| If you're looking for a healthy, great, easy raw food | | | | In a food processor pulse all of the ingredients until the |
| appetizer or snack, one of the best raw food recipes | | | | garlic is minced well. Wash the organic mushrooms, |
| I've made is for mushrooms stuffed with pesto. You | | | | brushing off any dirt and de-stem (save stems for |
| don't have to be a vegan or raw food enthusiast like | | | | other use.) Place the mushrooms upside down with |
| me to enjoy these pesto mushrooms. I've served | | | | bottoms up. Stuff each mushroom with about one |
| them many times as a snack for holidays, events or | | | | tablespoon of pesto. Place on a teflex sheet or |
| just when having company over. They're always | | | | dehydrator tray and dehydrate for about 1-2 hours at |
| raved about and so simple to make - a truly easy. free | | | | about 95 degrees. Best served warm but good cold |
| raw food recipe. | | | | also. |
| If you have a favorite pesto recipe that you use now, | | | | I always make these in a dehydrator because it |
| you can try stuffing mushrooms with it also. This is also | | | | preserves the enzymes and phytonutrients due to the |
| a great recipe because if you make pesto regularly, | | | | low heat. If you don't have a dehydrator you can try to |
| you may find you always have some left over. This | | | | make these in an oven at the lowest temperature for |
| pesto mushroom recipe will easily take care of any | | | | a short period of time. Try 10 to 15 minutes or so. Now |
| extra pesto on hand or just sitting in the refrigerator. | | | | I haven't tried it with an oven so you would have to |
| This is also a great recipe to take to potlucks, raw | | | | experiment, but you want to preserve the healthy |
| food potlucks, food events or even for celiac disease | | | | benefits of these pesto mushrooms by using little heat. |
| meetings or events because they are gluten-free. | | | | So give my mushrooms stuffed with pesto a try and |
| These pesto mushrooms are good served warm or | | | | see how they're truly a hit with your family, friends or |
| cold. | | | | potlucks or other events. You will get raves. Of course |
| Helen's Best Mushroom Stuffed Pesto - the | | | | there are many recipes you can make using raw |
| ingredients: 4 cups organic basil with leaves and stems | | | | foods that are easy, healthy and gluten-free. If you're |
| (or use Trader Joe's whole container of organic basil), 1 | | | | new to raw foods why not give this free raw food |
| 4 cup organic parsley, 1 cup pine nuts, 1/3 cup olive oil, | | | | recipe and other raw recipes a try and see for |
| 3 cloves of garlic, and 1 1/2 tsp. sea salt or Celtic salt | | | | yourself why people who eat raw foods are so |
| and organic crimini mushrooms. | | | | healthy. |