Raw Food Diet Recipes - Easy Healthy Raw Apple Carrot Salad - Free Raw Recipe Posted By : Helen Hecker

Similar to our mom's old apple, carrot salad recipe but this is one of the raw food diet recipes that uses no mayonnaise, fillers, sugar, salt, cooked, canned, processed or non-living food. All ingredients are alive, living, raw, vegan, gluten-free and healthy. Kids love this salad and it's so good for them. This is a good healthy salad to send to school in their lunch box or bag or for you to take to work or school.

All the old fillers and binders for this raw salad have been replaced with healthy sweet orange juice. It's easy to increase the ingredients for this salad by doubling if you want to take a larger amount to a potluck or have a lot of company coming. And it's relatively cheap to fix as the ingredients aren't expensive. Use organic if possible, especially the apples.

Healthy Raw Apple Carrot Salad

Ingredients: apples, carrots, raisins or currants, orange(s), lemons, frozen or fresh ginger root and optional walnuts and shredded coconut.

For a small salad:

2 apples, organic, cored and grated with peel on - using sweet apples like Jonagolds, or Galas are best
4 carrots, organic, scrubbed, not peeled and grated
1 cup organic raisins or currants
1 cup orange juice, freshly squeezed
4 T lemon juice, freshly squeezed
2 T lemon zest
3 tsp ginger root grated, fresh or frozen
1/2 cup walnuts soaked overnight or at least 6 hours, then chopped, optional
2 T dried shredded coconut, optional

Grate the apples, carrots and ginger root and place in large bowl. Add the raisins or currants, orange juice, lemon juice and lemon zest. Add the optimal walnuts and shredded coconut just before serving or sprinkle on after dishing up. Or serve both on the side and let guests help themselves. Some people don't like shredded coconut and some don't like walnuts or have allergies to walnuts or tree nuts.

In any case I'm sure you'll find as I do that this is a good salad to make in a hurry or to have handy for lunches, snacks and family meals. Healthy raw food diet recipes are always good to have on hand and besides providing a nourishing meal you know you're contributing to everyone's good health. This is a good diet salad also for those who need a good healthy raw food snack when their dieting.

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Raw Food Diet Recipes - Pistachio Honey Butter (No Butter) Spread - Free Raw Recipe Posted By : Helen Hecker

 This is one of my favorite raw food diet recipes. It's so easy and can be made in minutes. This free raw recipe for pistachio honey butter spread has the consistency of chunky honey butter. We used to spread honey butter on hamburger buns and eat them without the meat when I was in college. I use this spread all the time. It is versatile. Kids love it as well as adults.
I use this spread on many veggies including organic raw celery. Just cut off the ends of the celery and scoop the pistachio honey butter on. It's also great on mini sweet peppers. Try the miniatures that are red, orange and yellow. Cut off the end and cut in half and remove the seeds. Scoop in the honey butter spread. Or try the large red, orange and yellow sweet peppers and cut them in wide strips and scoop on. If you don't care for sweet peppers or celery this pistachio spread will change your mind. You can get bags of the miniatures sweet peppers at Costco but they're not organic.
Keep in mind that non-organic peppers can have a lot of pesticides on them. Many farmers' markets have peppers available and they're easy to grow in your home garden.
I always buy my raw honey at a farm where I know it's raw. The supermarket raw honeys are not raw, even though they claim to be. They are heated and therefore pasteurized losing precious nutrients.
Pistachios also go good with beets so if you're using raw beets in a beet salad recipe or spiralized in a spiral slicer. Try some pistachio honey butter with or on the beets.
Equipment needed: food processor
Ingredients needed: pistachios, organic raw honey, Celtic salt or sun-dried sea salt and lemon.
1 cup raw pistachios
1 tablespoon organic raw honey
Dash of Celtic salt or very tiny pinch of sun dried sea salt
Splash of fresh lemon juice
Put all the ingredients in a food processor and process until a little creamy. It's best with tiny chunks of pistachios so watch closely. If you prefer larger chunks it won't take long so keep checking. The spread will be thick and will be a little hard to get out of the processor bowl. Keep it in the refrigerator. It will get a little harder when it's cold so take it out a little early if you want to spread it easier. Keep in an airtight jar. Keeps a week or more.
Health benefits of pistachios. The green color in pistachios is actually chlorophyll which is very good for us. The greener the nut the more chlorophyll is contained in it. Pistachios are alkaline-forming, not acidic. They're good for constipation, help purify the blood and help tone the kidneys and liver. Always use raw pistachios not dry roasted. Roasting removes many of the good properties. Pistachios have protein, good fat, Calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, sodium, zinc, copper, beta carotene, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), folic acid (B9), and tocopherol (vitamin E).
Try experimenting with other veggies and you're sure to find others that this pistachio honey butter is good on or with. This is just one of many easy raw food diet recipes that you can fix and eat and help you enjoy good health in the process.
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FREE Raw Food Diet Recipes - Watermelon And Peach Salsa

