Pine nuts are ground into flour. Mixed with water, this flour makes a nutritious soup. The pine nut meal is used throughout the year as a flavorful thickener in soups and stews, baked with roots and grains into bread or eaten as gruel with sweeteners like birch or maple, or even mesquite bean syrup.
Of course, roasted pine nuts can simply be snacked by the handfuls.
Dried pine nuts are 13% carbohydrates, 14% complete protein, 68% fat (mostly beneficial monosaturated), providing an almost perfect food in itself!
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