Low Fat Raw Vegan Recipes

Berry Datorade

2012-01-02T12:48:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year everyone!

This is the first time I've added berries to my datorade and it is sooo good! Tastes like fruity candy! YUMMY!

Ingredients:

- 20 medjool dates (+/-) depending on how many calories you need. Or the equivalent of other type of dates

- Mixed berries, fresh or frozen, to taste. (I probably used about 3/4 - 1 c)

Directions:

1. Blend dates with about 1 qt. water until smooth.

2. Add berries and blend again until smooth.

3. Enjoy! :)

Banana Carob Fruit Dip

2011-12-05T06:54:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 6 bananas

- 1/4 cup raw carob powder*

- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder

- Fruit of choice for dipping

Directions:

- Blend bananas, carob powder, and cinnamon in blender or food processor until smooth

- Pour into bowl and place in center of large plate.

- Chop fruit of choice and arrange around outside of plate.

*This is where I get my raw carob powder - http://www.amazon.com/Really-Raw-Carob-Powder-16-Ounce/dp/B001691P6C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323231702&sr=8-1

Note: I think the dip would be even better if you added a few dates to it, but I happen to be out at the moment. :)

Smoothie of the Moment

2011-09-03T17:07:00.001-07:00

...so I tend to get stuck on things, food wise, for a few months or so and right now I'm stuck on a simple banana blueberry smoothie! Enjoy! (notice I couldn't wait to drink it after I took the picture (; )

Ingredients:

- 10 or more bananas

- 1 c fresh or frozen blueberries

- enough water to reach desired consistency

- <3

Directions:

1. Blend all until smooth!

Cucumber Al Fredo

2011-08-29T06:17:00.001-07:00

Ingredients:

Noodles: 3 - 4 cucumbers

Sauce:

- 1/2 small avocado

- 4 - 5 stalks celery

- 1/2 cucumber

- 6 cherry tomatoes

- juice of 1/2 lemon

Directions:

1. Make noodles out of cucumber using a spiral slicer or a vegetable peeler. You can use the center where the seeds are for toppings.

2. Blend all sauce ingredients until smooth.

3. Pour sauce over noodles and top with veggies of choice.

I like to put my cuke noodles on top of some chopped romaine. I topped mine with cherry tomatoes, the centers of the cucumber, and fresh corn.

Here is a picture after it is all mixed up. You still can't see the sauce very well because it is the same color as the cucumber and lettuce, but it's very nice and creamy and salty from the celery. Hopefully I will get a new camera soon. My old one is broken so I'm using my computer.

Simple Sauce

2011-07-02T12:03:00.000-07:00

I made this the other day when I didn't have much in the house and didn't have much money either. :) Turned out to be DEE-licious!

Ingredients:

- 1 large tomato

- 1 small avocado (or less)

- Juice of 1 lemon

Directions:

1. Blend all in blender until smooth or keep a little chunky.

This sauce can be used as a base to add other things to like peppers, herbs, sun dried tomatoes, etc.

Can be a dip, dressing, zucchini noodle sauce, or soup base.

Homegrown salsa

2011-06-19T07:55:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

- 4 lg tomatoes, preferably homegrown or local since it's tomato season!!
- 2 ears of corn, cut off the cob
- 1 ripe (red) jalapeno or more for HOTT. If you can only find green ones you can use that, or set some green ones on your
window sill until they start turning red.
- 1/8 large yellow onion*
- 1 clove garlic*
- juice of 3 small limes
- herbs of choice. For classic salsa I like just using cilantro. This time I didn't have any on hand so I picked some dill and garlic chives from my garden and that worked really well.

Directions:

1. Dice tomatoes, jalapeno, onion, and garlic.
2. Mince herbs.
3. Through everything together in a bowl and mix with lime juice.

Another option is to blend some or all of this, depending on how you like your salsa.

This is good right away, but gets even better if you let it sit in the fridge for a few hours.

*the 80/10/10 diet does not recommend eating onions and garlic. If you don't use these foods, you can leave them out completely or use a milder version like green onions and/or garlic chives.

