Raw Aniseed Cookies

February 14, 2014 · by · Leave a Comment
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Raw Aniseed Cookies
4 Ingredients, made in 20 minutes and they're delicious (and healthy!). As a matter of fact, the flavours keep developing and as you can easily keep them for days, they taste nicer and nicer every day! You don't have to make cookies out of this recipe, you can just roll balls, but I felt like giving these a nice shape, and to make them slightly firmer I dehydrated them 🙂 Makes about 14 cookies, depending on their size, of course.
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Cuisine: raw, vegan
Recipe type: Cookies
Serves: 14
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You need
  • 1 cup of activated hazelnuts
  • 4 pitted dates, chopped
  • 4 star aniseeds
  • a pinch of Himalyan rock salt
To do
  1. grind the star aniseeds to powder in a coffee grinder
  2. in the small bowl of your food processor, grind the hazelnuts to small crumbs
  3. add the chopped dates, salt and star aniseed powder, and run again till it start to stick slightly
  4. pour the crumbs on your work surface, flatten and compact with your hands, and cut out cookies
  5. place on dehydrator rack and dehydrate for about 12 hours (optional)
Nutritional Information
Serving size: 1 cookie Calories: 62 Fat: 4.4gr Saturated fat: < 0.5gr Unsaturated fat: 3.9gr Trans fat: 0gr Carbohydrates: 5.6gr Sodium: 3.5mcg Fiber: 1gr Protein: 1.2gr Cholesterol: 0mcg
Raw Aniseed Cookies

Raw Aniseed Cookies

 

 

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Raw Buckwheat, Flax & Chia Seed Crackers

February 11, 2014 · by · 4 Comments

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Raw Buckwheat, Flax & Chia Seed Crackers
Whenever I feel I've been eating bread while my body says 'Please don't', I like to eat raw crackers. Best to make them yourself as they tend to be quite pricey. These are pretty neutral, so you can have them with sweet or savoury toppings.
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Cuisine: raw vegan
Recipe type: crackers, food processor, dehydrator
Serves: 2 trays
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You need
  • 1 cup of raw buckwheat groats, soak for 15 minutes, sprout for a day
  • ½ cup of golden flax seeds, top up with water to 1 cup level
  • ½ cup of chia seeds, top up with water to 1 cup level
  • ½ cup dried tomatoes
  • 1 small zucchini
  • ½ tsp lemon pepper
  • 1 large clove of garlic
  • ½ tsp Himalayan rock salt
  • about ½ cup of water
To do
  1. add all the ingredients except for the water to your food processor
  2. blend thoroughly, and add water as needed; you should end up with a doughy mass
  3. spread out over 2 dehydrator sheets, at about ½ cm thick
  4. dehydrate at 46C for about 12-14 hours, or until you like their texture. This batch I dehydrated till hard but they do retain a little bit of chew. You can score them half way, when you turn the lot over, or just cut or break them afterwards like I did.
Notes
You do need a powerful blender for this. If you don't have one, you could make the 'dough' in two batches.

 

 

Raw Buckwheat, Flax & Chia Seed Crackers

Raw Buckwheat, Flax & Chia Seed Crackers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cucumber & Berry Smoothie

September 21, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

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Cucumber & Berry Smoothie
This smoothie is light, cold, full of antioxidants and super refreshing. If you don't want it ice cold, then use unfrozen berries.
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Cuisine: raw, vegan
Recipe type: smoothie
Serves: 2
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You need
  • 14 strawberries
  • 1 cup frozen blackberries
  • ½ cup frozen blueberries
  • 1 small cucumber, chopped
  • 1 tsp Maca
  • 1 tsp Mesquite
  • 1 glass of coconut water
To do
  1. throw all ingredients in your blender and blend for a minute
  2. drink while it's ice cold.

