
Ingredients
Method
- In a large bowl, soak the cashews, almonds and sunflower seed in the 2 cups of water for 24 hours.
- Drain well and place in a blender.
- Zest 3 of the limes into the blender and reserve the rest of the zest for another recipe.
- Juice all 8 limes into the blender and blend on high for 1 minute.
- Slowly add the 1 3/4 cup water to the blender while on high and blend until creamy and smooth.
- Open up and then layer your cheese cloth together on top of each other.
- Spoon in the cheese into the center. Gather the sides of your cheese cloth up to make a pouch over the cheese and twist tie the top that is gathered tightly to the cheese but do not squeeze.
- Place the chop sticks on either side of the gather at the twist tie and rubber band it together so you can hang it.
- Find a container to suspend the cheese ball from to allow it to drain. It needs to be at least 2 inches deeper that the cheese ball. Suspend it using the chop sticks as itβs support across the opening of your container.
- Hang for 48 hours, drain the container if need be.
- Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator up to 1 day. This is your nut/seed cheese.
- Halve and pit your dates and Cover the dates with the water in a small bowl for 24 hours.
- Reserve the dates and reserve the liquid (date syrup).
- Place on the solid tray of your dehydrator and dehydrate at 110 degrees F until crisp.
- Now powder and place in a sealed container out of the sunlight or heat.
- It is ready to use in any recipe that you want to help turn GREEN!
- In your blender, blend on high until smooth.
- Place on a solid tray in your dehydrator and dehydrate at 110 degrees F until 2/3 rds of the original amount and is slightly thick (about 3 hours).
- Stir often, this is your strawberry sauce.
- In your food processor, fine grind the coconut and cashews into a fine meal, place in a medium mixing bowl.
- Fold in the soaked dates and mix well, this is your crust mix.
- In a blender, place the NUT/SEED CHEESE in with the MIXING INGREDIENTS and blend until smooth, this is your cheese mix.
- In a medium waxed paper lined metal pan (9 x 13) press the crust mix in the bottom evenly.
- Now pour the cheese mix on top of the crust and evenly smooth out.
- Cover and place flat in your freezer and freeze for at least 4 hours to set.
- Remove the pan from the freezer and trim the edges about 1/2 inch to make even.
- Now gently slice the set cheesecake into 24 even squares or use a small ring cutter to cut circles like I did.
- Use a cake spatula and remove each piece and place on a flat clean surface.
- Reserve any trimmings to snack on for later.
- Gather 6 serving plates and 2/3 cup of coconut shreds.
- On each plate: start by swirling 1 tablespoon of strawberry sauce in a circle and make a dollop in the center, place 1 cheesecake piece (crust up) in the center.
- Top with 1 teaspoon of strawberry sauce and a few coconut sprinkles.
- Now top with a cheesecake piece (green side down).
- Now top with a small whole strawberry, sprinkle with coconut shreds and serve.