Khorasan is an ancient wheat with kernels about twice the size of modern wheat, and it’s the first ancient grain we’ve brought into our mill. Ours comes from a single farm in Montana and reaches you as whole berries, so you mill it fresh when you’re ready to bake.
Milled fine, it makes a golden flour with a smooth, buttery flavor and a light sweetness, without the bitter edge some people taste in red wheat. It bakes into a soft sandwich loaf that toasts well and does fine work in sourdough, pizza dough, and fresh pasta. It’s just as good in cookies, cakes, muffins, pancakes, and pie crust. Cooked whole, the berries stay chewy and plump in soups and cold grain salads.
How to Bake with Khorasan Flour
Khorasan is high in protein, but its gluten is gentler than modern bread wheat. The dough takes more water and feels wetter than you may expect, and that’s normal. Bake in a loaf pan for structure, or blend with hard red wheat for a taller rise.
Khorasan Wheat Berries at a Glance
- Khorasan Berries, whole grain, food grade.
- Mill into flour for baking, sprout, or cook whole for salads, pilafs, and soups.
- 7.5 lb bags are vacuum sealed with a nitrogen flush. The 15 lb size ships as two 7.5 lb bags.
- 2.5 lb size comes in a recycled kraft paper bag with a plant-based PLA liner.
- For the most nutrition and freshness, mill your own flour.
- Grown no herbicides, pesticides, or synthetic fertilizers.
- Non-GMO and glyphosate free.
- Backed by our 100% Satisfaction Money-Back Guarantee.
The Story of Khorasan Wheat
Khorasan is an ancient relative of durum wheat, likely from the Fertile Crescent, and named for the historic Khorasan region of Persia and Central Asia. It came to Montana by an odd route. In 1949, an American airman stationed in Portugal was given a handful of oversized kernels said to come from an Egyptian tomb, and he mailed them home to his father, a farmer near Fort Benton. The family grew it as a novelty called “King Tut’s Wheat” and handed it out at the county fair, but the tomb story never held up, and the grain faded until another Montana farm family revived it in 1977. Today it grows on the Montana plains, where it has found a second home.
Khorasan or KAMUT®?
You may have seen Khorasan sold as KAMUT®, a Kamut International trademark for Khorasan grown under its certified organic program. Ours is grown outside that program, so we sell it under the grain’s own name.
Whole Berries for Your Home Mill
This is a provenance grain, not a blend. You know what it is, you know where it grew, and you decide when it becomes flour. Whole berries keep far longer than flour, and our nitrogen-flushed 7.5 lb bags push out the oxygen insects need. Keep a supply on hand, mill what you need, and bake with flour that’s minutes old instead of flour that sat on a shelf.
- Single Origin: Khorasan wheat from one farm in Montana.
- Built for Home Milling: Clean, whole berries ready for your home mill.
