The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Absolutely delicious and as savory and juicy as a buffalo burger… but entirely raw, living, and vegan. Not only that, it’s made from Utterly Pedestrian ingredients, which is currently becoming a theme for the Live Green Smoothie Diet site.

The more I “jack up the raw”, the more I crave non-sweet, non-chilled, very-savory dishes. And they can be a challenge in the culture of the raw food world.

But personally, I need them, and the kind that can be made now, this “because-I’m-hungry” moment, not after several hours (or days) of soaking-sprouting-dehydrating. So this genre of make-on-the-spot-savory-food-from-utterly-pedestrian-ingredients is becoming a bit of a personal specialty.

This dish, made from plain ol’ button mushrooms, tomatoes, scallions, olive oil, salt and fresh pepper, can also be amped up with a bit more exotic flavor — just use portabellas, shitakes, maitakes, fresh chaga, reishi… you name it, any of your favorite mushrooms.

But failing that, you can also make this for dinner with the commonest ingredients in your local produce section.

One aspect of this recipe is that, after all the ingredients are combined, the dish is heated very briefly in the oven, not to cook but just to sweat the mushrooms a wee bit. As you can see in the photos, this is not a cooked dish, and by the time you spoon the filling out onto your wrap material (red leaf lettuce leaves, here) the dish is entirely room temperature. But just a few moments of warmth allows all the flavors to meld so nicely!

I ate the entire dish for dinner, without anything else… nothing “rawish” added, just what you see here. It was smokin’ delicious. And so juicy it dripped all over the plate and my fingers… just like a good buffalo burger.

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