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Healthy Recipes

Healthy Recipes

A selection of healthy raw food recipes to tantalise your taste buds.

 

 

A raw food diet is gaining attention as a healthy way of eating. Proponents of the uncooked trend include celebrities from the worlds of fashion and acting. Below are a number of raw food recipes that are both tasty and healthy, to help get you in the mood for obviating your oven.

 

 

Pio Pio Papaya

1 small papaya

3 oranges

1 tablespoon grated coconut

Lime and honey to taste

Peel the papaya and oranges. Put all the ingredients in a mixer. Add the required quantity of water and serve chilled with crushed ice.

Mood Purple

10-12 blueberries

1 tender coconut

A few mint leaves

Honey to taste

Blend all the berries and coconut water, then strain. Add honey to taste. Pour into chilled glasses and decorate with mint leaves.

Fruity Appetiser

2 small beetroots

1 ripe guava

1 ripe pear

2 apples

1 small papaya

2 glasses chilled water

Honey and lime to taste

Crushed ice

Cut the guava and remove the seeds. Cut the rest of the fruits. Wash, peel and cut the beetroot. Blend with water honey and lime, then strain. Pour over crushed ice and serve immediately.

Crunchy Treats

Eating to the beat

1/2 kg beetroot

1 large pomegranate

Honey to taste

1/2 cup chopped soaked nuts and dried fruits

Wash, peel and grate the beetroot. Add the honey, pomegranate seeds, dry fruits and nuts. Mix well and serve immediately.

Oriental salad

1 small lettuce

2 carrots

2 green peppers

1 tomato

1/2 cup bean sprouts

1 tablespoon roasted sesame seeds

1 tablespoon salad oil

1 tablespoon soya sauce

1 teaspoon ginger juice

A pinch of pepper

Salt, lime, sugar to taste

Chop the lettuce finely, cut the carrots and peppers into thin strips and cut the tomatoes into cubes. Add all the other ingredients into a dressing shaker or a bottle with a tight lid. Shake well. Refrigerate all the ingredients for half an hour. Shake the dressing well again and pour over the vegetables. Toss and serve immediately.

Stuffed peppers

3 medium sized peppers

1/2 small cabbage

1 small radish

2 teaspoons lime juice

1/2 tablespoon soaked and chopped walnuts

1 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander leaves

Salt & pepper to taste

Wash and halve the peppers, deseed them, wipe over with a paper towel and set aside. Grate the cabbage and radish and remove any excess juice, then mix together adding the lime juice, walnuts and chopped coriander. Add salt and pepper to taste. Fill the peppers with the stuffing and serve immediately.

 Source- Amrut Aahar, The Cookbook of Uncooked Food, available at RSVK Center, Above Al Maya Supermarket , Satwa, Dubai

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