I love this one! It's great in so many ways. Use it as a vegetable or pita bread dip, as a raw sauce to go over pasta or rice, or... as a wicked salad dressing. Here's how to make it:
in a food processor:
1 avocado (peeled and pitted)
1/4 cup sunflower seeds (raw, unsalted and shelled)
1 cloves of garlic
1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 Tablespoon tahini (raw)
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cup fresh basil (well washed)
1 1/2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice (not from a bottle!)
Let it process for a few minutes until it's really creamy and then do what you like with it! If you'd like to introduce more raw food into your diet this is a good way. You don't have to cook sauces to go over your pasta or rice (let whatever you put it on cool a bit before adding the sauce or it will cook it and lose all those amazing enzymes you were trying to get). It tastes the same as cooked, actually it's better, because you are using the real, fresh flavour of the vegetables instead of cooking it out of them, along with the fresh herbs and spices. And it takes a fraction of the preparation and clean up. Good in my books.
I wonder, can I leave out the tahini, because I don't have any? It looks so tasty!
ReplyDeleteDelicious. I'm so glad I came across this today, I needed something to make for lunch. Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteAll you have to do to make homemade tahini is buy sesame seeds. Then, with a Krups coffee grinder, grind for four second intervals (so as not to heat the seeds and lose enzymes) and stir until like a paste. It is delicious.
I use a separate Krups coffee grinder especially for grinding nuts to make nut butters or for making tahini. It is great.
Tanya,
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do to make homemade tahini is find a bag of sesame seeds from your local grocery or health food stores. I use a Krups coffee grinder to make nut butters and tahini.
Grind the seeds for four-second intervals. This way, no heating will be involved, and all the natural enzymes present in the seeds will be left intact. Grind and stir until like a crumbly paste.
You will save so much money just by buying the seeds and the nuts instead of buying the nut butters/tahini on the shelves. It tastes great.
Thanks for the tips! I suppose it would be cheaper, even though sesame seeds are not cheap....in the long run, since I use so much tahini it makes sense. :)
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