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New Raw Food Recipes
Since
you’ve been eating raw foods and changing your lifestyle, you’re
feeling better, finding you have more energy, and are purging the
toxins from your system. You’re also rediscovering the wonderful
flavors that raw foods possess, as well as learning about the benefits
the raw enzymes have on your health. And summer provides the perfect
opportunity to expand your taste buds and try all sorts of wonderful
new produce options you’d never dared explore before.
Don’t let
your new-found inspiration and energy get lost once you set foot in the
kitchen because you’ve run out of new and exciting raw food meal
options. Try some of these fresh ideas to and some zing back
to
your mealtime and continue down the raw food path to improved health,
energy and happiness.
Sunflower
Seed Sour Cream
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup water
4 tbsp. lemon juice
1 garlic clove, pressed
¾ tsp onion powder
¾ tsp salt
Blend
all ingredients together in a food processor or blender until
smooth. If consistency is too thick, you can simply add a bit
more water. (Adding a bit more lemon juice will give it an added zing.)
Garlic and onion powder can be increased for your taste preferences.
Portobello
Sandwich
1 Portobello mushroom, sliced about ½ inch thick
1 cup vegetable broth
Dijon mustard
2 slices sprouted multi-grain bread
1 Holland Tomato, sliced
¼ avocado, sliced
¼ cup baby lettuce
Cook
the sliced mushrooms in the vegetable broth until they are semi soft
and cooked through. Place the desired amount of mustard on 1
slice of bread. Layer the tomato slices, mushrooms, avocado,
and
lettuce. Top with the mushrooms and the other slice of
bread. Cut in half and enjoy! See some raw foods
are barely
cooked.
Raw
Curry Cantaloupe Soup
1 cantaloupe
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon garam masala
½ teaspoon curry powder
Combine and blend all ingredients until smooth. Serve well
chilled.
So
hit your local farmer’s markets, visit those roadside produce stands,
or maybe even enjoy the fruits of your own hard labors and raid the
garden and spice up the summer with some cool new twists on some of
your favorite produce...
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