Secret Sauce Recipes from A Raw Food Kitchen
Did you know where a lot of the taste can be found in a recipe? That’s correct! Inside the sauce. Ultimately, is not fettuccine merely pasta unless you scoop on Alfredo sauce? Is not a spring roll just ‘bunny food’ unless you provide it with a whole new identity by drizzling on a hot, flavorful Thai-style peanut sauce?
It’s obvious that to get more flavour inside every mouthful, the trick is in the sauce. What is tougher to find out is that the ingredients that end up in typical sauces * like refined sugar, butter, hydrogenated oils, cream, and high fructose corn syrup, etc. — are certainly not healthful.
I mean, come on, 850 calories are in a single serving of Alfredo sauce from the restaurant chain Olive Garden, and 432 of those calories originate from fat. Or how about the Big Mac, at about 560 calories – 100 of them from the sauce of salad dressing, pickles and brown sugar.
If you are looking at fat and calories, sweet sauces are the worst culprits for both. Let’s take a look at Smuckers hot fudge syrup. One serving (2 tablespoons) contains four grams of fat. Grams of sugar? Eighteen! What’s the big deal you say? Well, maybe one serving is not anything to worry about, but who stops with the chocolate syrup at 2 tablespoons? I don’t know about you, but by the time I’m done enjoying my dessert, more than two tablespoons have been consumed. There are other issues with traditional sauces that you need to be wary about health wise. The list of refined ingredients is a long one, and none of them support your greater health and vitality. You will be better off to take fresh ingredients out of your garden or from your local market and turn them into delicious, healthful sauces. And more easily than you ever thought possible!
The goal of a raw food diet is to consume fresh ingredients that are preferably local. If you can manage to buy organic, do so. At any rate, I’ve made it my mission to make delicious foods such as Alfredo sauce without the cream, peanut sauce without processing and a multitude of other sweet sauces without refined sugar.
Raw Sauce Recipe Suggestions
I encourage you to sample my raw Fettuccine Alfredo recipe. The noodles are made of ribbons of green zucchini and the sauce is made from soaked cashews and delicious spices. You aren’t going to miss the cream and butter – no the calories or fat!
If your preference is for green sauces, rather than white, you can try my raw Pesto recipe instead. Almost identical to the one you are familiar with, my raw Pesto recipe includes fresh basil, olive oil (extra virgin and coldpressed preferred), cloves of garlic, and pine nuts. Here’s the big difference (that’s not so big, actually): the pine nuts are raw, not roasted.
All you peanut lovers – not to worry. I have a recipe for Mock-Thai Peanut sauce that is out of this world! I developed this recipe for the raw food cuisine book I published through Book Publishing Company. Normally, Thai peanut sauce uses roasted nuts for that warm, nutty flavor. However, I found an alternative in using raw almond butter instead that I personally believe also tastes much better in the recipe, not to mention the fact that it’s more nutritional. You’ll just have to go and see for yourself by visiting my web site, www.learnrawfood.com for tasty raw recipes and more.
Jenny Cornbleet is an expert in raw recipes preparation. Get her eBooklet “How to Go Raw for A Day” free when you visit her web site about raw food cuisine.
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