Gluten Free
Avocado Vegetable Dip
There are so many dips available to buy at the grocery store but this is much more healthy, fresh, and tasty.
Ingredients:
1 ripe avocado, peeled & pitted
1 tsp. onion, finely minced
1 stalk of celery, finely chopped
1 – 2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tomato, chopped
Nori & Dsulse seaweed flakes to taste
Directions:
1. Mash avocado.
2. Add onion, celery and lemon juice and mix in well.
3. Gently mix in chopped tomato.
4. Serve with corn chips or slices of vegetables.
Apple Cake – Vegan Gluten Free
Practice Makes Perfect!
It took me FIVE TIMES to get this recipe just right!
All my happy taste testers liked it right away but I knew it could be even better…and the following recipe is.
This is a deeply satisfying cake filled with healthy ingredients. Apples being one of them!
Apple Cake – Vegan Gluten Free (dairy & egg free)
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh apples + 1/2 cup sliced apples for top
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Coconut Butter Icing
How to make a dairy free and sugar free icing?
Finally I had an idea; it is good and certainly healthier then cups full of icing sugar and butter. And you know what? It tastes good!
Coconut Butter Icing
Ingredients:
1/3 cup Coconut oil
1/3 cup Rice syrup
1/2 cup Almond meal
1 Tbsp Arrowroot powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
- Cream together coconut oil and rice syrup.
- Mix in vanilla, almond meal, and arrowroot.
- Ice cake after it is cool.
Cabbage and Walnut Salad
Salad Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups finely shredded green cabbage
1/4 cup shredded carrots
1/4 cup chopped celery
3 tablespoons broken walnut pieces
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
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Adzuki Vegetable Bean Stew
This is a simple recipe with one of the easiest to digest beans; adzuki beans. I love them.
Ingredients:
1 onion, finely chopped
3 sticks of celery, sliced
1 zucchini, chopped
2 carrots, sliced
2 – 5 garlic cloves, minced
1- 2 inches of fresh ginger, chopped
1 1/2 cups adzuki beans
3 pieces of Wakame Seaweed, rinsed and broken into pieces
2 – 6 tbsp. Tamari
Few drops of Stevia (optional)
Directions:
1. Cook adzuki beans for 1 – 2 hours the time is dependant on the age of the beans. (cook according to this recipe)
2. When beans are soft, add Wakame and cook for another few minutes.
3. Then add onions, celery, zucchini, carrots, ginger and garlic.
4. Simmer for 1/2 hour or till vegetables are tender.
5. Add Tamari to taste and a few drops of stevia.
6. Serve with a whole grain.
Check out the Nutrition Facts on a Serving Size 1/4 cup (48g) of Adzuki beans!
Calories 160 Protein 11g
Total Fat 0.5g Potassium 600mg
Dietary Fiber 6g Sugars 0g
Total Carbohydrate 29g
To learn more about the benefits and how to avoid the gas experience of beans go to: Beans, Beans and more Beans
Carrots with Arame
Seaweed Recipe for Health
This is a great addition to any meal especially if you like ginger and carrots.
Ingredients:
½ cup arame
2 – 3 tbsp. tamari
½ tbsp. fresh ginger, grated
3 – 5 carrots cut into match stick lengths
Directions:
- Cover arame with water.
- Soak arame for 10 minutes.
- Boil, uncovered, arame, tamari, and grated ginger gently till most of the liquid has evaporated.
- Add the carrots.
- Cover and cook till carrots are slightly tender.
- Remove lid and cook till all the water has evaporated.
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