Cooling Cucumber, Snap Peas and Avocado Salad with a Zesty Raw Peanut Sauce

Cooling Cucumber, Snap Peas and Avocado Salad with Zesty Peanut Sauce
Cooling Cucumber, Snap Peas and Avocado Salad with Zesty Peanut Sauce

When summer is approaching and the snap peas are nice and plump, I like to prepare a cooling cucumber, snap peas, and avocado salad with zesty raw peanut sauce. It provide a nice balance between the coolness of the cucumber and the creaminess of the avocado and the peanut butter of the sauce. When snap peas are in season, I like to buy lots of them and eat them in different ways. They’re also a very good snack. Serve this cooling cucumber salad with a nice cup of the Raw Cream of Vegetable Soup for the perfect mid-day meal. Needless to say that this lettuce-free salad is the perfect addition to your summer picnics and get-togethers.

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Perfect for Summer: A Cooling Cucumber, Snap Peas and Avocado Salad with a Zesty Peanut Sauce

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 serving 1x
  • Category: Cuisine vivante

Ingredients

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  • 1/2 cucumber, diced
  • 2 cups snap peas, trimmed and chopped
  • 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and diced
  • Meat of 1/2 young Thai coconut, in thin strips (optional)
  • 1/4 cup tamari sauce or coconut aminos
  • 1/4 cup toasted sesame oil
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/4 cup fresh peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced
  • 1 date, pitted
  • 1/2 teaspoon sambal oelek
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • Garnishes: fresh cilantro, Thai basil (optional)

Instructions

Place the cucumber, snap peas, avocado, and the coconut meat in a mixing bowl.

Blend the rest of the ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth. Pour some of the sauce on the salad and mix well. Garnish with fresh cilantro and Thai basil, if available.

Notes

You will have leftover peanut sauce. Keep it in the fridge and use it for another salad, to dip summer rolls, or simply to serve with sautรฉed vegetables.

Keywords: lettuce-free, salad, peanut sauce, cuisine vivante

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Une salade rafraรฎchissante de concombre, pois mange-tout et avocat avec sauce au beurre d’arachides รฉclatante

Une salade sans laitue, comme on les aime, qui sera parfaite pour les pique-nique, les repas en famille, ou tout simplement pour vous gรขter. Essayez-la!

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 portion 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1/2 concombre, en dรฉs
  • 2 tasses de pois mange-tout, parรฉs et hachรฉs
  • 1 avocat, pelรฉ, sans le noyau, en dรฉs
  • La chair d’un demi jeune coconut frais, coupรฉe en laniรจres (optionnel)
  • 1/4 tasse de sauce tamari ou soya
  • 1/4 tasse d’huile de sรฉsame grillรฉ
  • 1/4 tasse d’huile d’olive
  • 1/4 tasse de beurre d’arachides naturel
  • 1/4 tasse de jus de lime frais
  • 1 c. ร  soupe de gingembre frais, hachรฉ
  • 1 date, sans le noyau
  • 1/2 c. ร  thรฉ de pรขte chili-ail (de type sambal oelek)
  • 1/4 c. ร  thรฉ de sel de mer
  • Garnitures: coriandre fraรฎche et basilic Thaรฏ (optionnel)

Instructions

Dรฉposer le concombre, les pois mange-tout, l’avocat, et la chair de coconut dans un bol ร  mรฉlanger.

Placer le reste des ingrรฉdients dans un mรฉlangeur haute vitesse jusqu’ร  l’obtention d’un mรฉlange onctueux. Verser de la sauce sur la salade et bien mรฉlanger. Garnir de coriandre et de basilic Thaรฏ frais, si disponible.

Notes

Il vous restera de la sauce au beurre d’arachides. Conservez-la au rรฉfrigรฉrateur pour une prochaine salade, pour accompagner des rouleaux printaniers, ou tout simplement pour accompagner des lรฉgumes sautรฉs.