Salsa recipe that's so easy to make you can make it in mere minutes - a treat, a tropical salsa that's refreshing any time of year, this is a great change of pace. This is one of many great raw food diet recipes I like to make to take to parties, picnics, potlucks or raw food potlucks and is a hit because of the unusual combination of ingredients. And you can put it all together just before you go if need be. People love to try this watermelon and peach salsa and it's often the talk of the get-together or party no matter the group, whether raw fooders, vegans, vegetarians or not.
The preparation time takes just about 10 minutes and yields about 15 servings or so. You can make this watermelon and peach salsa very quickly actually and doesn't require a lot of kitchen equipment to make. In fact you can make this raw recipe without any appliances. And it keeps nicely in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
Ingredients: watermelon, cilantro, organic peaches, lime and sun dried sea salt. Make sure to use organic peaches because when non-organic peaches are sprayed there is no way to wash off the pesticide residue - it will be absorbed in the skin.
Watermelon And Peach Salsa
2 cups watermelon cubed, seedless or de-seeded
2 small organic peaches
Cilantro, small handful chopped
1 lime
1/2 tsp. sun-dried sea salt or Real Salt (a brand of sun-dried sea salt that is popular with raw foodists.)
Gather all the ingredients.

Put the cilantro into a large mixing bowl. Juice the lime and sprinkle over the top of it or just juice the lime over the top and be sure to catch the seeds.
Cube the watermelon into small cubes and add to cilantro in the mixing bowl.
Remove the pits from the peaches and discard, then dice the peaches fine and add.
Add the sea salt, preferably sun-dried.
Stir mixture gently retaining some chunks.
Place all in a large glass jar with airtight lid and refrigerate.
This easy salsa is versatile and goes well as a side dish or served along with dehydrated chips such as raw zucchini chips or raw sweet potato chips. You can even try this healthy free raw recipe on raw banana ice cream. This is one of many great raw food diet recipes and a favorite of mine that I like to serve to family and friends often.

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FREE How To Make Raw Sesame Seed Raw Flax Seed Crackers Tips - healthiest seeds you can eat

Raw food diet recipes you may have made raw flax seed crackers before. Some people prefer to use golden flax seeds but most raw recipes use the cheaper brown seeds and you can use either. If you've never made raw flax seed crackers before this raw recipe is easy to make and requires very few ingredients.
Flax and sesame seeds are two of the healthiest seeds you can eat. Loaded with phytonutrients your body will thank you for them. Try to use organic seeds. Flax seeds can get rancid so if you buy from bulk bins buy them from a whole foods store, food co-op or source where you know there is a lot of turnover. Keep them refrigerated.
You can eat these raw crackers along with raw soups or green salads. You can spread almond butter and/or raw honey on them. You can spread guacamole, pate or pesto on them and pile on avocado slices, tomato slices, sliced red onion and sliced raw crimini mushrooms and also top with another cracker if you like.
It's hard to fail when you make these raw vegan crackers. If you add too much liquid, the liquid will eventually evaporate in the dehydrator.
Here is the raw recipe-
Ingredients: golden or brown flax seeds, sesame seeds, garlic cloves, sun-dried sea salt
How To Make Raw Sesame Seed Flax Seed Crackers
2 cups flax seeds - brown or golden
2 cups sesame seeds (1 cup will be ground up)
1-2 cloves of garlic
1-2 teaspoons of sun-dried sea salt
Optional- 3 tsp. Italian seasoning or 3 tsp. Caraway seeds or 4 pitted organic dates
First soak the flax seeds in 4 cups of pure filtered water for 15 or 20 minutes or so until most of the water is soaked up. Now in a food processor or coffee grinder grind 1 cup sesame seeds until fine. Set this aside in a large bowl. Add any of the optional ingredients above or experiment with other spices.
Now in the food processor bowl put in some of the soaked flax seeds and add 1 or 2 garlic cloves to it and grind up. This will need several additions of the raw flaxseed- water mixture.
You may need to add a little more water as you go along to help grind it. The mixture does not need to be smooth. The seeds should be well broken up though.
Remove the flax seed mixture and put in the bowl with the golden ground sesame seeds, whole sesame seeds and sea salt and mix thoroughly. Next spread the mixture in a thin layer on non-stick sheets that come with your dehydrator. Use a pizza cutter and cut into 16 squares.
Dehydrate at 98-100 degrees for about 24 hours; turn over half way through by placing another tray on top and flipping over onto a clean non-stick sheet. Retrace your cut lines with the cutter. Dehydrate until crispy or a little softer if you prefer. Refrigerate in airtight jars.
This is just one of many different types of vegan raw flax seed crackers you can make. There are many other free raw food diet recipes that are easy to make too.
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