Here’s a healthy paleo tart crust made from pecans, egg and coconut flour –gluten free, of course!
photo provided courtesy of elanaspantry.com
This quick and easy gluten free tart crust holds together very well and has a wonderfully nutty flavor.
The first few times I made this high protein, paleo tart crust, I had it with apple filling. I think it would be even better with the pumpkin pie filling recipe in The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook. Feel free to experiment and fill this tart crust with your favorite fall harvest fruits. A pear filling might work nicely with the pecan flavor in the crust, though I haven’t yet experimented with this.
Stay tuned, next week I will post the apple filling recipe for this crust so that you can make your very own apple tart.
ingredients
1½ cups pecans
1 egg
1 tablespoon coconut flour
⅛ teaspoon celtic sea salt
directions
- Place pecans in food processor and pulse until the texture of coarse gravel
- Pulse in egg, coconut flour and salt until mixture forms a ball
- Grease a 9-inch tart pan
- Using your hands, press crust onto bottom and up sides of tart pan
- Top off crust with your favorite filling
- Bake until filling is done (length of time dependent upon filling recipe)
- Serve
makes (1) 9″ tart crust
recipe courtesy elanaspantry.com
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Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.
A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.
She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.
In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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Hi! I LOVE this crust! and it’s so easy! One question – I see there’s coconut flour in the ingredients, but not the directions; and vanilla in the directions but not the ingredients..? Should it be coconut flour or vanilla or both in the recipe?
Good catch Mary! I must have mistyped. No vanilla. I have fixed the recipe. Thank you!!