Recipes
Granola
Eating this granola as a bar or as a cereal is another way to eat healthily. It's also a delicious way to get your dose of vitamins or supplements as long as they don't have a flavour or are sugary like toco (vitamin E). This delicious recipe comes from the Living Light Culinary Art Institute.
1 ½ C 300 g pitted dates
1 ½ C filtered water
1 tsp cinnamon
2 ½ C 450 g buckwheat, sprouted and dehydrated
3/4 C 90 g raisins
½ C 75 g shredded coconut
¼ C 30 g sunflower seeds, sprouted and dehydrated
¼ C 30 g pumpkin seeds, sprouted and dehydrated
¼ C 30 g sesame seeds soaked for 8 to 12 hours in ½ C of filtered water
¼ C 30 g flax seeds soaked for 8 to 12 hours in ½ C of filtered water
You can add Goji berries, bee pollen, vitamin E as long as the flavour is sweet or neutral.
~ Put water, dates and cinnamon in a blender and blend to form a smooth paste.
~ Combine the date paste with the other ingredients and mix wel..
~ Spread onto a Teflex sheet, separate into bars
~ Slide onto a tray, put a mesh sheet on top as well as another tray and flip it. The bars will now be on the mesh sheet.
~ Dehydrate for 18 to 20 hours.
Mesquite: pie, mousse and bars
If you think excellent dessert means slaving in the kitchen for hours … well think again!!! This mousse is to die for and takes absolutely no time to make. All ingredients are non perishable, you have those in your cupboards, you have a quick way to satisfy your sweet tooth!!!
Mousse
2/3 C water
1/4 C mesquite powder
1½ C cashews
1/4 C agave
2 dates
~ Blend everything in a blender until smooth.
Pie and Bars
Crust
2 C shredded coconut
2 C walnuts
1 C pitted dates
~ Mix in the food processor until you can form a ball
~ Place parchment paper on the bottom of a spring-form pie plate
~ Press the mixture down into the plate to form the crust
Topping
2/3 C water
1/4 C mesquite powder
1½ C cashews
1/4 C agave
1/2 C dehydrated pear
~ Blend everything in a blender until smooth.
~ Spread on top of the crust.
~ Top with sliced almonds.
