PLATTSBURGH — Sam Sherman can help you get your freekeh on in the kitchen.
“Freekeh is produced from two different grains,” said Sam Sherman, co-owner of Champlain Valley Milling, located at 6679 Main St. in Westport.
“The German production is made from a grain called spelt, which is harvested in the green stage. And then the outer shell, the hull, is flame roasted off of that unit. In the Middle East, it’s more grown from a hard wheat called durum wheat, and the process is basically the same.”
Freekeh isn’t the grain but what the product is called after the manufacturing process.
“We have a farmer in Central New York who is of German descent. Our freekeh is made from spelt. He produced it and needed to figure out how to now market it,” Sherman said.
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