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Cooking with Flax Farm Cold-Pressed Linseed (Flax Seed) Oil

• Flax Farm Linseed (Flaxseed) oil is exceptionally mild and creamy, it is delcious in many everyday and traditional recipes.
• To preserve Linseed oil's most important properties it should not be cooked at high temperatures, so add at the end of cooking or use in foods that have plenty of liquid in them.
• Delicious drizzled over steamed vegetables.  Use as a healthy alternative instead of butter or cream to mash potatoes or with baked potatoes. Lovely on pasta.
• The healthy choice in baking; gives bread a wonderful old-fshioned flavour..
• Brilliant used to make salad dressings: really brings out the flavour of salad vegetables.
• Use to enrich other foods like soups and sauces in a healthy way.
• Click here to see our tips for the Budwig Protocol 

Cold-Pressed Linseed Oil Recipes

Here you'll find a selection of some our best-loved recipes.

Mashed Banana with Flax Farm Linseed Oil

This my how I first used our linseed oil when I realised it was improving my skin. I still enjoy it for breakfast or dessert and it's a delicious sugar-free breakfast or snack and a brilliant way to get it into the diet for toddlers and young children.

Method:
Mash a banana with a fork and incorporate up to 1-2tsp of Flax Farm Linseed Oil. Eat immediately.

Omega-3 Silky Smoothie This smoothie, laced with healthy omega-3 from linseed oil, satisfies a sweet tooth and the fussiest palates but with no added sugar! The oil makes the smoothie rich and creamy; the silkiest, richest smoothie you've ever tasted.

Ingredients:
1-2 bananas
1 cup orange juice or freshly squeezed whole oranges
1-3 tsp (or more to taste) Flax Farm linseed oil

3-6 tsp (or more to taste)  quark, cottage cheese or yoghurt
Method:
Whiz all the ingredients in a blender, chill and serve. Try adding a cup of raspberries, strawberries, kiwi, peach or nectarine, or combinations of seasonal fruit, for an extra vitamin C boost.

Easy Omega-3 Tomato Sauce.  Another easy way to get the benefits of linseed's omega-3 into the whole family's meals.

Ingredients:
1 clove garlic
2tsp olive oil
Tin chopped and strained tomatoes
Pinch of dried Italian-style herbs
Pinch salt (optional)
Pinch sugar (optional)
Pepper to taste
1-2 tbsp Flax Farm cold-pressed linseed oil
Method:
Simmer all the ingredients except the Linseed oil together until soft and well reduced. Take off the heat, allow to cool slightly and stir in Linseed oil and serve over pasta, potatoes, chicken or fish. For variety add sliced roasted peppers, olives or a finely chopped chili pepper. Keep in the fridge for up to 4 days.

Cold-pressed Linseed Oil and Quark Mustard Sauce
• 2 tablespoons Flax Farm Cold-Pressed Linseed Oil
• 4 tablespoons Quark/cottage cheese/yoghurt

. Mix the oil and quark as usual, add a good tablespoon of your best seedy wholegrain mustard, stir and use to top hot or cold vegetables . Great with potatoes, broccoli, squash and celery.

Linseed Vinaigrette.  Flax Farm Cold-pressed Linseed (flaxseed) oil is the best oil I have come across for using with apple cider vinegar, which is healthier than other vinegars. 

Ingredients:
2tbsp Flax Farm cold-pressed linseed (flaxseed) oil (or 50/50 mix of olive oil and linseed oil)
1tbsp lemon juice, apple cider or wine vinegar
Salt and pepper
Pinch dried tarragon
Crushed garlic to taste
Method:
Mix the oil(s) and lemon juice or wine vinegar together thoroughly until emulsified. Stir in seasoning, herbs and garlic.

Quickest Omega-3 Vinaigrette

Ingredients:
2tbsp Flax Farm linseed oil
1-2tbsp balsamic vinegar
Method:
Mix the oil and vinegar together - or for ultra-quick salad dressing just drizzle the oil and balsamic separately over salad. Add salt and black pepper to taste.

