Quick raw meals

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Hi

 

Have just read what seems like a hundred messages, and seem to

remember someone asking about raw meals on a busy timetable.

 

In my first weeks of raw I had virtually no equipment (just a blender)

and no recipes. At the time, most recipes seemed to include some

exotic ingredient I didn't have, equipment I didn't have, or, due to

all the sprouting and /or soaking needed, should have had a

heading 'start last week'.

 

In the first weeks, I'd often go to the supermarket, buy a bag

of 'exotic' stir-fry vegetables (probably not organic), tip them into

a bowl, cover with ginger and honey (sorry - not raw vegan) dressing,

and munch my way through the lot. I would also eat frequent salads

revolving around green leaves, avocado and cherry tomatoes (and still

do).

 

The very wonderful 'Kale and Avocado' salad (invented by Chad Sarno)

is also easy to make, doesn't take very long, needs no special

equipment, and rather than hide it in the recipes section, hope it's

OK if I put it here, so that it might solve the problem of 'what on

earth am I going to do tonight' (at least for anyone who isn't yet

aware of this recipe).

 

This is 'adapted' from the original version, and provides two good

servings.

Ingredients:

5 large handfuls of green curly kale (don't worry if that looks like

too much - it 'reduces' a little as the salad is made)

Sea salt

1 ripe avocado

2 tomatoes (chopped)

2 cups spinach leaves (torn)

1 spring onion (finely sliced)

4 sun-dried tomatoes in oil (perhaps not purist...)

Lemon juice

Cayenne paper

 

Method:

Chop kale into pieces 1-2 cm square.

Add 1 tbsp oil to kale plus a little sea salt. Hand-massage oil and

salt into the kale until soft and glistening.

Chop avocado. Hand-massage this into the kale, so that the kale is

well-coated with mushy avocado, but with some pieces of avocado

remaining amongst the leaves for texture.

Add to the bowl: chopped tomatoes, torn spinach, spring onion and sun-

dried tomatoes, and lemon juice.

Mix together well.

Serve piled high in a plate. Garnish with a dusting (not too much) of

cayenne powder.

 

Love

 

Debbie Took, Reading, UK