Summer Corn Salad

2011-05-17T19:17:00.001-07:00

Ingredients:

- 4 raw ears of corn, cut off cob
- 2 small/medium cucumbers, diced
- 1/2 pint grape tomatoes or equivalent of larger ones
- juice of 1/2 lime
- fresh cilantro to taste, minced

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients in bowl
2. EAT!

Almost forgot!! - This is really good in romaine or iceberg lettuce leaves!

Apple Pie in a Bowl!

2011-05-12T09:59:00.000-07:00

The amounts of ingredients can be changed to make as much or as little as you'd like. This is the amount I use to make one meal for myself.

Ingredients:

- 5 apples, I like gala or fuji
- About 1 c of dates - moist varieties work best - medjool, khadrawi

Directions:

1. Grate apple with a cheese grater. If you don't have a grater - dice small.

2. Blend dates in blender w/ enough water to make desired consistency. Start with a 1/4 c water and add more as needed.

3. Mix apples and dates in large bowl. Tada! Apple pie in a bowl! :)

Cauliflower Dill Salad

2011-03-24T19:22:00.001-07:00

- Sorry for the blurry picture, my camera is broken, so I had to take the picture with my computer.

Ingredients:

- 1 small head cauliflower, diced small
- 1 ear raw corn, cut off the cob
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 1 carrot, shredded
- 1 small avocado, or less, optional
- juice of 1 lemon, or more to taste
- dill to taste, i probably used about 2 Tbsp

Directions:

1. In large bowl, mash avocado together with lemon juice
2. Put all other ingredients into bowl with avocado and mix well.
3. Eat as is, or serve over a bed of lettuce, or in ice berg lettuce leaves.

Strawberry Ba-nay-nay Smoothie

2011-02-12T14:43:00.000-08:00

When you feel like digging in your fridge and pigging out on chips and dip, or pasta, or ice cream, etc. Get in your kitchen, blend this up and guzzle it down. Then tell me if you feel scarfing down cooked objects formerly known as food.

Ingredients:

- at least 7 bananas, the more the better.
- 1 pint strawberries preferably from your farmers market.
- a few frozen strawberries if you like it cool
- 4-6 dates

Directions:

1. Put all in blender with enough water to get desired consistency and blend.

*it makes a lot more than is in the picture, but I drank half of it before I thought of taking the picture. :)

Creamy Dreamy Avocado Dip

2011-02-10T05:49:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 1 small avocado
- 1 large tomato
- 1/2 large red, orange, or yellow bell pepper
- juice of 1 lemon
- optional - pinch of fresh parsley, cilantro, or basil

Directions:

1. Blend all ingredients in blender
2. Add in a little love, blend again.
3. Enjoy!

This goes really well with the collard wraps or can be used as a salad dressing. And it makes quite a lot. I usually share.

Sorry for not having a picture. I'll add one next time I make it.

Collard Wraps

2011-02-03T05:12:00.001-08:00

Sorry for the LONG hiatus. I've traveled, been without internet, etc. But I'm back! And here's a recipe. As soon as I get a picture I'll post the dip that I eat with these. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

- Several collard leaves, the bigger the better.
- veggies of choice (I used carrots, bell pepper, cucumber, grape tomatoes cut in half, and spring mix)

Directions:

1. Cut the stem out of the collards, cutting the leaf in 2.
2. Julienne all veggies (cut into long thin strips)
3. Lay collard leaf bottom side up with one of the short sides closest to you
4. Place all veggies at the edge of the leaf close to you and roll.
5. EAT!! YUMMY!

Cucumber wraps

2010-10-09T07:02:00.001-07:00

This is similar to another recipe I have, but simpler and better! Again, no pictures...I've lost the little adapter thing for my camera card to go in the computer...:(

Ingredients:

- cucumber
- Spring mix
- Sprouts of choice (my favorite is homegrown sunflower sprouts)
- Cilantro, green onion, or basil or all three

Directions:

1. With a vegetable peeler, peel the cucumber

2. With the veggie peeler, create long strips with the cucumber until you get down to the seeds.

3. Eat the seeds

4. Lay 2 strips next to each other overlapping on the long side

5. Place a bit of greens and herbs on the side of strips closest to you.

6. Roll them up and eat.

Tahini Zucchini (say that 5x fast!)

