I recently returned from the western lands where I went to play (and work) with my sister. My sister is trying lots of raw food recipes. Most of the recipes we tried were from Alisa Cohen's book "Living on Live Food". Even if you have no interest in the raw food way of life, who doesn't love yummy recipes full of delicious veggies?! (Well okay, but if you were a brown food person you wouldn't be reading this blog at all, right?) Okay better stop digressing and get to the recipe. Here is the first "raw food" recipe my sister tried out on me (the picture is of Ali with a collard roll in hand).
Who knew that collard greens are sweeter than they are bitter?! I craved this recipe and made it first since returning to Georgia. And the good news- there are lots of collard leaves for cheap here!
Collard Rolls
*adapted from Alisa Cohen's "Living on Life Food"
2-4 collard leaves (depending on how stuffed you want your roll) with very fibrous end trimmed off
1 zucchini, shredded
1 carrot, shredded
1 avocado or guacamole*
1 cup red onion sliced in ringlets or diced
1 cup of mushrooms, cut in bite size pieces**
1/2 cup Braggs liquid aminos
2 cups shredded lettuce
Marinate onions and mushrooms in Bragg Liquid Aminos for 10 minutes. Stir periodically throughout the 10 minutes. Lay collard leaf flat on plate with inside facing up. Drain the onion/mushroom mixture well. Place avocado, carrot, zucchini, mushroom mixture, and lettuce inside the collard leaf (like a burrito). Roll leaf up and enjoy!
*I use mashed avocado with a bit of lime, salt, pepper and dash of cumin)
**Recipe calls for portabellos, but cremini or baby portabellos work great too. Also there is a great dried mixed mushroom mix that CostCo is carrying now that works well too. Just rehydrate the mushrooms and then marinate.
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What is Aminos?
Braggs Liquid Aminos is a liquid protein concentrate made from soybeans (http://bragg.com/products/bragg-liquid-aminos-soy-alternative.html). The taste is very similar to soy sauce, so you can substitute that. The benefit in taste to Braggs is that it does have a distinctive flavor from soy sauce and very umami. Another benefit is that for a veggie meal, you are getting 16 amino acids, "protein building blocks" (all of the amino acids that are necessary to get from food sources). Healthy and yumidy! Note: soy sauce for Braggs substitute is probably 1:1 but I find Braggs much saltier than soy sauce so if I am substituting Braggs for soy sauce I usually add water.
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