Raw recipe books can be a great resource, but there are also some excellent websites out there that offer raw food recipes for free! Here’s a few of the ones we use most here at Rawr:
1. Gone Raw. This was a staple website when we first starting eating raw. It’s perhaps not the easiest to search and use, but there are so many recipes listed and so many members that you’re bound to find something.
2. Raw Food Recipes. Easy to use and pictures for everything. It always helps to know what you’re making is meant to look like!
3. The Daily Raw Cafe. Again, beautiful pictures, and some really yummy recipes. This lady must spend all her free time making raw food and blogging about it!
4. Raw Food Living. Attractive website with lots of recipe ideas, including milks, dressings, mains, cheeses, desserts etc.
5. Loloville. No pictures, but lots of recipes.
6. Living Foods.
7. Have Raw Cake and Eat It. A fab website run by Annette, a raw fooder in the village next to ours.
8. We Like It Raw. Colourful recipe ideas.
A simple internet search will throw up many more websites. If you know of a good one, please feel free to comment and let me know!
Courgette Canapes Pre-dehydration Raw Ingredients
Summary: Adapted from Nomi Shannon and Sheryl Duraz’s ‘Raw Food Celebrations.’ Tangy, tasty courgette canapes, great for serving at raw parties or just for a posh looking dinner for yourself (which is what we made them for!). The end result is quite oniony – feel free to skip some or all of the onions if you’re not keen. Makes 18 courgette roll-ups.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Number of servings: 18 courgette canapes (serves 2 as a meal or 6 as snacks).
Meal type: hors d’oerves
Creamy Pasta Sauce
Summary: It may not contain cacao, but it’s our favourite recipe find in a long while. Simple, creamy and delicious, a great salad dressing or pasta sauce.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Number of servings: 1
Meal type: dinner
Raw Chocolate Crispy Cake
Summary: Raw chocolate crispy cakes, with not a cornflake in sight! Truly delicious.
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Number of servings: 9
Meal type: dessert
Summary: With sun-dried tomatoes an ingredient in so many raw dishes, we decided to try making our own. Amazingly easy and really tasty, plus you know they’re truly raw – I don’t think we’ll ever buy sun-dried tomatoes again! I used 3 punnets of tomatoes (1.2 kg) to make half a jar, as pictured.
Chopping time: 15 minutes
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Carob Coconut Balls
Summary: A yummy, sweet and salty dessert. This recipe makes 4 balls, which is enough for 2 people at one sitting, but you’ll probably want to make at least double as it won’t be long before you’ll be wanting more!
Ingredients
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Number of servings: 2
Hot choccie
Summary: A really creamy, milky tasting dairy-free hot chocolate! Believe me, the sunflower seeds do work – they add thickness to the drink without adding sunflower taste.
The End Result - Chocolate Oatmeal
The Raw Ingredients
Summary: Adapted from Kristen Suzanne’s ‘Ultimate Raw Vegan Chocolate Recipes.’ Quite possibly the nicest raw breakfast I’ve ever had!
Meal type: breakfast