Thursday, January 3, 2008

Raw Food Recipe for Strawberry Shortcake

I just took a look at a great website: http://www.thegardendiet.com/. Very inspiring, especially their documentary Breakthrough, that you can find at Google Video. Here is a great raw food recipe for a vegan strawberry shortcake from their website. Enjoy!

This recipe serves 4-6
You need a blender and a food processor

Ingredients:
20-30 strawberries
3 handfuls of your favorite nuts
1 handful of dates
2 tablespoons of honey
2 dashes of salt
a dash of olive oil

Put the nuts into the dry bender.
Add a dash of salt and blend until powder.

Pit the dates and process until mushy in a food processor
Add ground nuts and process a bit.
Add a spoonful of honey and process until soft and doughy.
Put the “cake” into a large bowl.

Put a big handful of strawberries into the food processor.
Process until chunky.

Put the rest of the strawberries in the blender.
Add a spoonful of honey, a dash of olive oil and a dash of salt.
Blend until creamy.
Add processed strawberries. Do not blend.

Pour strawberries over the cake and mix together.

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