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Free Recipes from Raw Magic

In one of our last posts, we reviewed Raw Magic by UK based raw food author, advocate, superfoodist, entrepreneur, and mother Kate Magic. As we mentioned in our review, Kate has given us permission to give away three free recipes from her book to our readers!

We had you vote for your top recipes from a list of five we gave you to choose from. These recipes are an excellent way to get superfoods into your diet and to experiment with superfoods if you have yet to experience their fun and power.

And here are your winners!

1. Supersexy Curry
2. Broccoli Bonkers
3. Hi-cake

Enjoy your free raw superfood recipes!

Supersexy Curry

1 large avocado
3 small tomatoes
3 sticks celery
1/4 red onion
1 lemon, juiced
2 tbsp hulled hemp seeds
2 tsp curry powder
1 tbsp maca powder
1/4 tsp suma powder
1 cup cauliflower
1/2 red pepper
1 cup spinach
1 tbsp goji berries

Peel and pit the avocado, and put the flesh into the blender. Halve the tomatoes and chop the celery sticks into eighths, and put them in the blender too. Add the onion, lemon juice, hemp seeds and curry powder and blend into a thick puree. Add in the maca and suma and blend briefly (if you blend maca for too long it goes bitter). Remove the sauce from the blender and put in a bowl. Chop your cauliflower into small bite-sized pieces, and dice your pepper into pieces the same size. Stir the cauliflower, pepper, spinach and gojis into the sauce. Eat straight away.

Broccoli Bonkers

1 small head broccoli
1/4 red onion
2 tbsp spirulina
2 tbsp olive oil
2 lemons, juiced
1 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
1 tbsp tahini
1 tbsp Seagreens

Chop the broccoli into small pieces to fit into your blender. Put all the ingredients apart from the Seagreens into the blender together, and give it a good going until it’s creamy. If it’s too much like hard work for your blender, you can add a little water or some extra oil. Once it’s turning over and there are no lumps of broccoli left, stir in the Seagreens by hand. Keeps for a few days, or you can dehydrate leftovers and crumble them into croutons for salad.

Hi-cake

Cake:

2 cups cacao nibs
2 cups brazil nuts
2 1/2 cups lucuma
6 tbsp agave nectar
2/3 cup water

Icing:

2 avocados
1/3 cup raw chocolate powder
2 tbsp agave nectar
1/4 cup water

Decoration:

2 tbsp goji berries
2 tbsp dried cranberries

Grind up the nibs and nuts separately in a high power blender or coffee grinder. Transfer to a mixing bowl with the lucuma and agave. With your hands, mix the all the ingredients so you have an even powder. Add the water gradually, kneading the mixture into a ball with your hands. It should end up as a fairly thick dough-like consistency. Press into a springform cake tin, and leave in the fridge to set for a few hours.

To make the icing, put the avocado flesh in the blender along with the chocolate powder, agave and water. If you havenít got chocolate powder, you can substitute carob or mesquite. Blend until you have a thick cream. Once your cake is set, you can remove it from the cake tin, and spoon the icing evenly over the top and the sides. Decorate with dried goji berries and cranberries sprinkled over the top. Uneaten cake can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two weeks.

Once your cake is set, you can remove it from the cake tin and spoon the icing evenly over the top and the sides. Decorate with dried goji berries and cranberries sprinkled over the top. Uneaten cake can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two weeks (but only if no-one knows it’s there).

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If you like any of these recipes, you will love the rest of Kate’s recipes in her book Raw Magic. If you want more free recipes published here on RFRN, support Kate and other amazing raw chefs and authors by purchasing their invaluable books. Kate has made special arrangements for her books to be sold in the US with the help of Matt Monarch and his store, The Raw Food World. You can buy Kate’s books without having to pay for UK shipping if you shop here.

We love Kate’s energy and passion for superfoods and for this movement. Make sure to check out her sites here and here.

Kate has also recently published the much talked about and racy book Ecstatic Beings with Shazzie. Although it is not technically a “raw food book”, we are considering giving it a full review here on RFRN. What do you think?

~ Raw Food Right Now!
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