 

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Raw Buckwheat Bread

September 13, 2013 · by · 2 Comments
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Raw Buckwheat Bread
A great bread replacement, and it doesn't come much healthier than this 🙂 The amounts in this recipe will yield 1- 1½ trays of 'bread'. If you want to make more in your food processor, you may have to do it in batches as the mixture is quite heavy to process.
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Cuisine: raw & vegan
Recipe type: sandwich, bread alternative
You need
  • 1 cup of buckwheat groats (measurement is of unsoaked groats) but groats need to be soaked. Overnight will do fine.
  • 1 cup of flaxseed, ground (I use a coffee grinder for that; it is almost impossible to keep store bought ground flaxmeal from going rancid, so best is to grind seeds at home when you need them)
  • 1 small capsicum (preferably red), finely chopped
  • ½ zucchini, finely chopped
  • a smidge of Himalayan rock salt
  • optional, if you want to make it more of a savoury slice: 1 spring onion, chopped
To do
  1. put capsicum and zucchini (and optional spring onion) in your food processor and process till very fine, almost puree
  2. bit by bit, add the groats and ground flaxseed and process till it is doughy
  3. spread the mixture on a dehydrator sheet and place in dehydrator for a minimum of 6 hours, and flip it over once (place another sheet on top and turn over). when you flip it over, score the dough at the same time in pieces of any size you like
  4. it may take quite a bit longer to get it to the texture you like, depending on humidity, dehydrator and preference, so allow for that.
Notes
To make the sandwich as in the picture, you need:
2 Raw Buckwheat Slices
1/2 avocado
a few slices of cucumber
a few slices of apple
some Carrot Coconut Dip (or any other dip)
fresh dill
some lavender flowers
a smidge of salt, pepper

Just assemble everything like a sandwich.

Not hard to make a healthy replacement for crackers and bread 🙂
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Raw Beetroot, Ginger & Coconut Soup

May 29, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

 

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Raw Beetroot, Ginger & Coconut Soup
This soup is absolutely lovely; if you get the balance right, it is just plain surprising. To be served cold or at room temperature. This is what I did, for 4 entrée size portions:
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Cuisine: raw vegan
Recipe type: soup
Serves: 4
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You need
  • 2 beetroots medium sized
  • 1 tbsp raw agave nectar
  • 1.5 cup of filtered water
  • ½ of spring onion
  • ½ medium red onion
  • 2 tbsp dried Dill
  • ¾ cup of Coconut Cream (fats scooped off in my recipe, but feel free to leave it in)
  • about 1.5cm of fresh ginger
  • juice of about ½ to 1 lemon
  • pepper
  • 1.5 tsp Himalayan Rock Salt
To do
  1. grate the beetroot
  2. then add everything to a blender and blend till smooth. Unless you have a high powered blender, this will keep some beetroot bits.
  3. serve!
Notes
I served this at room temperature, but would serve it cold in summer, even with a few ice cubes 🙂

 

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Raw Cucumber & Avocado Soup w Capers

April 30, 2013 · by · Leave a Comment

 

 

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Raw Cucumber & Avocado Soup w Capers
This is a lovely, delicate soup, served cold. Although made with avocado, it is not heavy at all.
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Cuisine: raw & vegan
Recipe type: soup
You need
  • ½ tall cucumber, chopped
  • 1 avocado, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 cup of coconut water
  • 1 heaped tsp of fennel seed
  • 1 pinch of mild chilli powder
  • juice & zest of ½ lime
  • juice & zest of ½ lemon
  • 10 fresh basil leafs
  • pepper
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp of capers (or more, but it shouldn't become a caper soup 🙂 )
  • optional: ½ tbsp of Smoky Toasted Coconut Flakes, or plain toasted coconut flakes.
To do
  1. put everything except for the last two items in the blender, and whizz until it is a nice fluffy soup
  2. taste and tweak
  3. cool in fridge
  4. when you serve, top with capers, an extra basil leaf and coconut flakes.
Notes
If you want to make toasted coconut flakes: just toss some flakes in a dry hot pan and stir, they will toast pretty quickly. Once off the heat they will continue to crisp.
Here's a recipe for baked smoky flakes, and here's one for raw smoky flakes.

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