Are Some Legumes and Starchy Vegetables Eliminated?

[Danah Kissiq]

Things like Potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, chick peas, lentils etc
are those completely eliminated from our diet?:confused:

those things i know have to be boiled before you eat them, or do they? do you guys still eat them uncooked? i don't think i have ever heard anyone talk about them.

I love them!! is it wrong to eat them? i mean! Lentils? sweet potatoes? all gone :( hmmm

okay, what about things like pumpkin? do ya eat those? how on earth do ya eat a raw pumpkin! :O

[Humanist]

Lentils and chick peas make good sprouts. Potatoes and starches are best eliminated.

[katchmoleen]

Only certain beans are toxic if sprouted, like kidney beans. Lentils and chickpeas can be sprouted and eaten in raw hummus or chili. Sweet potatoes can certainly be eaten! They make great dried chips, are good raw like carrots, and can be used in some raw dishes. My daughter made raw potato chips by slicing potatoes thin and dipping them in oil, then sprinkling with nutritional yeast and then dehydrating. They were actually pretty good.
My family's verdict was that raw pumpkin pie was better than cooked. Alissa has a recipe in her book. Do you have her book? It will tell you all you need to know!

[Aleesha Sattva]

sweet potatoes and yams make yummy raw fries. i cut them up like a fry and then marinate them in olive oil, curry and salt. then into the dehydrator (or not)... for a short time to soften them. mmm mmm good.

[Aleesha Sattva]

and raw pumpkin... SOUP!!! BREAD!!!



Pumpkin Bread Ingredients

3/4 cup Almond Pulp*
1/4 cup Golden Flax Meal*
1 cup Pumpkin Puree*
1/2 cup Date Paste*
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 smidgen salt
Directions:
Mix by hand and form into a loaf about one and a half inches thick. Dehydrate at 105 degrees for 8 hours on a teflex sheet then remove the teflex sheet and dehydrate for additional 16 hours and enjoy!

Optional:
To make a dryer bread, slice the bread and dehydrate for an additional 8 hours.

To make almond pulp, make almond milk and strain out the pulp.
To make golden flax meal, put golden flax seeds in a dry blender and blend to a powder. Brown flax meal will also due just fine.
To make pumpkin puree, peel and seed a small pumpkin (don't worry about getting all the stringy part off), roughly chop the pumpkin, and toss it in the food processor. Process until it is a consistent texture, but it will never be smooth.
To make date paste, put pitted dates in either a blender or food processor and add as little water as possible to achieve a paste.

Pumpkin Orange Soup
1 Vita Mix full of cubed pumpkin pieces
6 large oranges juiced
Dash of Celtic Sea Salt
Pumpkin seeds
Place all ingredients into your Vita Mix and blend until smooth and creamy. I added pumpkin seeds to the top that I first coated with cold pressed sesame oil and Celtic sea salt then dehydrated for 4 hours, they turned out crunchy and tasty.
Alex thought this was the best thing ever and ate 2 bowls. I was impressed myself at how well it tasted. The best thing about this recipe is that it is all Fruit!

Autumn Pasta
3 cups shredded pumpkin
Sauce:
2 apples, peeled and cored
2 pears, peeled and cored
1/4 t cinnamon
1/2 C fresh OJ
Sun dried cranberries
Pumpkin seeds

Shred pumpkin using your food processor or sprilizer. (I have a hand held kitchen gadget that cuts the fruit into long strips, love this). You can place it into the dehydrator to soften and warm.
Sauce: Place the apples and pears along with the OJ and cinnamon into your food processor and blend until well incorporated.
Pour sauce over the top of your pumpkin pasta and top with pumpkin seeds and sun dried cranberries.

*Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Creem*
By Darlene Navarre
Makes 2 pies

1 butternut squash chopped and the seeds taken out
2 meats of 2 young coconuts
Juice of 2 oranges
1 1/4 cup raisins
1 cup dates
1 TB orange rind
1-1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 tea garam masala spice or pumpkin pie spice
Young Coconut juice or water to blend

Blend in a blender until smooth. Pour into a Crust.

*A QUICKIE VERSION OF PUMPKIN PIE*
By Darlene Navarre

1 butternut squash
2 meats of 2 young coconuts
a little orange juice and orange rind
Pumpkin Pie Spice

Blend 1/2 of the ingred. At a time in the Vita mix or blender until creamy. Pour on top of crushed nuts

Crust:
3 cups pecans soaked for 4 hours and dehydrated until crisp
1/2 cup dates blended with fresh OJ

Pour blended dates over pecans and dehydrate.
Roughly chop 1/2 of the nuts and put in the bottom of 2 pie dishes take the rest of the nuts and place them on the sides of the pie dish. Add the Pie mix and top with the creem.

