As some of you are seeing with my food posts lately, I am playing with RAW vegetarian recipes to support a chef friend of mine. This was supposed to be raw corn chowder, but I knew my stomach would not sit well with raw corn kernels, so I steamed the corn and shaved the morsels before beginning.
I used the corn, some red and yellow pepper, a garlic clove, and 1 cup of almond nutmilk to make the soup base (pureed in the food processor). I then made a salad mixture with sliced celery, chopped clilantro and green onion, a small tomato mixed with olive oil and apple cider vinegar. I also incorporated Shisito peppers as the original recipe called for sliced okra (not in season--but they look like okra when sliced!--great mild peppery flavor).
The soup was semi-sweet, and the salad was vinegary-- a perfect combo for the taste buds. Would definitely do this again, especially for entertaining!
@taffy sure! I'll email you! I have been trying to stay vegetarian breakfast and lunch with a regular meal in evenings (since I'm an omnivore). Really invigorating and I feel so much healthier. With spring also comes more in season produce.
This looks beautiful Daryl!! Not sure about the raw food idea though - I have a friend who eats only raw food and most of it does not look this attractive!! Sounds interesting that you feel healthier - perhaps I should be trying it!! LOL!!
@pamknowler As an omnivore, and as someone who just installed 6 gas burners and dual ovens, I can't imagine doing a raw only lifestyle! I have, however, been finding the recipes absolutely delicious, and for two weeks, I'm commiting as best I can to do breakfast and lunch "raw" and dinner normal. This soup was not raw in the end because I know that I cannot digest raw corn.What I really like is that a normal vegetarian can cook almost any of these recipes! These are great to try as "sides" to the other parts of the meal, and yes, the health benefits are really quite nice. :)
I used boiled or steamed fresh corn (4 small ones), then I rinsed them with cold water to chill them down. Then shaved them for the kernels.
one cup almond milk (vanilla flavored actually--what I had)
2 mini peppers (one red one yellow), chopped roughly
1 garlic clove
Put all of that in my Cuisinart and ran until it was good and smooth (add some salt if you like--it will be a bit sweet, but that is ok because the next ingredients will counter it).
Salt
One green onion sliced
3 stalks celery sliced
I small tomato cut up
2 T olive oil
ground pepper
2 T Apple Cider vinegar
a small bunch of cilantro chopped
I also added two sliced shishito peppers (at Trader Joes in a bag)
Mix that together for a small salad to go as a topping
Put the chowder in a bowl, then add the salad topping in. It's really refreshing and delish. You could cook the chowder even if you liked. I am finding that the nut milk is a great replacement for cream!
I used boiled or steamed fresh corn (4 small ones), then I rinsed them with cold water to chill them down. Then shaved them for the kernels.
one cup almond milk (vanilla flavored actually--what I had)
2 mini peppers (one red one yellow), chopped roughly
1 garlic clove
Put all of that in my Cuisinart and ran until it was good and smooth (add some salt if you like--it will be a bit sweet, but that is ok because the next ingredients will counter it).
Salt
One green onion sliced
3 stalks celery sliced
I small tomato cut up
2 T olive oil
ground pepper
2 T Apple Cider vinegar
a small bunch of cilantro chopped
I also added two sliced shishito peppers (at Trader Joes in a bag)
Mix that together for a small salad to go as a topping
Put the chowder in a bowl, then add the salad topping in. It's really refreshing and delish. You could cook the chowder even if you liked. I am finding that the nut milk is a great replacement for cream!
All of the recipes are coming from my friend who is developing raw recipes. The link to her Facebook event (where I'm getting all of this is): https://www.facebook.com/events/151995231862259/
And her actual site is here too: https://www.facebook.com/quicheandtellwithbeee/