Vegan recipe from Ilanit's forthcoming book - Asian Slaw with Vegan Nayonaise

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Asian Slaw with Vegan Nayonaise

Ingredients

✓ 1/2 white cabbage

✓ 1/2 red cabbage

✓ 3 large carrots

✓ 2 lemons (juice only)

✓ 1/4-1/2 cup of organic sugar free mirin (rice wine)

✓ 1/8 -1/4 cup brown rice vinegar

✓ 1/8 - 1/4 shoyu

✓ 1/2 - 1 cup spring water

✓ continental flat leaf parsley

✓ 150 grams of hulled or unhulled pure stone ground tahini (sesame

butter)

✓ raw coconut flakes or organic dessicated coconut

Procedure

❦ Slice both cabbages and two of the carrots very finely (carrots

may be grated) or pulse to a shredded consistency in a food processor

❦ blend tahini, juice of two lemons, mirin, shoyu, brown rice

vinegar and water to a fine consistency

❦ pour the tahini dressing mixture over the shredded vegetables and

mix thoroughly

❦ arrange salad on a large serving platter

❦ drizzle streaks of plain tahini on top of salad with a knife

❦ scatter with flakes of raw coconut

❦ use a vegetable peeler or vegetable spiraliser to make decorative

pieces of the remaining carrot to place on top of salad. Make carrot

curls using a vegetable peeler and arrange the curls in flowers and

place a piece of parsley at the bottom of the flower and place grated

carrot andcoconut flakes in the centre of the flower.

❦ garnish with carrot curls or grated carrot and chopped parsley

Variations

Instead of cabbage use

• wombok (chinese cabbage)

• use one colour cabbage only

• cooked pasta

• cooked quinoa

• cooked lentils

• broccoli (blanched)

• cauliflower (blanched)

• asparagus spears (blanched)

• zucchini (raw or blanched)

• Jerusalem artichokes (raw or steamed)

• fresh green peas

• cooked hijiki

• cooked arame

Instead of carrot use

• green beans blanched)

• celery (raw or blanched)

• sweet potato (blanched)

• broccoli (blanched)

• cauliflower (blanched)

• Jerusalem artichoke (raw or lightly blanched)

Instead of tahini use

• soaked hulled sesame seeds blended with water to a fluid texture

• pure almond butter

• macadamia butter

• cashew butter

• organic peanut butter

• tofu

Instead of lemon juice and/or brown rice vinegar use

• non-pasturized apple cider vinegar

Instead of shoyu use

• non-pasturized light white miso

• non-pasturized chickpea miso

Serving Suggestions

• serve on a bed or rice or with rice or accompanying rice

• spoon into plates of wholegrain pasta or brown rice noodles

• serve on a bed of mung bean thread noodles

• serve on a bed of cooked spaghetti squash

• top bowls of steaming quinoa with this salad

• toss through noodles and top with a layer of wilted greens

• layer between wholegrain lasagna sheets

• use as a filling for vegetable

Planned-overs

✱ mix with cooked long grain brown rice

✱ mix with cooked short grain brown rice

✱ mix with cooked wild rice

✱ mix with cooked wild rice and brown rice blend

✱ mix with cooked quinoa

✱ mix with cooked noodles

✱ mix with cooked tofu

✱ mix with cooked tempeh

✱ mix with cooked legumes

✱ use as a sandwich filling on its own

✱ use as a sandwich filling with tofu

✱ use as a sandwich filling with tempeh

✱ use as a sandwich filling with avocado

✱ stuff into wholegrain pitta pockets

✱ roll up in wholegrain mountain bread

✱ steam briefly for a warm slaw before adding dressing

✱ steam briefly after adding dressing

✱ make extra sauce and use as a base for salad dressings or to

season a stir fry

✱ wrap in blanched leafy greens

✱ wrap in toasted sheets of nori

All About

✱ cabbage - a rich source of phytochemicals, cabbage is thought to

contain Vitamin U, a compound that can be useful in combatting stomach

ulcers. Vegetables in the brassica family (which includes kale,

broccoli, brussels sprouts and many others) also contain substances

that can interfere with the function of the thyroid gland if consumed

in large quantities on a regular basis. This substance is neutralised

during the cooking and raw fermenting process (as in pickles and

sauerkraut which preserves and enhancing the nutrients found in these

vegetables)

✱ tahnini - sesame seeds are a rich source of omega 6 essential

fatty acids as well as minerals and trace elements. Unhulled tahini is

richer in calcium but some feel that due to the presence of oxalates

this clacium is less available than int he hulled variety. In oriental

medicine sesame seeds are considered to be a tonic for the eyes as

according to doctrine of signatures they have a similar shape.

✱ coconut - in recent years coconut has gained a bad reputation due

to its high saturated fat content, however recent research and ancient

wisdom revered the coconut for its immune system enhancing qualities.

It contains a substance known as lauric acid which is also found in

mother’s milk. In its raw and unrefined state the fat found in coconuts

is recognized byt the body as a medium chain triglyceride and tends to

be used as a source of energy rather than being stored as body fat.

Some people feel that it has a balancing and normalising effect on the

thyroid gland, an organ which many people have difficulties with

affecting their whole body to an accumulation of toxins, hormonal

issues and stress.

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B.A. (Psychophysiology/Psychology)

Advanced Diploma Healing with Wholefoods

PhD Holistic Nutrition (candidate)

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