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Broccolette Salad with Maple-Dijon Vinaigrette

Broccolette Salad with Maple-Dijon Vinaigrette
Broccolette Salad with Maple-Dijon Vinaigrette

This Broccolette Salad with Maple-Dijon Vinaigrette is packed with nutrients, and it’s simply gorgeous. I like salads that don’t have lettuce, and this is becoming one of out favorites. You can use regular broccoli for this, or even kale. Let your imagination take you! For other lettuce-free salads, check out this Cooling Cucumber, Snap Peas and Avocado Salad with a Zesty Raw Peanut Sauce and the famous Livity Mango Salad.

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Broccolette Salad with Maple-Dijon Vinaigrette

  • Author: livitygardens
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 24 servings 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 lb broccolette, trimmed, stems finely chopped and heads roughly chopped
  • 1/2 cup raw almonds, soaked and chopped
  • 1/2 cup shallots, minced
  • 1/3 cup dates, pitted and chopped
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • Sea salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, place the broccolette, the almonds, the shallots, and the dates.

In a small bowl, whisk the oil, apple cider vinegar, the Dijon mustard, the maple syrup, the garlic, and the salt and pepper. Add the vinaigrette to the large bowl and mix well. Enjoy!

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Salade de broccolette avec vinaigrette รฉrable et Dijon

Cette salade de brocolette est tout simplement divine. J’adore les salades sans laitue, et celle-ci est maintenant une de mes prรฉfรฉrรฉes. Vous pouvez utiliser du brocoli, ou mรชme de la kale. Laissez-vous inspirer!

  • Author: livitygardens
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 2 ร  4 portions 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 lb de brocolette, parรฉe, les queues hachรฉes finement, les tรชtes grossiรจrement hachรฉes
  • 1/2 tasse d’amandes crues, trempรฉes et hachรฉes
  • 1/2 tasse d’รฉchalotes franรงaises, รฉmincรฉes
  • 1/3 tasse de dates, sans le noyau, hachรฉes
  • 1/4 tasse d’huile d’olive
  • 3 c. ร  soupe de vinaigre de cidre de pommeย 
  • 1 c. ร  ย soupe de moutarde de Dijon
  • 1 c. ร  soupe de sirop d’รฉrable
  • 2 gousses d’ail, รฉmincรฉes
  • Sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt

Instructions

Dans un grand bol, placer la brocolette, les amandes, les รฉchalotes, et les dates.

Dans un petit bol, fouetter l’huile, le vinaigre de cidre, la moutarde de Dijon, le sirop d’รฉrable, l’ail, le sel et le poivre. Ajouter au grand bol et bien mรฉlanger. Bon appรฉtit!

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Pickled Red Cabbage

Pickled Red Cabbage
Pickled Red Cabbage

I love this Pickled Red Cabbage. It is an epic addition to my Cauliflower and Walnut Tacos. But you will find yourself adding it to bowls, salads, and as a condiment for jackfruit sliders and plant-based burgers. This pickled cabbage recipe is easy and quick to put together, and it can add a pop of color and crunch to many meals.

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Pickled Red Cabbage

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 cup white or apple cider vinegar
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 cups red cabbage, sliced thin
  • 1/2 red onion, sliced thin
  • 1 clove garlic, left whole

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, dissolve the sugar into the boiling water. Add the vinegar, the cabbage, the onion and the clove of garlic. Mix well and let macerate. Store in the fridge, covered. Bon appรฉtit!

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Chou rouge marinรฉ

Cette recette de chou rouge est excellente comme accompagnement pour les tacos au chou-fleur et noix. Elle est aussi parfaite comme addition ร  des burgers de jackfruit et comme garniture sur un bol composรฉ santรฉ.

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 6 portions 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 tasse d’eau bouillante
  • 1 tasse de vinaigre blanc ou de cidre
  • 1/3 tasse de sucre brun
  • 2 tasses de chou rouge, tranchรฉ mince
  • 1/2 oignon rouge, tranchรฉ mince
  • 1 gousse d’ail entiรจre

Instructions

Dans un grand bol, dissoudre le sucre dans l’eau bouillante. Ajouter le vinaigre, le chou, l’oignon et la gousse d’ail. Laisser reposer. Conserver au rรฉfrigรฉrateur, couvert. Bon appรฉtit!

