Milling your crickets
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Coarsely ground crickets in home food processor
Milling your Natural crickets is a great way to incorporate more protein into your food and/or to disguise the look of a cricket for those eaters who don't want to see a whole cricket in their food.
In a home food processor (i.e. Magic Bullet), you can grind our crickets into a powder in a matter of seconds. If you want your crickets to add texture to your baking, only mill a few seconds to get a coarsely ground cricket. If you don't want or need the texture, mill longer to get a finer powder.
Makes 4-5 burgers
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of ground Natural Craft Crickets (requires about 1 1/2 cups of whole crickets)
- Grind 2 ounces in your coffee grinder or food processor
- For a bolder flavor, use Garlic Paprika Craft Crickets
- Grind 2 ounces in your coffee grinder or food processor
- 1 cup of ground sunflower seeds
- 2 cups of chopped vegetables. Our favorite combination:
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup red pepper, chopped
- 1/2 cup celery, chopped
- 1/2 cup carrots, shredded
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- Season as desired. Our favorite combination:
- 1/2 tsp of sea salt
- 1 tsp of paprika
- 1 tsp of cumin
- crushed garlic clove
- dash of pepper
- 1/2 tsp of sea salt
- Binding agent
- We prefer using 1 egg (beaten)
- Can be replaced with other binding agent such as coconut milk.
- We prefer using 1 egg (beaten)
Instructions:
- Chop vegetables
- Mix all dry ingredients, including seasoning, in a medium bowl.
- Add binding agent
- Once thoroughly mix, use hands to form into patties.
- If burgers aren't holding together, add more moisture (i.e. another egg or some milk)
- Place on frying pan on medium heat. Cook until brown on each side (4-5 min/side).
- Serve with favorite toppings.
Below are some of our favorite dinner recipes featuring our crickets. If you have a great recipe, please share it with us!
Depending how finely you grind your crickets, the volume will reduce by roughly half from the whole state. In other words, to make a cup of cricket flour, you need two cups of crickets.