Zucchini Pastas and Sauces

One thing that I find humorous about raw food recipes are the names.
There seems to be a need to label foods as to what they are "replacing" when in fact they should just be what they are.

A friend once said to me that she would be more inclined to enjoy what I am serving her if I just said it was a salad.

So instead of zucchini pasta with such and such sauce served with garlic bread I should just say it is a zucchini salad with a creamy cashew pesto dressing served with a herbed garlic flax seed cracker.

Touche!

Here is a recipe for a Zucchini Salad (or maybe Zucchini Pasta with Alfredo Sauce)

First you need one of those fancy spirolli machines that can make noodles form anything, zucchini, beets or carrots.

I personally do not have the space and so I just use a hand held julienne slicer and am quite content with that for now since I don't make pasta every day, hardly every week even.

1 medium zucchini is enough for 1 nice sized serving.

You make the Alfredo Sauce by blending 1 1/4 cups soaked cashews (about 4 hours and rinsed), 3/4 cups water, 1 tsp agave syrup, 1/3 cup lemon juice, 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp miso (preferably light).

Blend till smooth and this will keep for 3-4 days.

Alfredo Sauce can be used for a raw lasagna as well.

Liberally mix in some Alfredo Sauce till you get the "noodles" well coated.

To the mix I sometimes as a dollop of Pesto Sauce ( if using raw ingredients any recipe will do as they are raw anyways) or a Marinara Sauce for extra goodness.

Blend 1 1/2 cups roma tomatoes, 1 pitted date, 1/3 cup olive oil, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp oregano, 1/2 tsp basil and 1/2 tsp rosemary.

Blend until almost smooth and store in the fridge for up to 2 days.

On top I toss in some diced tomatoes, maybe some fresh garlic and basil and of course a thick coating of Rawmasean Cheese.

Blend together 1/2 cup cashews (dry) ground into a powder with 1/2 tsp minced garlic, 1/4 tsp salt and 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast.

Believe me this is so worth buying some yeast if you do not have it in your pantry already.

Happy eating.