Thai-inspired salad
How was your New Year’s? Mine was very fun but with too much celebration comes the recovery and it ain’t pretty.
My first week in Sydney was fairly healthy considering it was Xmas and I was able to maintain my raw-till-dinner habit. Everything turned toxic from New Year’s Eve onwards and it has been a deluge of alcohol and fried food. I have to shake my head at salads in this country too. For example, I ordered a prawn and avocado salad without the prawn and was told that the dish was 90% prawn and I was better off ordering the chicken salad without the chicken. Well it was doused in this creamy dressing and I kind of had to force it down. Ew.
This made me think of the gorgeous Thai-inspired salad I made in late fall last year. It was bursting with spiralized zucchini, broccoli sprouts, red onion, purple cabbage, shredded carrot, and cashews. I remember I had this after my hooping class and I just hoovered the whole thing and felt so blissful I had such delicious but nourishing food in my system.
The magic was in the dressing which made this opera of a salad sing.
Recipe (in a high-speed blender):
2 tbs tahini (I used roasted; had no raw version)
Juice of one whole lime
1/2 cup soaked cashews
1 stalk green onion
4 leaves basil
1 clove garlic
Sea salt to taste
Splash of water
The two-week mark in a long holiday always spells the start of my disdain for restaurant food and yearning for my own raw food. Gosh, I sound like such a diva LOL!
What food do you miss most when you are away from home?
what do i miss most about being away from home? my blender and my fresh produce. i’ve been known to take my blender with me while away.
the salad looks beautiful.
What’s the deal with salads drowning in disgusting dressings – yuk! however this looks so good. Broccoli sprouts are a particular favourite of mine. Do you sprout yourself?
@Stephanie: yeah I miss my blender too but the fiance’s mum’s blender does a pretty good job. I have to control myself from buying too much produce too because it’s not my fridge and she has a flatmate so I just buy the bare minimum…
@mariannes: nah i don’t sprout my own broccoli sprouts. Japanese supermarkets only sell those and radish sprouts which taste strangely spicy to me. I’m not sure where I could buy sprouts though…I should get off my lazy arse and find out lol!
Hehe. Making bean/lentil etc sprouts are fairly simple, but I don’t like the taste them. And I cannot find seeds for alfalfa, broccoli etc which are the sprouts I like.
From KristensRaw.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gkUokxEPeg (you might have seen it though)
Me too, I don’t like the taste of bean or lentil sprouts. Yeah i can’t find the seeds for alfalfa and other sprouts I like in Tokyo… I might have to look harder….but buying them already sprouted is no problem…