Hey guys, this is heather from healthyveganrecipes.net. Today, I’m going to show you my avocado
salad dressing recipe - were going to make a salad with an avocado dressing, which is
something that if you haven’t tried it before it is phenomenal. I’ve been thinking about
showing this to you for a long time now and for some reason I’ve haven’t yet.
So today is the day and you can get this avocado salad dressing recipe over on the website
healthyveganrecipe.net. In the video I’ll show you exactly how to make it. Now today’s
video goes along with the nutrition blog over healthyeatingstartshere.com. I’ve been talking
about detoxes this month and cleanse, which don’t have to be extreme.
They can actually be really simple – simple diets that could eat for a long period of
time, but the idea behind using them as a cleanse is that if you really simplify your
diet, it will allow your body to process things that younormally might have trouble with.
So one of the best ways is to simplify and clean up your diet is to go with just whole
foods, nothing process. One of the things that often trip us of as vegan is salad dressing
and that often trip up anybody no matter whom.
Because salad dressing actually have quite a lot of salt and this sometimes have sugar,
they often have preservatives and chemicals and things like this that interfere with your
body’s normal processes. So making your own salad dressing is fantastic and then at
if go one step for another in making your own salad dressing from whole foods ingredients,
it even better – I’m going to show you that today.
And I’m going to start with a beet - cause their really nice to start this week. So,
I’m going to do my beet raw because – its lunch time for me actually and I like beet
raw occasionally and really like to wait for it to cook. So you can either do it raw or
you can boil it to whatever cook-ness you like.
And I’m going to show you a tool that I’ve been separated from quite sometime now, but
recently unpacked since we moved - and that is my spiroslicer, so I show you how this
works. So I have my spiroslicer here, there are a lot of different types.
This one works vertically, which I like because I can go with the force of gravity, and basically
what happen is theirs its slicing blade and the shredding blade – don’t really know
what call that but it got a little teeth in it.
So what happens is as the beet goes through here or whatever vegetables you’re doing,
it cut slice that way and then it can slice that way. So that you can come up with little
noodles, and show you those when do it, and a lot of people having trouble with using
this.
There are couple tricks that I learned through trial and error, and online searching. One
of the first things you need to do is make sure that the cuts on either end are parallels
to each other. So, I’m cutting off the top of the beet and then I can see this line here,
I want to get as close as possible to that line on the other side of the beet.
So even though it’s a little bit off from where you might cut if you’re just cutting
off the end of the beet, you want to make sure it’s parallel to that and it doesn’t
have to be exact but the closer the better – see. And then you just have to peel this
beet.
So there you go, either use a peeler or if you’re really good you can just use your
knife. When you’re eating raw beet the key to be able to digest them is to cut them up
really finely. So you can either cut it off fine or you or use spiroslicer or whatever
method you enjoy.
You can also use the spiroslicer if you’re cooking your beet to make it easier to spiralize.
So what happens here is you turn the crate and that beet will go through. Sometimes you
really need a downward pressure.
And on the other end comes this very cool spirally noodles. Don’t get really long
I intend to chop this up when I’m putting this on salad, otherwise you put you’re
fork in and you get the endless noodles.
So there’s my beautiful spirallize beet so you almost stuff like hair in there. When
you spiralize you wined up the small section in the end that doesn’t get noodlelize – that
one I just cut out small as possible and put it in there. And I also got some kale chopped
up behind here – which I’m just going to massage with my hands to wilt it.
You could also use any kind of geranial like here, lettuce, spinach, sprain mixed, sprouts
- excellent. Whatever you go, massaging kale really soften that, makes it much more edible
than this one its rough, use a little bit of salt here that helps you soften but you
don’t need it.
And then once I get this massage, I’m also going to chop-up a tomato and add that in
there. You noticed that all of my ingredients are raw, I think raw are excellent way to
do a detox or cleanse, but I don’t think it’s necessary in order to cleanse, I think
the key here is that all of the foods that were using are whole foods.
If you want to cook this, that is also fine but just stick to whole foods and it will
help your body cleanse. The things that easier don’t get any interference from those process,
preservatives, chemicals, whatever they put in there. Just to good idea from get a break
from them for a while.
To get more info from detoxing, head over to my nutrition blog healthyeatingstartshere.com.
So I kept you guys little bit into suspense so far, we’ve got our salad put together,
every things good over there. And now it is time to get to get to that delicious avocado
dressing I promised you.