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Peach and Cardamom Smoothie

Peach and Cardamom Smoothie
Peach and Cardamom Smoothie

I owe this Peach and Cardamom Smoothie recipe to my dear husband. We tasted something similar at Elements, the restaurant of The Sanctuary, a quaint resort nestled at the foot of Camelback Mountain, in Phoenix, Arizona. We changed it up over time and now it’s a completely different thing, but it’s even better! This will give you a nice big portion, that could easily be split in half. But if it becomes part of your breakfast, just go ahead and drink it all!

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Peach and Cardamom Smoothie

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

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  • 1 1/2 cup frozen peaches
  • 1/2 banana
  • 1 cup coconut water
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 1 tablespoon almond butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 2 tablespoons hemp seeds

Instructions

Put all ingredients in a high-speed blender and blend until smooth. Bon appรฉtit!

Keywords: peach, smoothie

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Smoothie ร  la pรชche et ร  la cardamome

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

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  • 1 1/2 tasse de pรชches congelรฉes
  • 1/2 banane
  • 1 tasse d’eau de coconut
  • 2 c. ร  soupe d’huile de coconut
  • 1 c. ร  soupe de beurre d’amandes
  • 1/2 c. ร  thรฉ de cardamome moulue
  • 2 c. ร  soupe de graines de chanvre

Instructions

Mettre tous les ingrรฉdients dans un mรฉlangeur haute vitesse et mรฉlanger jusqu’ร  l’obtention d’une consistance onctueuse. Bon appรฉtit!

Keywords: pรชche, smoothie

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Zucchini Noodles with Avocado and Mint Sauce

Zucchini Noodles with Avocado and Mint Sauce
Zucchini Noodles with Avocado and Mint Sauce

The toasted pistachios in this Zucchini Noodles with Avocado and Mint Sauce add a nice crunchiness to the zucchini, and the avocado makes it so creamy, itโ€™s almost a dream. Just make sure to prepare the avocado sauce close to serving time, to avoid it turning brown. You can, however, prepare your zucchinis ahead of time, and keep them refrigerated.

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Zucchini Noodles with Avocado and Mint Sauce

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 24 servings 1x

Ingredients

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  • 3 large zucchinis, in noodles or in thin juliennes
  • 2 large avocados, peeled and pitted
  • 2 tablespoons shallots, minced
  • 2 tablespoons fresh mint, minced
  • Juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon (to taste)
  • 1 cup green peas, fresh or frozen
  • 1/3 cup pistachios, toasted
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • Fresh mint, to serve

Instructions

In a medium mixing bowl, mash the avocados with a fork. Add the shallots, mint, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix with the spiralized or julienned zucchinis. Add the peas and stir delicately. Serve into shallow bowls and garnish with pistachios and fresh mint. Bon appรฉtit!

Keywords: zucchini, avocado, mint

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Nouilles de zucchini avec sauce avocat et menthe

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 2 ร  4 portions 1x

Ingredients

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  • 3 gros zucchinis, en nouilles ou en minces juliennes
  • 2 gros avocats, pelรฉes, sans le noyau
  • 2 c. ร  soupe d’รฉchalotes franรงaises, รฉmincรฉes
  • 2 c. ร  soupe de menthe fraรฎche, รฉmincรฉe
  • Jus de 1/2 ร  1 citron (au goรปt)
  • 1 tasse de pois verts, frais ou surgelรฉs
  • 1/3 tasse de pistaches, rรดtis
  • Sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt
  • Garniture: menthe fraรฎche

Instructions

ร‰craser les avocats avec une fourchette dans un bol moyen. Ajouter l’รฉchalote, la menthe, le jus de citron, et le sel de mer et le poivre. Ajouter les nouilles de zucchini et les pois verts, et mรฉlanger dรฉlicatement. Servir garni de pistaches rรดtis et de menthe fraรฎche. Bon appรฉtit!

Keywords: zucchini, avocat, menthe

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