Nut Whipped Cream:

2 cups cashews or macadamia nuts, soaked for 1/2 to 1 hour
1/2 cup dates or to taste, soaked with cashews.

Blend in a blender until creamy and spread on pie.

Autumn Harvest Soup

Here’s a lovely recipe combining squash and apples! Since squash is a fruit, you can mix it with other fruits quite nicely and that is what this lovely soup is all about.

1 ½ cups pumpkin pie pumpkin or winter squash, chopped
½ cup pumpkin pie pumpkin or winter squash, cubed
½ avocado
2 apples, chopped
½ onion, chopped
1 clove garlic
4 dates
1/4 teaspoon ginger powder
2 Tablespoons cinnamon powder
¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder
½ cup coconut water
Chopped fresh cilantro for garnish
Cayenne or curry powder to taste can be added to really spice things up.

Blend all above ingredients (except ½ cup pumpkin pie pumpkin or winter squash, cubed) and add ½ cup cubed pumpkin or winter squash to the soup for texture and garnish with cilantro.

Sweet Potato Fries

I made something tonight... and it was sooooooooooooooooooo good.

I took two sweet potatoes... and put them through my fry slicer. so i have french fry shapes.

Then I put them in a large bowl... drizzled them with olive oil... and then added a little garlic infused olive oil.

lots of salt
curry
cayenne
a good squirt of agave

Mix and marinate for about 20 minutes.

Now place the fries onto a teflon sheet and dehydrate at max for two hours and then reducing.

Take them out in another hour or two... still crispy...

Save the left over marinate as gravy/dip. OH MY GODDESS THIS WAS AMAZZZING!!!

Salt and Pepper Sweet Potato Chips

No I didn't get a pic... cause I was too busy pigging out!

Use spiral cutter (saladacco):

take a couple sweet pot and make them really thin.

put into a large bowl... drizzle with olive oil

now drizzle with apple cider vinegar.

salt

now get your hands in there and mix it well. - taste

add another drizzle of apple cider vinegar if needed (mine did)

now put it all on a dehrydrator sheet (teflex)

mmmmm chow down!

[margoss]

these are great..thanks!
If you have zucchini, the zucchini hummus is really good & easy. Don't forget about snap peas if you can get them. Personally, they are not filling to me. I could eat 4 bags a day...that's almost 10.00 just in peas, but I don't.
It may be easier to try to eat what's growing at certain times. Not much here now.

[magi81]

This is one of my top raw comfort foods. It only seems to work for me with orange colored sweet potatoes, though -- the lighter colored ones have given me a tummy ache.

Candied Sweet Potatoes

1 Garnet yam or other orange-colored sweet potato (most "yams" sold in U.S. markets are really sweet potatoes). Cut into juicer size pieces and soak over night - this gets rid of the starch flavor.

Handful of raisins, or raw honey, to taste (optional)

Ground Nutmeg (to taste)

Ground Cloves (to taste)

Ground Cinnamon (to taste)

A cautious squeeze of lime juice (not too much, just enough to brighten things a bit!)

Sea Salt (to taste) (optional)

Handful of your favorite raw nuts, chopped

Blend everything but the nuts in a blender. Top with chopped nuts. Awesome!

[Danah Kissiq]

GEEWHIZZZ thanks so much aleesha for all them recipes!!!:eek: well now, thats a slap in the face, i thought it would be impossible!

Margose lol, i have never seen a zucchini in reality and i dont know snap peas? i wonder if you speak of string beans?


Magi81 thanks for that recipes it definitely simple and easy for your favourite! i should try it! (as soon as i buy a processor!). Orange sweet potatoes though? i know the pinkish red ones :confused:

[katchmoleen]

Zucchini...you call them courgettes. String beans are just green beans, and snap peas are green peas still in the pod, also called snow peas.

There are all different kinds of sweet potatoes and yams. I think you get the African yams in England that are paler than ours. American yams (sweet potatoes) are very dark orange.

[Danah Kissiq]

oohh.. i know all but the courgette lol! i will find out soooon! lol

[katchmoleen]

OOOOPS sorry, I thought you were from the UK for some reason. :o

[Rick2009]

Awesome recipes !!!!!

[Green_Woman]

Things like Potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, chick peas, lentils etc
are those completely eliminated from our diet?

If you can get a copy of Alissa's book LIVING ON LIVE FOOD, go fetch one today and you will see that she has some AWESOME recipes involving starchy veggies!

(OMGoodness, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record... but really, if there is just ONE SINGLE THING that everyone on these Boards needs to do first and foremost, it's get a copy of Alissa's Book!!!)