Food demo #1 at Finca de Vida

At our stay at Finca de Vida we wanted to get inspiration for healthy cooking and booked two raw food demos with Itzel and Stephan. Demo # 1 was a raw bread, salad and banana ice cream!

Raw bread sandwich (needs a dehydrator)
Example ingredients to make raw bread:
1 cup flax seeds (make powder in ex. Vitamix)
1 cup chia seeds (make powder)
1 cup almonds (make powder)
1 cup big oats (make powder or keep them whole)
1/2 cup nutritional yeast
Mix everything in a bowl

4 large tomatoes (the tomatoes in Costa rica are two to three times the size of tomatoes in Norway) - cut the tomatoes in pieces and put in blender
3-4 celery sticks - cut in pieces and put in blender
4 avocadoes (if you want to make a sweet bread, you can replace the avocado with banana) - put in blender
20 cloves of garlic - put in blender
A large handful of fresh rosemary - put in blender
A small handful of fresh oregano - put in blender
1 tablespoon salt (maybe you want to use less!) - put in blender
Mix everything in a blender/Vitamix

Pour the liquid mix little by little in the bowl with the dry and mix well. If you have too much of the liquid, save it to make sandwich spread!
Spread the dough in a 0,5 cm thick layer on your dehydrator sheets/plates. Let it dry over night.
Divide into sandwich size pieces.

Sandwich spread
Use the liquid rests from making the bread (if you have any)
Add 1 avocado
Mustard seeds
Salt
Juice from 1/2 lime
Put everything in the blender and mix.


Sandwich filling
Start with a piece of bread and add the avocado spread. Add:
Thin slices of tomatoes
Thin slices of red beets
Thin slices of zucchini
Thin slices of apple
Thin slices of cucumber
Thin sticks of red bell pepper
Grated carrot
Fresh dill, parsley or coriander
A piece of lettuce on top, or if you want more bread, another slice of bread (we liked it best with only lettuce on top!)

Salad

1 to 1 1/2 mango (diced in small pieces)

4 tomatoes (diced in small pieces)

onion (minced)

coriander (minced)

lime juice

you can also add more greens (lettuce, spinach, kale) in tiny pieces

Tip:

Use a small bowl to place the salad on the plate

Slice a red beet in small sticks and use for decoration

Banana ice cream!

7 frozen bananas (divide in 2-3 pieces and put in blender)

1 tsp vanilla extract or seed from a vanilla "stick"

2 tsp cinnamon

Mix everything in the blender

Add to serving bowls.

Strawberry sauce

1 bowl strawberries

2 1/2 tbs honey

Mix in blender

Decorate the ice cream with the sauce

Use diced mango, blueberries ++ as decoration

We loved it, and Maria and Aurora made banana ice cream for the Christmas pot luck :)

- Line