You can’t enjoy avocado toast while cleansing, but you can enjoy the hell out of avocados. They are excellent sources of healthy fats, magnesium, fiber, potassium, and antioxidants. Adding avocados to your salads, smoothies, sauces, and even breakfasts or desserts, such as this chia pudding, can help you feel fuller for longer. That means that you won’t need to snack as much between meals.

Even though you can enjoy this chia pudding for breakfast, dessert, or a pre- or post-workout snack, it doesn’t taste like guacamole, despite how it looks. This luxurious, creamy pudding has just the right amount of sweetness, thanks to the grade A maple syrup. Should you want to elevate this recipe even more, you can add a dash of alcohol-free vanilla extract and a half of a banana. You do not have to add anything else to the recipe, although we do recommend serving the chia pudding with freshly sliced bananas or fresh berries.

When it comes to preparing this chia pudding, you can go about it a couple different ways. If you decide to make it sans machines, you will have to thoroughly mash the avocado before you mix in the other ingredients by hand. For an easier time, follow the directions (below) and use a blender. If you would rather use an immersion blender because it is your fun new kitchen toy, then go for it! The only suggestion we have for all preparation methods is to fold in the chia seeds by hand, as opposed to blending them.

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Sometimes, you need a few unexpected food combinations in your life. You want to keep your taste buds guessing! That is especially true if you follow a raw vegan diet, because eating the same salad or smoothie over and over can become quite boring. This entree awakens the taste buds and is complete with a bouquet of flavors and textures. If you do not follow a raw vegan diet, this can make a great appetizer for your dinner.

Endive is a vegetable that looks like a baby cone of leaves and it belongs to the daisy family. It can ben enjoyed raw or cooked, but it serves as a lettuce cup in this scenario. It has a great firm texture to easily hold the avocado, apple, and walnut mixture. The flavor of endive is pleasantly bitter and slightly nutty, making it a beautiful complement to the sweet and nutty apple mixture. Endive is very low in calories and may enhance digestion because of the high fiber content. It is also a great source of vitamin K, which helps in retaining calcium in the bone matrix. In fact, one cup of endive provides 289% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin K!

This is a very user-friendly dish, in that you assemble it at the table. It makes for a great communal appetizer, but you will be happy with it as a raw vegan entree. The dressing for the apple walnut mixture truly brings the dish home, though. It is acidic, sweet, and has a hint of tang from the mustard powder. Okay, we are done selling it now and are excited for you to try it already!

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Ready for a nutritionally balanced, zesty, refreshing, and filling smoothie? If yes, then you clicked on the right recipe. Made with eight ingredients, including blueberries, lemon, and avocado, this smoothie is exactly what you want on a hot summer morning. The healthy fats, protein, fiber, and complex carbohydrates help to keep you full until your next meal, helping you avoid cravings and unnecessary snacking.

When you make a smoothie, you aim to include macro and micronutrients. Fat, protein, and carbohydrates are the three major macronutrients, and vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants fall under the micronutrient umbrella. The majority of the micronutrients come from the blueberries, lemon, and avocados, but avocados also offer macronutrients. Avocados contain healthy fats, protein, and a small amount of complex carbohydrates, which may help you regulate blood sugar levels.

There are two ways that you can go about making this smoothie. The first way is that you can freeze the avocado pieces and blueberries overnight, and then add them with the rest of the fresh ingredients to a blender. The other option is that you can add all of the ingredients to a blender, blend them up, pour the mixture into a jar, and refrigerate overnight. Your breakfast will be ready to go in the morning. You can also make a larger batch, divide the mixture between several jars, and place them in the freezer. You’ll have smoothies for the week!

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Get your palate ready for a raw vegan dish that is magically cheesy and incredibly addictive. Not only is this entree incredibly filling, but it also boasts complimentary flavors in every bite. You won’t believe how cheesy the sauce is, especially for a raw vegan recipe! Top the dish off with a homemade raw vegan parmesan dust for added flavor and you’re off to the races. We have a feeling that this zucchini noodle recipe will be a favorite in your recipe book.

One of the great things about eating a raw vegan diet is that every recipe exhibits an impressive nutritional profile. Containing both macro and micronutrients, this raw fruits, vegetables, and raw nuts and seeds work to nourish the body and aid with the natural cleansing process. This entree offers healthy fats, fiber, magnesium, water, protein, and numerous antioxidants. The healthy fats come from the creamy avocado, which provides the perfect base for the zesty, cheesy sauce.

You’ll get protein from two primary sources in this recipe: the kale and almonds. The nutritional yeast also offers vitamin B12, a unique vitamin that many vegans struggle to consume in sufficient amounts for optimal health. Two teaspoons of nutritional yeast delivers a whopping 313% of your recommended daily intake of vitamin B12. Nutritional yeast is also the ingredient that makes the avocado sauce extra cheesy! We hope you love this entree!

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We’ve got a great one for you today, folks, and it comes in the form of a nutrient-dense superfood salad. Tossed in a simple lemony vinaigrette, this avocado broccoli salad makes for a satisfying lunch or filling dinner. In addition to the vibrant flavors, the varying textures make this salad an enjoyable eating experience. The crunchy broccoli is the perfect complement to the creamy avocado, and the juicy tomatoes go great with the sweet and tart blueberries. The light nutty crunchy from the hemp hearts also contribute to amazing mouthfeel while you eat it.

Many people appreciate the health benefits of both broccoli and avocado. Broccoli is rich in protein, vitamin K, and fiber, vitamin C, and folate, and it contains powerful antioxidants that benefit the heart. In fact, the glucoraphanin in broccoli coverts into sulforaphane during digestion. Sulforaphane may reduce blood sugar, oxidative stress, and cholesterol levels, according to test-tube studies. Avocados are excellent sources of potassium, magnesium, and omega-3 fatty acids, which are monounsaturated fats that may lower cholesterol and improve brain health. An excess of cholesterol in your arteries can reduce blood flow. Because this salad contains both avocados and broccoli, it is very beneficial for heart health!

