Raw Diet Recipes - More Awesome Raw Living Food Recipes!
Here is another page dedicated to raw diet recipes for your enjoyment.
To begin this page, I'd like to tell you about something that we did recently.
Jaye was doing a story for work on the raw food diet (he works for a newspaper and website doing online video content) and as part of the story he had to prepare a three course meal for Chef Uwe Michael, who is Director of Kitchens at the Radisson Blu Hotel here in Dubai, and he is also a World Association of Chefs judge.
Chef Uwe said he had never met a raw vegan before and had never sampled any raw vegan cuisine.
So, the night before I made my famous
raw vegan cheesecake
and in the morning Jaye set off with a cooler box full of fresh ingredients and a ready made cheesecake.
Once at the hotel, he quickly whipped up two raw diet recipes for the starter and the mains and cut a thick slice of cheesecake to present to Chef Uwe.
Well, Chef Uwe loved the food. He even called over a fellow chef to taste, saying that they should keep quiet about it being raw vegan food and see what the other chef said. Needless to say, the other chef loved the food too, and only after he had expressed his full approval of the dishes, was he told that it was raw vegan!
So all in all this was a fabulous success! See the video of Jaye and Chef Uwe below:
So, to start off this page of raw diet recipes, I am going to include the recipes from the video.
Blend together in a blender until smooth and serve.
Serves 1
Beetroot Zucchini Pasta with Tomato Salsa and Cashew Basil Cream
Pasta Ingredients:
1x Zucchini peeled 1x Beetroot peeled
Tomato Salsa Ingredients:
2x Tomatoes 2x Red bell peppers 2x Celery stalks 10x Sundried tomatoes (dry, no oil) 4x medjool dates
Cashew Basil Cream Ingredients:
1x cup cashew nuts (raw, unsalted) 1x lime, peeled 1x cup fresh basil 1x Celery Stalk 40ml fresh water
Method:
Using a spiralizer, put the zucchini and the beetroot through to make pasta spirals.
If you don't have a spiralizer, you can also just use a potato peeler and peel the zucchini and beetroot into thin strips.
Blend sauce ingredients into a smooth tomato salsa sauce and pour over the pasta.
Blend the cashew cream ingredients into a smooth cream and spoon on top of the sauce.
Garnish with some celery, lettuce and cherry tomatoes.
The recipe as mentioned above will leave you with left over cashew basil cream - just use this as a salad dressing over the following few days. It keeps in the fridge very well for a few days.
However, when I made this, the topping did not come out as planned. I was making it the night before and I knew it was going to have to be transported in a cooler box.
Therefore, when I saw my frozen strawberry topping melting and looking a little worse for wear, I realized I had to modify my recipe. So I spooned the blended frozen strawberries off the top of the cheesecake and put them back into the blender. I added a cup of macadamia nuts, a tablespoon of lemon juice and two tablespoons of date honey and blended it up again.
It made this wonderful strawberry custard that set beautifully in the fridge and allowed the pie to look beautiful when presented to Chef Uwe.
Garnished with fresh strawberries, the left over pie was swiftly polished off by Jaye's colleagues who couldn't praise it highly enough. So if you're looking for a recipe that impresses, then definitely give this one a try.
NO complicated ingredients, NO sprouting or dehydrating or fancy kitchen equipment required! Stunning recipes using simple fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, ready to eat in minutes!