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How To Make Raw Almond Milk

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We Love Homemade Raw Almond Milk

We are talking about homemade raw almond milk today. I have never been a big milk drinker, it’s good with breakfast cereal and as an ingredient in lots of products but I know a lot of people who like their milk.

After reading the book The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and learning how well animal protein grows cancer cells, I was convinced that cow’s milk is not great for the human body. I like different types of milk for various applications.

Soy tastes good with a chai latte and you can get some yummy frozen coconut treats but I didn’t find almond milk great with anything. Then I learned how to make it. Fresh made raw almond milk with a little honey and vanilla is now my favorite thing to have with my morning cereal. Here is the Happy Healthy Living technique. How to make raw almond milk.

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Raw Almond Milk Recipe

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Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Keyword almond milk

Equipment

  • Blender
  • Nut milk bag

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups Raw organic almonds
  • 3 cups Water
  • 1 - 2 tbsp Raw Honey
  • 1 tsp Vanilla

Instructions

  • Soak the raw almonds for at least 8 hours, I have found that 24 hours is ideal and seems to make the milk creamier.
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  • Put the 2 1/2 cups almonds into the blender, add 3 cups of water, 1 to 2 tablespoons of honey to taste, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and blend well.
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  • Secure the nut milk bag over the container and pour the mixture into it.
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  • Let the milk seep through the nut milk bag or squeeze it out.
  • Drink

This almond milk is a great replacement for animal milks and taste great. It is also so much better than the almond milk that you can get in the store. If you are working on changing to a raw foods diet, this is the perfect milk solution. We would love to hear your comments and have you share this with your friends.

Raw Zucchini Fettuccine Recipe

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Raw Foods Pasta Recipe – The Healthy Pasta Alternative

I recently prepared a raw foods pasta dish in the form of fettuccine. I know, pasta must be cooked you say, well this isn’t traditional pasta. This is zucchini squash sliced into ribbons that we are calling raw foods pasta.

I love my pasta and it is not something that I am completely giving up. One of the things that I like about this raw foods pasta recipe however, is the feel and the look of it, long noodles and creamy sauce. This raw food dish gives me that look and feel. No, it’s not warm, it’s more like a salad but this recipe is delicious.

I got this recipe from the raw chef Russell James.

We had to go buy a new kitchen appliance for this one as we are not hard core raw foodies yet. The piece of equipment that we bought was a spiral slicer. The first one was not good, you get what you pay for is most often the case, but the trade up works great!

This is the spiral slicer that we purchased. See our review here!

spiral raw foods slicer

What You Need

Here are the few items that you need to make this simple raw foods pasta recipe.

 

Raw Fettuccine Recipe

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Course Main Course
Cuisine American

Ingredients

  • 2 medium zucchini
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • ¼ small red onion or shallot
  • ½ cup cashews soak for 20 minutes
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 tbs olive oil
  • 2 green onions
  • 2 tsp fresh tarragon
  • 1 tbs lemon juice
  • ½ tsp salt

Instructions

  • Create the raw noodles - First slice the zucchini into strips with a mandoline slicer with a large julienne attachment or do spiral slices like we did. You can also make into ribbons with a good quality peeler. Cut the red pepper and red onion into thin strips. Place the zucchini onion and pepper into a bowl and set aside
  • Make the cream sauce - Blend the cashews, water, olive oil, green onions, tarragon, lemon juice and salt in a blender until smooth.
  • Mix it up - Add half of the cream sauce to the noodle mixture and mix it through the noodles. You can use the other half as a salad dressing or dip. Stores in the fridge for up to 3 days.

 

Notes:

We used half a red pepper as the whole pepper was too much for our taste.

This is a simple raw foods pasta recipe that we will make again for our personal raw food diet. We would love to hear your comments and suggestions about this recipe or anything else that contributes to your happy healthy living.