Mac and Cheese - Raw Vegan Pasta
Mac and cheese is a famous international pasta recipe originating from the 14th century from Italy and England. This dish consists of pasta called macaroni and a sauce made with butter and cheese. Although the Italian word maccheroni is a generic name for various types of pasta, the English word macaroni means short tubular pasta.Learn how to make raw vegan mac and cheese pasta with this recipe on the Health Glows website.
Equipment
- reverse osmosis water filter
- knife
- chopping board
- vegetable peeler
- freezer bags
- freezer
- Blender
- ear muffs
- dehydrator
- vegetable sheet slicer
- mortar and pestle
- sieve
Ingredients
Macaroni
- 2 lbs zucchinis
Butter
- 1 cob corn
Cheese
- 0.7 oz sesame seeds raw. hulled
- 0.7 oz sunflower seeds raw, hulled
- 0.7 oz almonds raw, shelled
- 1 tsp dried celery
Instructions
Sweet Corn - Freezing
- Freeze some fresh sweet corn one day in advance.Clean the corn.It is extremely important that the water in which we wash food is clean and free of all the harmful impurities that are typically found in tap water, such as chlorine, fluoride, arsenic, sulfates, pesticides, etc. I use a reverse osmosis water filter in my kitchen. With this reverse osmosis water filter, you can have clean water running out from your kitchen tap. Order your water filter HERE.Place the corn cobs in a freezer bag. Put the corns in the freezer.
Sunflower Seeds and Almonds - Soaking
- Also one day in advance, measure out 0.7 oz / 20 g of raw sunflower seeds and 0.7. g / 20 g of raw almonds. Soak the sunflower seeds and almond in clean water for about 12 hours.Nuts and seeds contain anti-nutrients such as phytic acid. These substances bind to the nutrients inside the nuts and seeds, preventing their absorption in the body. As anti-nutrients dissolve in water, soaking nuts and seeds enhances their digestibility and bio-availability of their nutrients.
Sunflower Seeds - Soaking
- The same day before, measure 0.7 oz of hulled raw sunflower seeds.Soak them in clean water for about 8 hours. The seeds generally contain phytic acid which is an anti-nutrient. Phytic acid is soluble in water, so it is removed by soaking the seeds.
Sweet Corn - Thawing
- The next day, take the corn out of the freezer. First, put the corn in the fridge for a couple of hours, then at room temperature to completely thaw and soften.
Sunflower Seeds and Almonds - Rinsing, Peeling, Marinating
- Using a strainer, rinse the soaked sunflower seeds in clean water.Transfer the washed sunflower seeds into a glass.Also, using a strainer, rinse the soaked almonds in clean water. For now, leave the washed almonds in the colander.Put on hygienic gloves and peel the almonds. Just by lightly pressing your fingers on the surface of each almond individually, the skin of the almond should come off easily.The brown skin of almonds contains anti-nutrients such as tannins and phytic acid. Also, it is hard and difficult to digest. This is why it is better to remove it.Cut the lemon in half.Juice one half of the lemon over the sunflower seeds, and juice the other half of the lemon over the almonds. Let the sunflower seeds and almonds sit in the lemon juice while you make the macaroni.
Zucchinis - Macaroni
- Wash the zucchinis in clean water.Peel the zucchinis.Using a veggie sheet slicer, make the zucchini sheets.You can order this practical and very useful kitchen tool HERE.Save the zucchini ends because we will use it in making the macaroni.Place the zucchini sheets one over the other, then chop them all together to the macaroni size.Transfer the macaroni to a bowl.Cut off the very ends of the zucchini leftovers, and set them aside for the sauce.Chop the very middles of each remaining zucchini to the macaroni size.Put all the macaroni in a bowl.
Sesame Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Almonds - Cheese in the Mortar
- Rinse the sunflower seeds in clean water.Rinse the almonds in clean water.So, remove the lemon juice, which we don't need for this recipe, but it served to give the sunflower seeds and almonds a slightly acid flavour.Measure out 0.7 oz / 20 g of sesame seeds. We use sesame seeds to make our famous Parmiggiano-Reggiano, which we call sesameggiano.Grind the sesame seeds in the mortar.Put aside 1 teaspoon of crushed sesame seeds (sesameggiano).Chop half of the almonds.Add the half of the sunflower seeds and chopper almonds to the mortar over the sesame seeds.Pour clean water into a spray bottle, then spray the ingredients in the mortar while grinding them with the pestle. The reason why this technique is so practical is that you can dose the water little by little as you need until you get a homogeneous white mixture as you can see in the video.
Sweet Corn - Butter
- Separate the softened corn kernels from the cob.Put the corn kernels in the blender. We use softened and blended corn as a healthy substitute for butter.Add the remaining half of the almonds and sunflower seeds to the blender.Add the remaining zucchini ends to the blender.Add one teaspoon of dried celery to the blender.Celery is a vegetable that is rich sodium, a salty-taste mineral. Thus we use dried celery as a healthy salt substitute.Before using the blender, protect your hearing with ear muffs. Noise accumulatively and irreversibly damages the cells of the inner ear. Because of this, it is very important to protect the inner ear from noise. Order quality ear muffs HERE.Blend all the ingredients into a yellow creamy sauce.Pour the sauce into the bowl over the macaronis.Mix everything together.
Warming
- Transfer the macaronis in the sauce to a casserole dish.Pour the mock cheese from the mortar over the macaronis.Pour the remaining sesameggiano that you left aside over the macaronis.Put your beautiful macaroni and cheese in the dehydrator and dehydrate them for about an hour at 117 F / 47 C.
Serving
- Pour the pomegranate wine over these vegetables.Mix everything well.
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