2010-06-19T20:37:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

- 2 medium zucchinis
- 1 tsp tahini
- juice of 1 juicy orange

Directions:

1. Shred zucchini into a bowl
2. In a small bowl, mix zucchini and orange juice
3. Pour orange tahini dressing over zucchini and mix.
4. Eat as is or serve over lettuce and veggies. Or use it as a filling for lettuce wraps.

** If you don't want the fat, you can just use the orange juice...still yummy!

Strawberry Red Pepper Dressing

2010-05-18T12:49:00.000-07:00

This is a recipe from The 80/10/10 Diet by Dr. Doug Graham. It's really simple and really delicious!

Ingredients

- 1 part strawberries
- 1 part red bell pepper
- a little hot pepper if you want some heat
- a little basil or cilantro to taste if you wish

Directions

1. Blend everything in blender
2. Use as a sauce or salad dressing.

I ate it on a salad made of arugula, sunflower sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, and raw sweet corn. VERY YUMMY!

Sorry for the lack of pictures...for some reason I can't upload any lately...I'll keep trying.

Fruity Salsa

2010-05-09T15:40:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

- 1 large bell pepper
- any amount of hot pepper, if you want some heat
- 1 medium size orange
- 1 big ole tomato
- small handful of cilantro, more or less to taste
- 1 stalk celery

Directions:

1. Chop all ingredients
2. Mash them up in a mocahete if you have one or just mix them in a bowl.
3. Serve with sliced veggies for dipping or use as a dressing for zucchini noodles or salad.

I'll add a picture soon. I've moved and don't have internet at my house and don't have my camera with me at the moment.

Enjoy!

Tomato Wraps

2010-04-09T07:03:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. I've been very anti computer lately. Mostly enjoying the nice weather. Anyway...here's my latest recipe. Super simple yet super delicious. My computer is being very temperamental lately and won't let me upload the picture, so I'll get it up as soon as I can.

Ingredients

- 3 medium size tomatoes
- 1/2 head iceberg lettuce (or any other green will work)

Directions

1. Slice the tomatoes about 1/4" thick. Cut the slices in half.
2. Wrap up a few slices in each lettuce leaf.

Italian Veggie Medley 3 ways

2010-03-14T18:37:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 zucchini
- 1 ataulfo mango
- 1 stalk celery
- Any pepper, sweet or hot, to taste
- 1 handful basil, or more to taste

Directions:

- Dice tomato, zucchini, mango, celery, and pepper, very small
- Chop basil
- Combine all together
- Pound in a large mortar and pestle, optional

Eat as is, in lettuce wraps, over zucchini noodles, or on a salad.

Best smoothie ever!

2010-03-12T06:11:00.000-08:00

I wasn't able to eat solid food at all yesterday and it doesn't look like I'll be able to today either due to a wisdom tooth that's acting up and not allowing me to open my mouth very much. It's a good thing that I LOOOVVE smoothies!

Ingredients:

- 2 bananas
- 1 nectarine or peach
- 1 ataulfo mango
- 1/2 - 3/4 c strawberries (I use frozen)

Directions:

1. Blend everything together until smooth.
2. Add a little water if you want it to be a little thinner.

Total Calories: 444, 92/5/3

Banana Stuffed Nectarines

2010-03-09T20:27:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 1 nectarine, or more depending on how much you want.
- 2 medium bananas

Directions:

1. Cut nectarines in half and remove pit.
2. Scoop out a little of each half to make the indention where the pit was larger.
3. Blend up what you scooped out of nectarines with bananas
4. Fill nectarine halves with banana cream!

