28 Jun, 2010
Meatballs: Raw, Vegan, NO Mushroom, NOT Dehydrated (made with sunflower seeds and almond butter)
Posted by: Angela Leeds In: *LGS Daily Recipe|Main Dishes
And the theme for more savory, “meaty” raw and living food options continues…
“Meaty” dishes in the raw vegan world usually entail one (or both) of the following: mushrooms or dehydration. My project this week is to expand upon the meaty options not using either of these options. Because, in the mission to expand and develop the food culture involving all the ways we can possibly feed ourselves with nutrient-rich, enzyme-rich, vitality-rich raw and living foods, OPTIONS are so important.
New Options For A Raw & Living Food Culture
In the cooked-food world, we are more familiar with OPTIONS. When we look at the food stuff in our cupboards and in our fridge, we already have a rich cultural background that speaks to us almost instinctively as to how we can feed ourselves with what is on-hand. We’ve got family culture, television culture, cookbook culture, school culture, restaurant culture… all of that behind us.
But when we face our raw ingredients, we can get stumped pretty quickly after getting past the make-a-salad, eat-a-piece-of-fruit, make-a-green-smoothie options.
So… here is just one option for how to make a “meatball” type of recipe, something that will add a grounding, filling, savory quality to a raw pasta meal.
This particular meatball (raw vegans often call them “neatballs”… I guess as in “Not mEAT”), holds its shape nicely but is easy to cut into pieces, and in fact is better, in my opinion, when it is cut into pieces and eaten in small bits with your pasta because it is quite rich. Fresh garlic, red onion, and fresh oregano lend a simple classive meatball flavor, while raw almond butter binds the sunflower seed mixture together.
And they look like actual meatballs… and can be make on-the-spot, no dehydrating necessary!
Next, I’ll be playing with this recipe a bit and conjuring up something similiar but with a different texture, using raw zucchini! Once again… OPTIONS!
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