Raw Cauliflower "Cous Cous" Salad and Ezekiel 47:12

If you're trying to cut back on calories and get more veggies in your diet, here is a great, simple, and delicious recipe while holding the grains. Did you know you can actually imitate the texture of rice and couscous by preparing cauliflower with a high-powered blender in just a few seconds? Most people don't eat enough broccoli, much less cauliflower, but these foods fight cancer! There are many studies linking cauliflower and cruciferous vegetables to preventing bladder, breast, colon, prostate, and ovarian cancers. Steaming or boiling cauliflower, which is the most common way of preparing it, can destroy most of its precious phyto-nutrients, specifically sulforaphane. The benefit of pulverizing raw cauliflower in the blender is that this process counts as "chopping," which is how sulforaphane is born! This is the phyto-nutrient known to fight cancer. So change it up and get more raw with this delicious recipe!

Health benefits of eating more cauliflower:

♥ High in vitamin C

♥ High in B vitamins

♥ High in fiber

♥ High in folate

♥ Builds the immune system

♥ Very low calorie

♥ Super rich in antioxidants

♥ Anti-inflammation

♥ Prevents and fights cancer

♥ Supports digestion

♥ Detoxifies the body

Ingredients

• 1 head of organic cauliflower

• 2-3 rainbow radishes, minced

• 2-3 shredded carrots

• 1 small green bell pepper, minced

• 1/2 cup purple cabbage, chopped

• 1/2 cup or more minced flat-leafed parsley (forgot to add it in mine)

• 2-3 tablespoons of our Raw Vegan Mayo or Vegenaise

• 2 tablespoons raw sunflower seeds

• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast

• 1 lemon, juiced

• 1 teaspoon Himalayan pink salt

• dash or 2 of pepper

  
  

Instructions

1. Add one fully chopped cauliflower into a high-powered blender and pulverize until shredded. It literally will look like couscous or rice.

2. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients.

Depending on how big your cauliflower was, this recipe makes about 6-8 servings. It can stay fresh stored in the refrigerator for about 2 days. Feel free to add any other spices or ingredients you wish, such as cucumbers, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, etc.

Can you eat cauliflower leaves?

Many people will throw out the cauliflower leaves, but did you know that they are completely edible and nutritious? You can use the outer green leaves just as you would any other greens, such as kale and broccoli leaves. The larger leaves have ribs and can be chewy, but the smaller and tender cauliflower leaves are great in salads!

Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing. ~Ezekiel 47:12

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. My son (when he was a toddler) loved it!

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Written by Lupita Ronquillo for Vegan Health and Yoga