Love this stuff. I got this recipe from an Oahu company that sells this flour. I eat this almost everyday it’s amazing. Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup peanut butter, & 1/4 cup honey until crumbly but sticky dough forms. Smash into small square pan then cut into squares after refrigerated for 30 min
If you drink coffee, you dont have to throw the seed parts away. cook them in a pan or oven until brown/black then use the cooked beans to make coffee. Works great in a percolator.
I have honey mesquite trees all over my property here in the high desert of Texas. My beans are quite purple. I break them up into about 1-2 inch pieces and roast them in the oven. While they roast it smells like cinnamon bread. Then I use a coffee grinder and it makes delicious caffeine free coffee.
Thanks for the video. I have a large mesquite in my yard that is dropping pods now (even in the middle of monsoon). Brilliant to let the pods "cook" in the car. Great way to use 2 natural resources!
Thank you for showing that I have hundreds of Mesquite trees on my property I'm going to have to make some flower. By the way cool shirt I would wear that every other day
Jelly is great..would not beleive....boil couple hands full for hr.mash um good strain juice about 1/2 gal....bring to boil with 5 cups sugar 1 box sure jell pectin and 1/2 cup lemon juice..jar it up like jelly...sooooo good..!!!
Cute girls. Thanks for this valuable post. I have planted 2 Mesquits in my backyard in addition to the really mature tree outside the fence. I get lots of pods fr that one that falls in my backyard.
Great video and information! I have several Mesquite trees around me here in Texas, so you know I’ll be harvesting some bean pods and making some flour! And coffee! Just one thing though… always use a food-grade bucket when storing food.
Am so amazed looking at the video I have never heard about the mesquite tree before I would definitely try to get some of this flour to use in my baking 🇹🇹
Thanks for the post in the fb gardening group. I had to check out and subscribe to your channel. I’m so glad you posted this video, wife and I were just discussing mesquite flour and how/where to get it or make it. Thank you much from your QC neighbor.
This was fantastic! I have 4 acres and lots and lots of mesquite trees. I thought I had to shell each pod like beans or something. This is super. My only question is this one. What would happen if you just used the mesquite flower alone? Thanks.
I've heard that it doesn't have the gluten of wheat flour so if you make bread or something with it you would need to add some white or wheat flour just to help it hold together
Good to know especially about the leading of bacon in the sun for a while also from what I hear do not pick the ones on the ground only the ones in the trees
Have you ever tried regrinding the coarse material that you sifted out? Seems like you could get a bit more out of it. 🤷🏼♂️ Great video. Nice family.👍✌️
Thank you for making this video available to us. I am a little confused about the harvesting process though. I have seen lots of videos now where the creator said NOT to use the pods anymore when they got hit by rain and NOT to use the ones already on the ground. But there are also videos here where the creators state that, if you bake the pods at 225 for 2 hours everything that might be in the pods as well as bacteria and fungi is dead. Do you know of a source where I (We) can confirm the information? Your method is without doubt the most secure one for us humans
160+ F according to USDA, also referenced in a food handler's class. After that, one must decide if they want to eat fungus, but most will eat mushrooms, cooked or raw.
I wouldn't use a plastic bucket, especially one that is not food grade. Off gassing of bad chemicals from a petroleum based product. Consider paper bags or cardboard boxes when you are heating the mesquite pods. :-)
Thanks for the tip. Paper bags dont stop pests (mainly bestles) from entering the bag. Although not labeled food grade the orange home buckets are made with the same mold and plastics as the white home depot food grade buckets but the dye disqualifies them from food grade.
I like the idea of drying them in the car but we have been having problems with mice and pack rats getting into our vehicles. So I'm afraid the mesquite pods might encourage them.
Hi there, I know it is 2 years since you posted this wonderful video and I'm hoping you might see this comment and answer several questions for me. 1. What model NutriBullet were you using to grind up the pods? 2. About how many pounds of pods were you able to pulverize before you had to replace the blades? 3. Did you end up burning out the NutriBullet motor at some point using it for making the mesquite powder? And lastly, 2 years later, are you still using a NutriBullet for this task or have you switched to a different device? Thank you very much if you see and get a chance to respond. I have 20 acres of land in Luna County, New Mexico filled with mesquite and think that doing this will make some wonderful Birthday and Christmas presents for all of my old lady friends who love to bake. And who will hopefully let me be their "Official Taste Tester"! 😁
I'll try to answer. It was a very basic NB nothing special. I used 5 full homedepot buckets worth about 12 lbs. I moved but never needed to replace the blades.
@@FruitTree Wow! For "the faster than a speeding (Nutri) Bullet" reply and all of the good news! I don't want to spend a fortune on making something homemade. Many Thanks, Karen Lee
When is a good time to harvest this year? Since it's been wet all winter and now we're getting these early monsoon looking storms, I'm wondering if we just don't have that window this year. 😢
Great video! I have a Chilean mesquite - making flour might be a decent payoff for the headaches it has caused. There is no problem using them vs the honey mesquite, correct?
I live in south Texas and we have a lot of mesquite trees. Ours have pods on them still. Is it too late to collect them? We don’t get a lot of rain! Lol how would I know if they are bad? I guess it’s not keto? Lol!
Has it rained down there yet this season??? Here in the very southern tip of Nevada, we haven't had any rain since December of last year. Vegas has, but we're about 70 miles south southeast, in the Mojave desert.
Thanks for this simple video. It was easy to follow and I can't wait to try it with my family! Do you think that I can use a vitamix, if I don't have a magic bullet, or will it pulverize everything too much?
@@FruitTree Thank you! But then it must me the fruit flesh part only, as it is a legume and the seeds then would contain lectins and other stuff for what legumes are considered less good for us or even poisonous. Would be interesting to know how it used to be prepared or eaten traditionally by natives. Love
Please keep it organic do not pick from plants by roads or places with lawns as they may be using weed killer and other stuff. Your best places would be to find a good tree in the desert that no one can get to except by walking.
Do you pick them directly off the tree or pick up the ones off the ground around the tree? My neighbor has a tree and my front yard is full of pods right now!
How brittle are dried mesquite pods? I attempted a similar process for grinding honey locust pods, but either honey locust pods are much tougher than mesquite pods or my food processor has a dull blade. It took me several minutes to get the honey locust pods ground down as much as you were able to grind down the mesquite pods in only ten seconds. Maybe I need a better food processor. Here is a link to a video of me attempting this process with honey locust pods: www.bitchute.com/video/ddxfpXyOycvR/
What if one had a greenhouse? I am looking for various vreative flour options for some interesting recipes for thr southwest.... I wana have a small mom and pop restaurant locally named after my grandma's kitchen "hahncienda" (with the surname)
