By leah jones
Traditionally, a raw vegan diet excludes meat and seafood, instead focusing on fresh fruits and vegetables that are (safely) eaten raw or under a certain temperature.
Try these recipes if you are interested in switching up your current meal/snack rotation without compromising great taste or your health.
This snack is made by blending dates, almonds, coconut and cacao powder, then rolling them into balls. Using Cacao powder instead of cocoa powder adds more sugar but with a bitter taste.
Add cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, cubed tofu and a sliced avocado (or vegan avocado dressing) onto a plate. Then wash the zucchini and cut both rounded ends off.
Spiralize the zucchini while holding it. Once the noodles are made, add lite salt and let them dry on a paper towel. Lightly pat the zucchini noodles dry after 10 minutes then add all the ingredients together.
Soak finely ground walnuts for four to eight hours to make them soft (or leave them crunchy). Pair walnut “meat” with an avocado slice, a bed of lettuce and salsa on top for vegan tacos.
Slice a carrot and bell pepper. Then, slice an avocado the long way before slicing all vegetables together into smaller 1-inch sections. Insert the vegetables into pieces of carved-out cucumber. Add tahini sauce.
Carve out the seeds in a bell pepper and pile it with vegetables (e.g. spinach leaves or zucchini), grape tomatoes, herbs and cauliflower rice (can be made by shredding cauliflower florets in a food processor).
To make a flaxseed crust, mix 1-1/4 cup of fine almond flour, 1/3 cup of tapioca flour (or arrowroot powder), two tablespoons of ground flax, five tablespoons of water and 3/4 teaspoon of lite salt, then flatten it.
Once it’s shaped to about 1/4-inch thick, use a dehydrator to remove excess moisture for 1-1/2 hours. Flip the raw crust over, and switch to 105 degrees for an additional 7-10 hours. Flip again half way through.
Soak raw cashews for at least eight hours, mix them in a blender with nutritional yeast and pepper to make cashew cheese and add it to the flaxseed crust with tomatoes, basil and spinach leaves.
Make raw cauliflower rice in place of fried rice. Add typical fried rice ingredients like corn, peas, green beans, onions, carrots, etc. Avoid mushrooms, edamame and other ingredients that are cooked first.
To help your body and taste buds get used to these new recipes, try adding new ingredients to familiar dishes to get used to them. You can also add your favorite spices and seasonings.
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