace the honey with maple syrup (or possibly in combination with apple butter).
Yes, but with some reservations. The dressing contains fat (almond paste) and oil (olive oil). And buckwheat is a bit complicated.
It is a filler food, slightly less popular than gluten-free oats and millet (source: Brainsaver book, chapter 41). See also text above.
No. Grains and pseudograins alike are not paleo so they are not AIP either. Nuts are not AIP as well.
Chicory salad with peach, buckwheat, hazelnuts and honey
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- cooking pot
- sieve
- mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 1 cup buckwheat whole grains
- 2 cups Belgian endives / chicory cut into slices
- 2 peaches
- 2 handsful hazelnuts
- 2 tbsp raw honey
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp almond butter
For vegan
- 2 tbsp maple syrup NO honey
Instructions
- Boil plenty of water in the pan. Add the buckwheat and cook for 8 minutes.
- Cut the peaches into nice slices on either side of the pit. These go on top. Cut the rest around the pit into small pieces.
- Wash and cut the chicory into strips.
- After cooking, rinse the buckwheat immediately with cold water and let it drain.
- Mix 1 tablespoon of honey, the oil and the almond paste with the buckwheat. Mix the chicory and small peach pieces with the buckwheat.
- Divide the buckwheat among the plates. Place the peach slices on top. Sprinkle the hazelnuts over the peaches. Garnish with the remaining honey.
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