The secret weapon of this recipe is not the hemp hearts, although they are nutritionally impressive; but rather the Herbs de Provence. This seasoning blend features herbs that grow abundantly in southern France. Many recipes from that region contain those herbs, which are dried and combined for this short-cut seasoning blend. While the blend of herbs can change, most Herbs de Provence spice bottles contain tarragon, fennel seeds, sage, thyme, rosemary, and oregano. It truly elevates the dressing, which we encourage you to liberally coat your ingredients with. We hope you love this unique and powerful superfood salad.

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If you love avocados, get ready to love this unique take on a salad. Embrace the soft, creamy delicious gems that are the avocados waiting to be used on your countertop. Use them for this recipe and then use them for more recipes. You can’t go wrong by adding avocados to your dishes, especially if you already have them in you already have them. Like any avocado enthusiast, we enjoy a large bowl of guacamole, but avocados have so much more potential and this is one such recipe.

Avocados and cucumbers are not a new pairing. They go together like chips and salsa, with the cucumbers offering a refreshing crunch that balances the creamy avocado. Add jicama into the mix and you enhance your texture game. Now, jicama is an interesting produce item because it’s not on everyone’s radar. As far as taste goes, it doesn’t have a strong flavor profile. It has similar texture to an Asian pear, but can be a little fibrous for those who are not familiar with it. For this reason, it’s a good idea to cut the jicama into small cubes. You don’t want to be over-chewing.

This salad could pass for a salsa in the right circles, but we’ll keep calling it a salad. The addition of lime juice creates a wonderful citrusy flavor profile, especially when you incorporate the cilantro and sea salt. As a final note, you can finely chop the cilantro or tear the leaves and incorporate them that way. Some people prefer cilantro leaves that are intact, but this is a decision that you and only you alone can make. No matter what, the salad will be flavorful and a refreshing change from the standard salads people make while cleansing.

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You’ve heard of spiralizing zucchini, but now it’s time to turn beets into noodles! It’s weird to refer to them as “boodles,” so let’s just keep them as beet noodles. We can tell you that they can’t be beet! Well, that’s the first and last pun of this recipe. Anyways, this recipe comes together quickly and is loaded with an array of nutrients. From the vibrant beets to the creamy avocado, this recipe is chock-full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory properties, and more.

Disclaimer: Beets can stain your hands and most everything, but the color does wash off. This is just for you to be aware during the spiralizing process. Consider grabbing a cutting board you don’t care about, or you can simply bleach it afterwords.

To clarify, the avocado sauce is not runny guacamole. The sauce is creamy, smooth, slightly tangy, and a perfect complement to the earthy flavor of the beetroot noodles. The color combination is also quite beautiful, with the bright green beautifully contrasting the deep, red pigment of the beets. To get the sauce into the perfect, creamy consistency, we recommend that you blend the ingredients in a food processor. You can blend everything in a high-speed blender, but a food processor will whip everything quickly and evenly.

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We’re back with a new series this season! This week, on Simply Vegan we will show you how to VEGAN Avocado Toast!

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This recipe uses one of our favorite recipes, the Raw “Tuna” Salad, and enhances it by mixing it with fresh vegetables and spooning it inside avocado halves. And who was it that said that you can’t eat anything on a raw food diet? We understand that the raw vegan diet can seem limiting, but you just have to think outside the box. When you get creative with ingredients, there’s no limit to what you can make.

This isn’t raw tuna in the classic sense; rather, it’s more similar to tuna salad. How does one go about making raw tuna without using fish? Well, this recipe uses raw sunflower seeds and various seasonings that yield a tuna salad-like flavor. The key ingredient is dulse, which makes it taste like it was from the sea, so to speak. Dulse is naturally salty with a pleasant minerality that tastes like, well, the ocean. That makes it perfect for the raw “tuna.” If you have some extra seasonings that you think may fit well with the recipe, you can add them as well. We encourage you to let your inner chef out and season like a champ, so long as the seasonings are cleanse-approved.

This is a very filling entree, so don’t make too much. You can always use less avocados and fill more avocados with the “tuna” in the coming days after you make it.

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A Waldorf salad is the perfect blend of crunchy textures and sweet and tart flavors, all dressed in a wonderfully creamy dressing. Normally, a Waldorf salad contains chicken, bleu cheese, and candied walnuts. These ingredients add sodium, sugar, and unhealthy fats to a seemingly healthy meal. When you factor in the creamy dressing, it takes it down another notch on the health charts. That’s not the case for this Waldorf salad variation.

The dressing for this salad is a creamy tahini dressing that is more reminiscent of a raw ranch, but it works well with the salad ingredients. The refreshing lemon flavor and nuttiness from the tahini complements the grapes, raw walnuts, and avocado. Now, the avocado is not a traditional ingredient in a classic Waldorf salad, but adding it to anything makes it better. Are we right, or are we right? You never regret adding avocado to a meal!

In case you didn’t notice, there are more grape varieties in grocery stores during fall. Grapes are excellent seasonal ingredients that most people enjoy as snacks. Adding them to salads and other recipes, much like avocado, is another great culinary decision. Not only do they pop with flavor, but they also provide numerous healthy benefits. Although this recipe calls for red grapes, feel free to purchase the grapes that you enjoy most. Green grapes, for example, will give the salad a pleasant tartness that complements the sweeter apples. Let us know which variety you choose in the comments below.

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