Blackberry Banana Freeze

2010-03-07T17:35:00.001-08:00

****FYI: It's not recommended to eat frozen fruit on a regular basis b/c eating too much very cold stuff can eventually damage the vital flora of your digestive system. So it's better to just eat cold stuff occasionally if you eat it at all.

Ingredients:

- 2 c frozen blackberries
- 2 medium bananas
- fresh fruit to top, optional

Directions:

1. Blend bananas and blackberries in high speed blender until smooth
2. Put in bowl and top with fresh sliced bananas and/or other fruity goodness!

Total calories with no fruity toppings: 403, 91/5/4

Mexican Cauliflower Rice

2010-03-05T14:53:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 1 head cauliflower
- 3 medium size tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 3 stalks celery
- handful cilantro, or more to taste
- juice of 1/2 lemon

Directions:

1. Pulse cauliflower in food processor until it's the size of rice. Or chop finely if you don't have a processor. Place in large bowl.

2. Pulse remaining ingredients in processor until still slightly chunky.

3. Mix the tomato mixture into the cauliflower mixture. And voila - Mexican cauliflower rice!

* I think this would be even better with some red sweet peppers, but I didn't have any. :)

Tomato Mango Zucch-etti Sauce

2010-03-04T07:14:00.001-08:00

This is a very versatile recipe. It can be used as a sauce for your zucchini noodles or other veggies as well as a dip, soup, or salad dressing. I ate the left overs as a soup after I finished my zucchini noodles.

And by the way, I just bought several boxes of champagne mangoes and I absolutely love them, so forgive me if I have mangoes in EVERY recipe for a little while! My recipes will be using champagne aka ataulfo mangoes, but any will work. They just aren't as absolutely amazing as champagne...lol, in my opinion that is.

Ingredients:

- 2 large tomatoes
- 1 stalk celery, optional, makes it a little saltier
- 1 champagnge/ataulfo mango
- handful of fresh cilantro, or more to taste.
- 1 large zucchini or 2 small, spiralized or sliced into noodles.*

Directions:

1. Place zucchini noodles in a bowl.

2. Blend tomatoes and celery in blender or food processor until smooth.

3. Add cilantro and mango to blender and pulse until almost smooth. I like it a little chunky.

4. Pour sauce over noodles. Garnish with other vegetables and greens.

*note about making noodles out of zucchini:

- You can use a regular ole vegetable peeler to make wide fettuccine type noodles.
- You can use a julienne vegetable peeler with little teeth to make skinnier noodles:

- Or if you want to invest a little more you can buy a saladacco or spirooli. I have a spirooli (I found it in someone's throw away pile!), but mostly use my julienne vegetable peeler b/c it's smaller and easier clean up.

Spirooli:

Saladacco:

Total Calories: 243 (makes 1 lg 811 size portion, or 2 regular size portions of you add another zucchini) 83/10/7

Mango Nanna Pudding

2010-03-03T12:29:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 1 ataulfo (aka champagne mango), preferably, but any mango will work
- 2-3 medium bananas

Directions:

1. Peel mango.
2. Blend mango and bananas together in blender until desired consistency is reached. I blended it until completely smooth but you could leave it chunky if you wish.
3. Garnish with other fruits if desired.

Calories: 314, 93/4/3

New Recipe Coming Soon

2010-03-02T07:47:00.001-08:00

Hey there,

I've been out of town for the past few days and haven't had a chance to post a new recipe. I'm home now and plan to post one either this evening or tomorrow morning so stay tuned.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Blue-Necta-Nanna Salad

2010-02-26T13:27:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 6 oz blueberries
- 3 nectarines
- 3 baby bananas

How to:

1. Blend up 1 nectarine in blender till sauce-ay
2. Slice bananas, and 2 remaining nectarines
3. Pour nectarine sauce over blueberries, bananas, and nectarines in a bowl.
4. Devour graciously!

