Raw Courgette/Zucchini Dish

Picture gotten from EricadHouse

Hey!

I know it's been forever since I last put up a recipe on here. So sorry. :(
The recipe I am putting up today is a raw vegan one. Raw vegan. Random, right? Well....I'm on a 14 days raw vegan detox and for 6 days now, I've been eating as a raw vegan. I've learnt a couple of things since I started this detox and come up with the most delicious meals. Here's one of them that I've had twice in the past 3 or so days now.

Ingredients
1 courgette (known as 'zucchini' in the States)
1 medium sized tomato
1/3 of a red/purple onion
1/3 of a yellow bell pepper

Method

• Using a peeler (one similar to a Julienne Peeler), shred up a courgette making sure not to shred up or put the seeds/the core in the bowl you are shredding into. You may choose to peel the skin off of the courgette first, but I've only done that once and I actually kinda like the skin on for this dish.
• Add some water to the bowl containing the courgettes (enough to cover the courgettes) and leave the courgettes in for about 20-30 seconds before draining out the water thoroughly.
• Dice up the tomato and mix it in with the courgettes
• Dice up the onion and bell pepper and mix it in with the courgettes too.
• Leave the courgette dish to sit and "marinate" for a minute or two (maybe 3) and then eat it. It tastes amazing.

Bon appétit! :)

Did someone say, "pasta salad?" :)

picture gotten from BubbleWS

So, yesterday, I didn't feel like having a proper lunch so, I decided to make a pasta salad that I'll eat (and then decided to eat the pasta salad as my dinner).
Okay! So, this was the first pasta salad I had ever made and it ended up being the best that I had ever tasted. Half of the ingredients in it were raw and the other half were cooked which made it quite healthy. Here's my recipe:

Ingredient
Umm.....fusilli pasta (GOTTA HAVE THAT FUSILLI! :) )
2 eggs
1/2 of a plantain
4-5 cherry tomatoes
1/3 of a small onion
2/3 of one garlic clove
Salt
Pepper (I used some black pepper and a dash of hot peppers)
Paprika
Olive Oil

Method

• Place two eggs in a pot of boiling water and leave them to boil for 30 minutes before turning off the heat and swapping the water in the pot for cold water (carry on with the other steps while the eggs are boiling).
• Slice a plantain horizontally to make 2 equal-ish halves. Store one of them. With the second half, slice it vertically to make two near equal halves. Slice each of this halves vertically once again to leave you with 4 "sticks" of plantain. Next, horizontally cut the sticks into about 1x1cm-ish (at least) cubes and pour them into a deep fryer for a couple of minutes (till they're nearly chocolate-brown)
• Pour about 2-3 handfuls of fusilli pasta into a pot of boiling water, spice up the water with some salt, paprika and your choice of peppers, place it on the hob and cook that pasta for no more than 10 minutes (or whatever your pasta's cooking instructions say).
• On a chopping board, roughly chop/dice the onions and garlic. Slice each tomato open horizontally to make two equal halves then slice each half horizontally and vertically. Place everything in a glass bowl with a drizzle of olive oil, stir and mix them up well. Cover the bowl with some cling film/plastic wrap and leave it at a maximum of two and a half feet away from a window.
• Once the eggs are done, cut them up just like you did with the tomatoes and pour them into your raw bowl.
• Once the pasta's done, drain it and pour it into the bowl of raw goodies.
• Once the plantain's done, drain out the excess oil on it and pour it into the bowl of rawness.
• Next, give everything a good stir and mix.
• Cover up the bowl again, but only partially and leave it by the window for a few minutes just for it to cool down a bit.
• Cover the bowl up fully and pop it in your fridge.

Now, I know that pasta salads can last for about 3-4 days, but I advice that they are eaten up the day they are made not just for health reasons, but because most of the nutrients in the raw ingredients at the time of making the salad will still be intact.

Bon appétit! :)