I have quickly learned, in our very limited dabbling with raw food, that zucchinis are delicious raw! This recipe uses them as noodles, with the aid of a spiral slicer. Slicing spirals is hard… I’m not sure how long it will take to get the hang of it, but currently I am able to produce some kind of segmented helix structure. If you don’t have a spiral slicer then I suggest either grating the zucchini or cutting thin slices with a vegetable peeler.
You can find the recipe at gone raw dot com. We made some modifications, some accidental and some necessary. For starters young coconut is a particular type of coconut, it is not a small full grown coconut. This mini-disaster meant that we didn’t have coconut water, which is inside young coconuts, and in fact we didn’t even have coconut milk because our developmentally challenged nut ended up being empty. So we substituted rice milk for coconut water… which I guess means it wasn’t technically raw.
Jen had bought an avocado not knowing that we didn’t need it, so we decided to put in half of it anyway. This was almost certainly a subconscious stroke of genius, and may have helped us overcome our lack of fatty goodness considering the coconut was missing. Obviously, we also substituted sugar for the raw honey.
The result was pretty damn tasty! It’s a bit of a high effort meal due to the coconut, which we had a hard time breaking into… but apparently young coconuts are a easier to get open. The coconut didn’t really seem necessary anyway so I would suggest using an avocado like we did. Apparently coconut water is extremely good for you due to its perfect electrolytic balance or some such thing, but unless you’re a health freak, regular water or some other liquid is fine!
I’ve been meaning to add more raw foods to my diet, and this looks delicious!