Calories: 493, 90/6/4

Blueberry Nectarine Soup

2010-02-24T17:40:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 12 oz blueberries
- 1 nectarine
- any fruity toppings you'd like

How to:

1. Blend blueberries and nectarine.
2. Pour over fruity toppings, I used 10 oz blackberries.

Calories: 435, 89/6/5

Fruity tip: If you find yourself with more ripe fruit than you can eat before it goes bad...freeze it! One of the hardest things for me about eating a high fruit diet is keeping enough ripe fruit in the house. And occasionally I'll find myself with too much. So I freeze it and save it for later when I don't have enough.

Here's how I do it: If your fruits need peeling, seeding, etc. do that. Then lay them out on a baking pan in the freezer (this helps them from sticking together). When they're frozen, put them in a container.

Cucumber Rolls with Green Sauce

2010-02-23T05:51:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- 1 large cucumber
- 1 medium tomato, sliced
- couple handfuls of baby greens

- handful parsley (or other herb of choice - cilantro, basil, etc)
- 1 zucchini, peeled
- 1/2 small red bell pepper
- juice of 1 lemon

How to:

1. Cut cucumber into thin strips using a vegetable peeler.
2. Lay 3-4 cucumber slices on work surface being sure to overlap long edges (making a rectangular shape)
3. lay greens and tomatoes on edge of cucumber rectangle closest to you.
4. Roll the greens and tomatoes up in cucumber wrap.

5. For the sauce, blend parsley, pepper, zucchini, and lemon juice in blender.

6. Arrange rolls on plate and top with sauce.

I liked the parsley sauce, but think this would be even better with cilantro. I planned to use cilantro, but realized we didn't have any once I started making it.

Recipe of the Day: Berry Banana Soup/Cereal

2010-02-21T12:43:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

- Banana milk (2-3 bananas blended with enough water to make thin milkshake consistency)
- Berries of your choice, amount of your choice
- Date sauce (5 medjool dates blended with enough water to make caramel sauce consistency)

How to:

1. Put berries in bowl.
2. Pour banana milk and date sauce over them.
3. Enjoy!

Total Calories: (using 8 oz each blueberries and raspberries & 2 med. bananas) 790, 93/4/3

Introduction and lfrv Hummus Recipe

2010-02-20T19:38:00.001-08:00

Hello Everyone!

I've decided to create this blog for those people who are embarking on a low fat raw vegan journey (including me) and need a little inspiration.

I know monomeals are ideal and strive for this most of the time. However, I feel that while I'm feeling my way through this new way of eating, I need something a little more complex than a monomeal. The recipes I will share with you are recipes that I use myself when I am wanting a little something more. And instead of eating cooked food or too much fat, I make a tantalizing lfrv dish. My goal is to create and share recipes with you that are interesting but at the same time simple and properly combined. This being the case, I do encourage you to work towards eating more and more monomeals and I will do the same!

My meals during the day are almost always monomeals of sweet fruit. My dinner meal is usually a vegetable meal with some fat if I'm eating any for that day. I'm still very new to this way of eating, however I'm not new to getting creative with new foods. So I thought I could offer some help to people who are in my same shoes and need new ideas. I've found that there is a lack of lfrv recipes on the internet so I thought I'd share mine.

A note about the recipes...if they have overt fat in them, the amount of fat I use is under 10% calories from fat for the day (that being your only overt fat) if you are eating around 2000 calories/day unless noted otherwise.

So let's cut to the chase...recipe #1

Zucchini Hummus

- 8 oz zucchini, about 2 small, peeled*
- 2.5 Tbsp sesame seeds, or tahini, I grind them to a paste in my mortar and pestle
- juice of 1/2 lemon, or to taste
- cumin to taste, optional

1. Blend all in blender or food processor
2. Serve with sliced veggies and lettuce
3. Enjoy!

Yields about 1 c

Ratios according to Nutridiary.com (hummus only) - 167 calories (30/14/56)

*I made this hummus again after making this post and used same amount of sesame, 12 oz zucchini, and a little more lemon juice. Came out great. So more volume with same amount of fat...good!

*Another note - I posted this recipe on goneraw.com and a member there, daniefon, said that she grates the zucchini and squeezes out the water to make the hummus thicker. Haven't tried it, but if you want a thicker hummus I think this would work really well.

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