Raw foods may not be suitable for everyone. It’s important to consult a healthcare professional before starting a raw food diet.
Easy Raw Food Recipes for Beginners and All About the Raw Food Diet
What Is The Raw Food Diet
The raw food diet focuses on consuming unprocessed, uncooked foods, mainly fruits, vegetables, and nuts, in their natural state. It’s inspired by early human diets before the discovery of cooking, emphasizing that heating food above 45-47 degrees Celsius can destroy beneficial nutrients.
Easy Raw Food Recipes for Beginners
Avocado Salad With Apple
Easy raw food recipes for beginners – Avocado salad recipe
Ingredients
2 medium ripe avocados
2 medium green apples
1 medium red apple
1 scallion
1 tablespoon unsalted pumpkin seeds (sorted)
3 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon of sumac
1/2 teaspoon of salt
For service
2 tablespoons of pomegranate seeds
Recipe
1. Halve and cube avocados, remove the seeds, and mix them with lemon juice.
2. Thoroughly wash and finely chop the scallion, allowing excess water to drain.
3. Peel and cube green apples, quarter and slice red apples after removing seeds to match the green ones.
4. Combine all chopped ingredients in a large bowl, season with salt, add pumpkin seeds and sumac, and mix well.
5. Plate the salad, drizzling olive oil and sprinkling pomegranate seeds over it just before serving, if desired.
Refreshing salad
Refreshing salad recipe
Ingredients
1 large bowl of greens
8 strawberries
10 cherry tomatoes
1 tablespoon of molasses
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 lemon juice
5 dried apricots
Recipe
1. Wash the greens with plenty of water and dry them thoroughly.
2. In a bowl, mix the olive oil, lemon juice and pomegranate syrup.
3. Cut the strawberries into 4 equal parts.
4. Cut the dried apricots lengthwise into strips.
5. In a large bowl, combine the greens, tomatoes, strawberries and apricots. Add the sauce and mix.
Spicy Pineapple Smoothie
Pineapple smoothie recipe
Ingredients
6.5 fl oz skimmed milk
80 grams of pineapple (1 slice)
60 grams of banana (1/2 piece)
1 tablespoon of yogurt (drained)
1 teaspoon of chia seeds
1/2 teaspoon powdered turmeric
1 teaspoon of grated coconut
Recipe
Blend all ingredients briefly until they remain slightly lumpy.
Kiwi Smoothie
Kiwi smoothie recipe
Ingredients
6.5 fl oz freshly squeezed green apple juice
1 piece of kiwi
100 grams of baby spinach
1/2 bunch of vegetables
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
Recipe
1. Juice green apples to make freshly squeezed apple juice.
2. Chop peeled kiwi into small pieces and thoroughly wash and dry baby spinach leaves.
3. Remove parsley leaves from the stems. Blend these ingredients with lemon juice until smooth. Serve the mixture in large glasses immediately.
Energy Bars
Energy bar recipe
Ingredients
1/2 cup of cashews
1/2 cup of oatmeal
1/2 cup of blueberries
1 tablespoon of peanut butter
4 pieces dates
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon of grated lemon peel
Recipe
Soak the dates in warm water for half an hour beforehand. If you like the taste of the cinnamon, be sure to add it to the recipe so that your blood sugar is balanced.
1. Process raw cashews, oatmeal, and blueberries in a food processor. Chop soaked dates into tiny cubes.
2. Enhance the flavor with powdered vanilla or vanilla seeds, grated lemon peel, peanut butter, and cinnamon powder to taste.
3. Form the mixture into walnut-sized balls and refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving to your loved ones.
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