Quick Easy Dhal

Serves 3-4. Ingredients:
1-2 chopped onions
2-4 crushed cloves garlic
1 chopped green or red pepper
½tsp turmeric
1tsp garam masala
½tsp chilli powder
½tsp crushed black pepper
1 cup dried red lentils
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1 thinly sliced onion
Ghee or olive oil
½tsp cumin seeds
½tsp mustard seed
1 chopped red chilli
1-2tsp Flax Farm linseed oil per person
Fresh green coriander to garnish
Method:
Place chopped onions, garlic, green or red pepper, turmeric, garam masala, chilli powder, pepper, lentils and tomatoes into a saucepan. Cover with enough water to prevent sticking and boil until lentils are soft. Brown in a frying pan the sliced onion in a little ghee or oil. Add cumin, mustard and red chilli. Fry until the seeds start to pop. Take off the heat and stir in 1-2tsp of Linseed oil per person and immediately stir into the lentil mix. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Saxony-Style Baked Potatoes with Linseed Oil

Quick, easy, cholesterol-free, rich in omega-3. This might sound un-exciting but is wonderful and I quite understand why the Germans are so fond of it. It is now my favourite quick winter supper. Serves 2

2 large baking potatoes, 250g (8oz) quark or low-fat cottage cheese, small amount (less is more in this delicately flavoured dish) chopped chives, parsley, chervil, dill or combination, salt and freshly milled black pepper, ¼ teaspoon ground caraway (optional) 2 tablespoons Flax Farm Cold-pressed Linseed (Flaxseed) oil, plus more to taste, 2 to 3 tablespoons milk (optional), 2 heaped dessertspoons Flax Farm ground bronze linseed meal (optional)
Bake potatoes in oven or microwave baked and cut into halves. Thoroughly combine the quark with the linseed (flaxseed) oil. You add a little milk to soften the mixture. Then add herbs, and other seasonings and linseed meal if used. Top the potatoes with the cheese mix and serve with a side salad. This makes an ideal meal for the Budwig diet.

Indian-Style Crushed Potatoes

Method:
Boil a helping of potatoes for each person, until well cooked and starting to break up, drain thoroughly. Then add per person a generous dessertspoon of Flax Farm Cold-pressed Linseed (flaxseed) oil  alone or it can be thoroughly mixed with an optional 2 dessertspoons plain low-fat yoghurt or quark cottage cheese, a small pinch of salt, a handful of very finely chopped onion, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, a sprinkly of sea salt, good handful of fresh torn coriander and stir well with a fork. Dust with a pinch of cayenne or chilli powder an dblack pepper before serving. Use warm or cold with meat or curries or salad.

Chunky Vegetable Soup

Home made soups are always best and healthiest but a teaspoon of Flax Farm Cold-Pressed Linseed (Flaxseed) Oil added just before serving enriches both the flavour and the nutritional value of shop-bought soups,

For 3-4 servings. Method:
Soften 1-2 chopped onion and 1-2 cloves garlic in olive oil or coconut oil. Add any chopped vegetables of your choice, slow cooking ones first: carrots, parsnips, celery, fennel root, potatoes, thoroughly cover with stock (or water with a stock cube) add a large tin of chopped tomatoes and a good handful of red lentils.  Boil until nearly soft then add the quicker cooking vegetables like peppers, courgettes, cauliflower, broccoli, peas etc and crumbled stock cube or salt, cook until they are all soft. Then take off the heat and add 1-2 teaspoons per person Flax Farm Cold-pressed Linseed (Flaxseed) Oil.  Finish with freshly ground black pepper, a squeeze of lemon juice (optional) and chopped fresh herbs to taste.

Creamed Vegetable Soup

Follow the chunky vegeatble soup recipe, but add a little extra stock at the end and liquidise with a blender and add the linseed oil and herbs just before serving.

A Healthy Alternative to Cream

With no "naughty" fats and brimming with omega-3 it's very healthy but you'd never guess it. It just tastes really creamy and delicous and everyone i have served it to say they prefer it to cream with fresh and cooked fruit

Simply combine two parts of quark (a virtually totally fat-free, cholesterol-free soft cheese available in all good supermarkets (Waitrose do a nice one)) with one part Flax Farm’s cold-pressed linseed (flax seed) oil and beat well. Try with lemon juice, herbs and black pepper as alternative to sour cream as a topping for potatoes or pasta  or in desserts . If required for desserts you can add a pinch of sweetener and a drop of vanilla essence.  It isn’t as stable to heat as real cream but many people prefer the taste and it is a far healthier option! Ideal for the Budwig protocol. 

Creamed Quark with Flax Farm Cold-pressed Linseed (Flaxseed) Oil with fresh ginger and blackcurrants.

• 2 tablespoons Flax Farm Cold-pressed Linseed Oil.
• 4 tablespoons quark, cottage cheese or 6 tablespoons fat-free yoghurt.
• 1 teaspoon fresh ginger grated finely and mashed with the flat side of a knife.
• 1 tablespoon blackcurrants brought quickly and briefly to the boil in 1 tablespoon water.
• Almonds and Brazil nuts. Optional.
• Xylitol, stevia or other suitable sweetener to taste.