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Fluffed Cracked Kamut

Cracked Kamut Recipe

Basic recipe for cooking cracked Kamut or durum wheat
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cups Kamut wheat berries
  • pinch salt
  • 2 cups water

Instructions
 

Coarsely grind and sift Kamut wheat berries

  • Using either a high speed blender ( pulsing 2 or 3 times ) or a mill, coarsely grind 1 1/2 cups of Kamut wheat berries. You will get uneven pieces with some half the size or more of the wheat berries.
    Cracked Kamut Closeup
  • Use strainer to sift out coarser wheat from finer wheat, 1/3 cup at a time.
    Cracked Kamut Sifting
  • You should be left with at least 1 cup of coarsely ground Kamut wheat berries.
    Coarse Sifted Cracked Kamut
  • Reserve finer Kamut wheat ( semolina ) for other uses such as thickening a sauce or in a breakfast porridge. (Freeze if not using within a few weeks.)
    Finely Ground Kamut

Get boiling water ready

  • Start microwaving 2 cups of water to boiling point ( about 4 minutes ).
    Boiling Water

Roast cracked Kamut

  • In parallel with previous step, place one cup of cracked Kamut in frying pan and dry roast on medium high heat until fragrant ( 5 minutes or less ).
    Toasting Cracked Kamut

Cook

  • Add boiled water and pinch of salt to pan with roasted Kamut.
    Boiling Cracked Kamut
  • Cover pan, turn heat down to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
    Simmering Cracked Kamut
  • Remove pan from heat, keep covered 10 minutes.
  • Remove lid and fluff cracked Kamut with a fork.
    Fluffed Cracked Kamut
  • Your cooked Kamut is now ready to enjoy in any number of recipes as a side dish, for tabbouleh or as a rice replacement.
Keyword durum, kamut
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