If you’ve bought a bag of almonds (or slivered almonds) and the rest are sitting in the cupboard (of you went a bit wild at the zero waste shop and bought too many), here are some simple plant-based recipes to help use them up, before they go rancid.
These almond flour cookies (ElaVegan) are easy to make in one bowl, you can even freeze the dough and bake them later, then stud with chocolate chips or other flavours. Almond flour is made simply by grinding blanched almonds to a flour, making a nice high-protein ingredients.
Keep almonds away from young children & pets. Read more on keeping people & pets safe in the kitchen.
is it unethical to eat almonds?
You may have heard that a few plant foods (including almonds) are unethical to consume. The reason behind this is that nearly all almonds grown worldwide are farmed in California (where they use a colossal amount of water in a state that is prone to drought). Also big corporate farms use pesticides that lead to monoculture orchards, so bees get sick (more bees die in the US, than animals and fish slaughtered for food).
The Bee Better Certified program gives consumers the choice to buy almonds that are grown/produced by companies that are inspected & certified (a bit like our Soil Association) to ensure pollinator-friendly practices. However, here we can buy almonds from Europe that don’t farm in the same harmful manner.
a simple vegan almond cake recipe
Vegan almond cake (Rainbow Nourishments) is very easy to make with a few simple ingredients, to produce a moist cake that’s topped with crunchy slivered almonds. Also try the recipe for almond cookies that use three types of almonds, and taste quite like almond croissants.
