How To Make Gluten Free Waffles

Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. And if you're into eating healthy, one thing you may have picked up on recently is that eating grains might not be the best thing for you because it can mess up your digestive system and throw your blood sugar levels way out of whack. Today, we're going to show you how to make sure that grains don't do that to you, using a simple trick from the comfort of your own home. So here's Jessa.

Hi. I'm going to show you how to mill your own grains in a blender. The benefit of milling your own grains before eating them is you don't lose the nutrients. Flour. If you buy flour from the store, chances are actually 100% is you.

For example, if you mill your flour and 24 hours passes, 40% of the nutrients is lost in 24 hours, 80% is lost in three days. So the chance that the flour that you're buying at store has at least been there for six months. So that just goes to show how little nutrients exist in flour. So I'm going to show you how to get the most bang for your buck. I'm going to show you how to make. These are technically gluten free waffles, but the same thing goes for gluten free. Buckwheat is gluten free and so is quinoa. But if you can mill them the night before you actually use them, you're going to retain the nutrients in them. So what you're going to do is you're going to put in half a cup of buckwheat.

Where'd you get buckwheat?

I buy it in bulk at our natural food store. If you're in the Northwest region, you can get it through azure standards for a really good price. And it's gonna be organic from them, so.

Sure. Other places, like around the world though, you can find buckwheat, right?

Yeah, I would believe so. It's pretty common.

I've seen it everywhere. Okay, cool. What else?

Okay, and this is quinoa and it's in a different jar and it's got been rinsed. You'd wanna rinse your quinoa.

Q, U, I, N, O, A. Right? Quinoa.

Yes, quino.

You want to rinse it though, because it'll have a real bitter taste if you don't rinse it thoroughly. So you can buy it pre rinsed if you want. I've seen that, but mine wasn't. So I rinsed it. I just throw it in my mason jar, put the Lid on, shake it really hard and then, you know, strain it out. And I do that about three times until the water is pretty clear. It's not cloudy anymore. So there's a half a cup of rinsed quinoa. I'm going to throw that in the omni blender here.

It's okay if you don't get all of it, try to get most of it.

Okay, next I'm going to be using kefir.

We use raw milk, raw homemade kefir at home. But if you don't have that available, you can use like a thin. You can use yogurt. You can thin out yogurt with some.

Water like K E F I R. Yeah. We actually have a video inside the Ben Greenville Fitness center circle where we show people how to make it yourself.

It's very simple to make, but if you don't have access to that or you don't want to go through the effort of making it yourself, just use yogurt.

Why would you use kefir?

Kefir has a. Well, there's two reasons. Kefir has a great probiotic and it's pre digested. So if people have problems with milk.

Kefir is pre digested. So the lac, the lactose is not present in it. So people who are lactose intolerant deal with it better. Also.

It's also got some bitter or not bitterness, but sourness to it, which helps with removing the digestive inhibitors that are present in the grains. Does that make sense? Cool. Yeah. So. And the reason we do that, I mean anything that has life in it has a defense mechanism. And so.

For grains it's digestive inhibitors and it'll give you stomach problems if you don't take care of it properly.

Because grains want to be pooped out so their seeds get spread. Right? I mean, basically.

Yeah, basically to resist digestion. Yeah.

So they can mess you up.

So that's really mainly the whole reason even doing this right now is because overnight waffles means they soak overnight in this kind of acidic environment which removes. Which is created by the kefir, which removes the digestive inhibitors.

What did you just put in there?

I just put coconut oil. I'm sorry, Yeah. A tablespoon of coconut oil, which is my favorite coke, which is my favorite kind of oil for many reasons. And then you're gonna do a teaspoon of vanilla, or if you have vanilla bean, you can use that too.

Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna just flip on the Switch here. We'll start out with a low to start out.

But it's basically milling these grains for me.

You can use other grains too. You wheat, if you wanted to. You could use millet, you could use kamut, you could use all kinds of things. Whatever you're. I use rice. I've made rice waffles. But with this method. With this method. So really with whatever you want to do.

How long.

Until you don't hear a very loud kind of clicking noises? Then you know that the grains have been build up and it's smooth and stuff.

So.

Doesn'T take very long.

All right then. Well, we're getting, we're getting there. So then you're gonna let this sit on the counter overnight and there's a few more ingredients that you're going to put in in the morning, which I can list now or we could shoot tomorrow morning.

Why don't you tell us right now?

Okay, so I like in the morning, I like to do two eggs in here. And you're going to throw them in here and you're going to blend them pretty good because the more you whip eggs, the more kind of a rising agent they have. So the eggs are important. So you're going to whip the eggs and then optional, you can put flax seeds in there as well if you want some extra good oils in there. You're gonna do a quarter a teaspoon baking soda.

A half a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of baking powder.

And for the people who are our inner circle members, we'll publish all that inside our inner circle.

And that's what you're gonna throw in the blender tomorrow morning. Flip on the switch, blend it all up and then put it on the griddle.

Cool. And make yourself some waffles.

So you have good soaked whole grains that have been milled the night before. So they are at the prime nutritional value.

Awesome.