If you follow the recipes we post here with any regularity, you already know how crazy we are for zucchini. You might know the famous capacity for this undervalued vegetable to become noodles. Well, lasagna is a sort of noodle. And so here we are! Zucchini Lasagna! This amazing lasagna is lasagna without wheat and without cheese! It’s basically a magic trick. But unlike magic tricks, even you can produce it! It’s remarkably simple. All you need is a food processor. A mandolin is helpful but not required!
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Nori Sushi Rolls With Sunflower Mayo
If raw vegan nori rolls with sunflower mayonnaise and tamari salsa excites you, then we’ve got two pieces of good news for you! This is the first awesome recipe from raw vegan chef Jay Halford.
Turmeric Salad Dressing
Turmeric is a wonderful spice: a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, brilliant color, and delightful taste. Just lovely. It makes a great key player in a salad dressing for all those reasons! Your salad will be beautiful, and with all the wonderful nutrients you’ll be getting, from this turmeric dressing, so will you! You can store it in your fridge for a few days and enjoy this superfood salad dressing again.
Basil Alfredo Sauce
Rich creamy Alfredo sauce over a bed of perfectly squishy noodles. Yes, of course we’re talking raw!
If you haven’t already discovered the awesome magic of zucchini noodles, prepare to have your mind blown. Those noodles in that image up there are fresh raw zucchini! But before you get too excited about that, keep in mind we’re only getting started: this recipe is all about the sauce.
A rich creamy Alfredo sauce is a real comfort food for many of us. But it’s not something which screams raw vegan — or so it would seem! With a little bit of ingenuity and some cashews there’s nothing you can’t do. Throw in some basil and some garlic, and you’re on your way to a happy evening indeed. And you can do it all in under 20 minutes.
Pistachio Crusted Cashew Cheeseball
Homemade cheese is already a pretty cool thing. But homemade cheese that is raw and vegan? And covered in pistachios? That’s something pretty special. It’s like Little House on the Prairie, but nobody goes blind and everyone lives in harmony with themselves and the world around them!
Well, that might be a bit much. But at any rate, this pistachio crusted cashew cheeseball is a super fun recipe that is sure to impress your friends and family. It’s also a great recipe for proving to those skeptical friends that anything is possible in the raw vegan lifestyle. Both rustic and progressive, this recipe is a real treat.
Green Glowing Smoothie Bowl
Well folks, it’s no secret that it’s been a hot summer. Even the TV weather people are finally starting to seem a little bit less excited by another day of record-setting heat. If you’re looking to stay cool on the outside, then you might as well get cool on the inside!
This Green Glowing Smoothie Bowl is like a delicious fruit salad in ice cream form. But instead of the sugar and junk you might find in that regular old ice cream we all remember from our younger days, you’ve got basil leaves, kale, and a plethora of lovely fruits!
It’s like nice cream, but it’s a smoothie bowl. A smoothie in a bowl. Come on!
Spicy Chili Mango Soup
An age old question: what’s a fruit, and what’s a vegetable? Are tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers really fruits just because they contain seeds? Most children feel they know the answer intuitively: fruit is sweet and goes with ice cream and smoothies, and vegetables belong in salads.
This Spicy Chili Mango Soup adds a whole new layer of complexity into this timeless debate. Maybe fruits are vegetables!
With the combination of sweet and spicy, this mango soup has a distinctively Thai feel. There’s no cuisine like Thai cuisine for blending contrasting flavors flawlessly into mouthwatering dishes. Its a world of sweet and spicy, and hot and sour. This soup would fit right in!
Us North Americans could learn a lot from Thai, Burmese and other cuisines from distant lands. How to use sweet fruits with savory dishes is right at the top of that list, and it might topple the age-old divide between fruit and vegetables once and for all.
Strawberry Cauliflower Salad
This delightful fruity salad is a great way to get yourself into the spring mindset! Super easy to make, this strawberry cauliflower salad is also easy on the wallet. And with all that money you’ve saved, you can get out there and enjoy the fresh new season!
Salads are as much about texture as they are about taste. The cauliflower adds that crunchy dimension you often get from nuts (or pomegranates!). But feel free to add some chopped almonds or walnuts in there too, if you’re looking for a little more crunch or some extra protein.
The best part of this recipe though is the dressing. There’s nothing like a good salad dressing. Oil and vinegar goes a long way, but sometimes you want to add a little sweetness to your life. The combination of onion, garlic and vinegar with strawberries and agave syrup makes for an unforgettable, tangy dressing that you’ll probably want to put on all sorts of salads. And that raw garlic isn’t just for flavor!
Because this salad is so sweet, chef Lisa Viger even recommends having it for breakfast. Talk about versatility: a strawberry cauliflower salad that can be had for breakfast, lunch, or dessert. You might even be tempted to make some for dinner!
Zucchini Pasta with Pesto
This raw zucchini pasta with pesto is an amazing replacement for your traditional wheat spaghetti. Aside from pizza and ice cream, pasta has got to be one of the most popular favorite foods. Especially for kids. And for good reason. Pasta is a delicious, nostalgic comfort food that most of us grow up with in one way or another. But that stuff isn’t exactly nutrient rich, and we aren’t always looking to carbo-load.
Zucchini pasta solves all of that. It looks and feels almost exactly like old-fashioned noodles, but with all the nutritional benefits of a raw food. Looking at the pictures, you’d have a hard time picking raw zucchini pasta out from traditional noodles. The texture is so close, it’s also used to make lasagna.
The raw garlic provides much of the classic spaghetti flavour, and the pesto adds a zestful creaminess. Pasta is often a family tradition, and with this great dish you can keep it going while maintaining a healthy raw diet. This raw vegan zucchini pasta proves that comfort food can be healthful food.
Shaved Watermelon Salad
This beautiful salad will be the hit of the menu… vibrant watermelon, plump blueberries, fresh basil and earthy micro-greens–are you drooling yet?
Rainbow Tomato Stacks
WOW even the pickiest guests with these beautiful and vibrant Rainbow Tomato Stacks can’t resist! Let’s dig in to this nutritious goodness of tomatoes!
