One of my favorites recipes ever is the recipe I found a long time ago in one of my raw food recipe books. Thing is, I’m so thankful I blogged about it, because I cannot find that recipe book anywhere! Silly g!
This week I want to share with you the recipe, and the pure love I have from taking a few photos and sharing with you. We love to incorporate raw foods into our diets. I really feel a difference from all of the digestive enzymes that penetrate and seduce my cells. For those of you just hearing about raw foods, it’s essentially not cooking fruits and or veggies over certain degrees of temperature. Consuming nuts and some grains in their less processed versions. The idea is that the enzymes are denatured and are no longer as nutrient and enzymatically available. I don’t feel that all veggies should be consumed raw, I think we all find out through experience the ones that we can’t. For instance, I use to use kale in my green smoothies, however my body just does not seem to agree. I can lightly steam it and I’m fine. It’s cool, I now use spinach and sprouts in my green smoothies. The key is with raw foods is EXPERIMENTATION! mmmmmm yes it’s so fun to experiment.
“Meat” 1 1/2 cups raw walnuts, ground in a food processor or “dry” vitamix 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin 3/4 teaspoon ground coriander 2 tablespoons nama shoyu or I like to use braggs liquid amino acids.
Raw Tacos!
1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, braggs at the end. I use a fork. I recommend using the dry vitamix or blender you have, and not grinding the walnuts up too fine, it maintains a great texture when all is said and done! You don’t want to overuse braggs, just enough to combine the walnuts and seasonings.
2. I love to use cabbage as my “taco shells”. Last night we used green and purple cabbage. I have found it to be easier to break the leaves apart if the cabbages are at room temperature.
Fresh Tomato Salsa:
2 cups chopped tomatoes
3/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 cup chopped yellow onions or scallions
2 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 cloves garlic, minced
rounded 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tblsp ground cumin
3/4 teaspoon ground coriander
3. combine all of the ingredients in a medium mixing bowl, mix well.
4. Build your raw taco
I like to add a think layer of my “meat” at the base of the cabbage, then I like to add the fresh tomato salsa. At this point you can garnish your tacos however you like. I love to use avocados and sprouts. Last night we grilled up some shitake mushrooms as well. Shredded carrots, raw corn, spinach, you get the point. Add what you enjoy the most.
I totally meant to make some cheese. *grind up some cashews with a pinch of sea salt and one clove of garlic. Sprinkle on. It’s incredible!
The flavors start to combine, and it seriously erupts your mouth with decadence! Before you know it, you will have eaten one and have totally forgotten to take a photo. Good thing I ate two!
We had leftovers today, so I decided to make us raw taco salads! this time I remembered the *cheese and I made a raw tahini dressing! Totally did not get one photo! It went into my belly and all is well for the night! We’ll do it again, and next time I will share it in full.
I hope your bellies are happy and nurtured by beautiful and lively foods!
xoxo
georgette
mmmmmmmm, delish well done. I’ll have to put that one on my to try list.
I’m feeling so freaking silly and happy right now! xoxo