Acorn Recipes

Acorn is a very versatile and easy-to-use healthy and nutritious food, that can often be locally sourced for free! The taste is a mild nutty flavor, and the nuts will also take on flavors when cooking. Acorn Meal or Acorn Flour can be added to your favorite recipes, to enhance nutrition, and add interesting textures and flavors to your meals.

Acorns have an impressive number of health benefits, including their ability to protect the heart, boost energy, improve digestion, and regulate blood sugar levels. These nuts also help in building strong bones, growth and repair, soothing inflammation, eliminating diarrhea, and skincare.

These “Oak Nuts” are highly nutritious, containing carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. The vitamin wealth in these nuts contains vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), vitamin B6, and vitamin B9 (folate). Minerals like calcium, copper, magnesium, manganese, iron, potassium, and zinc are also found in this amazing SUPERFOOD!

There are many acorn recipes available in books and online, but most of them simply add a little bit of acorn flour to otherwise normal everyday recipes. We like to push it further, and share, invent, or discover creative recipes that use acorns as the primary featured ingredient, instead of just an added ingredient.

Fortunately, acorns are easy to cook with and easy to experiment with, by adding them to various meals and cooking with them in so many different ways, such as baking, boiling, and frying.

We encourage you to experiment with the infinite ways to cook and eat acorns, as they are an important nutritional source and have thousands of culinary applications. Here are some of the favorite ways we at the Acorn Love Project enjoy eating acorns:

1. Use the acorn crumbles as Breading on Fried Foods (could be for veggies or poultry, or tofu, tempeh, etc.)
2. Acorn Veggie Burgers
3. Acorn Omelettes
4. Acorn crumbles Sprinkled on Baked Dishes
5. Acorn thickener added to Soups or Stews
6. Acorn Pancakes, Waffles, or Flat Bread
7. Acorn Gravy

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Acorn Veggie Burger Recipe:

A “Veggie Burger” can be any kind of patty, made from vegetarian ingredients. It could be a Vegan Burger, or Gluten-Free, etc. etc. So, the best recipes for veggie burgers can be from a huge variety of ingredient choices and ways of preparing the burgers- Really, the sky is the limit with veggie burgers! You can choose your own favorite ingredients to add!

Here is one that we love:
Acorn Organic Veggie Burger
1. -Fry up (or steam) some of your favorite fresh ingredients to add to burger mix, such as: finely chopped kale, onions, garlic, broccoli, asparagus, and/or gourmet mushrooms sautéd in coconut oil or olive oil, with herbs and pepper…
2. -Rehydrate acorn flour using veggie broth
3. -Add your special ingredients/stir fry, and/or cooked beans, rice, peppers, spices, and/or anything else desired, before mixing it all together to make your unique and delicious burger batch.
4. Add an egg or two, if desired. This will help stabilize the burger patty, to prevent crubling (and adds nutrition including protien). *You can experiment with other stabilizing ingredients (such as refried beans) that could help prevent the burgers from crumbling.
5. -Fry the burger patties on medium heat turning frequently, until both sides are golden brown and burger is cooked through, but not dried out.
6. -Add cheese melted on top (dairy or alternative “cheese”), if cheeseburger is desired.
7. -Serve with buns or bread and PLENTY of fixin’s, condiments, garnishes, pickles, and chips (or fries, if available!).

OTHER INGREDIENTS: I have had good luck with adding eggs, tamari, mayonnaise, and/or mustard into the burger mix before forming patties and cooking.
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Acorn Omelettes:

Ingredients (all are optional and you can adapt your omelettes to whatever additives you have available):
-Two large Duck eggs (if desired)
-Two large Chicken Eggs
-1-2 cups of acorn flour (experiment with more or less)
-Monterey Jack Cheese (or Cheddar or Swiss or??)
-Veggies, greens, onions, leeks, garlic, mushsooms, (and/or whatever you’d like in your omelette)
-Coconut or Olive Oil
-Herbs and spices
-Small splash of Apple Cider Vinegar
-Half cup of Whole Milk (or Half & Half, or Cream)
*(Non-dairy substitute: Veggie Broth or water)
-Butter

Directions:
1. Place some fine acorn flour in a mixing bowl and pour the milk or cream on it to rehydrate it.
2. Crack the four eggs on top of the rehydrating mixture.
3. Sauté your veggies, mushrooms, etc. (add herbs if desired) in coconut or olive oil.
4. Add desired herbs and spices on top of the eggs.
5. Scramble and beat the eggs, liquid, vinegar, herbs & spices with a whisk.
6. Add the cheese (grated or small pieces) and the cooked veggies/mushrooms into the mix.
7. Fry in butter as an omelette, folding over & lightly browning each side, while sprinkling additional acorn flour on the sides as it is cooking.
*Do not overcook and dry out the eggs too much. The acorn will make it brown faster than eggs without acorn flour, so watch it all closely as it cooks. ENJOY!

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We recently found this web page from “PRACTICAL SELF RELIANCE“, but we have not explored or tried any of the recipes on the site… Might be worth a try (click on link, below).
EATING ACORNS: 60+ ACORN RECIPES FROM AROUND THE WORLD:
https://practicalselfreliance.com/acorn-recipes/