How to Enjoy Salt-Free Raw Food Recipes

So you want to go raw and do it the right way. You know that you need to focus on fruit, but you’ve also learned that savory meals full of greens are important too. You also know that these mineral-rich veggies should be eaten without any salt.

Now here’s the big problem. You love salt and you hate greens! In fact, the ONLY time you’ll eat a salad is when it’s drenched in salt!

To make things even worse, all the tasty savory raw food recipes out there are unhealthy and full of salt!

What to do?

All you need is to learn how to enjoy salt-free raw food recipes. And I’ve got 3 tips for you today that will help you do just that.

Tip #1: Stop Eating Salt

You can’t enjoy the simple, subtle flavors of fresh fruits and vegetables if you are still consuming salt.

Any salt at all – be it table salt, sea salt, or even salty condiments like Bragg’s Liquid Aminos and Nama Shoyu – irritates your taste buds and dulls them to the truly delicious, so-not-bland taste of wholesome produce.

But once you give salt up for good, you’ll be able to taste these flavors completely in just a few short weeks.

Tip #2: Start Eating Ripe Foods

If your fruits and veggies taste incredibly bland and/or unappetizing, you’re likely eating them unripe. While this isn’t typically an issue with vegetable matter like greens, carrots, and the like that are ready to eat when you purchase them, it is an issue with fruit.

Take bananas, for instance. Most people are taught that bananas are best when they are yellow and starchy, but this is not when they are fully ripe.

Bananas are ripe when they are completely yellow and covered in brown spots. They should be soft, sweet, and not at all starchy tasting.

The tomato (yes, it’s a fruit) is a perfect example since it’s so commonly used in savory raw dishes. Most people eat tomatoes when they are hard, dry, and acidic. This is also wrong.

Tomatoes should be sweet, slightly acidic (depending upon the cultivar) and soft to slightly firm. Even so-called canning tomatoes are pretty darned delicious when ripened properly!

If you want to get the most flavor (and nutrition, too!) out of your savory raw recipes, you have to start with fresh produce that is ripe and tasty.

Tip #3: Follow the Four Food Flavors

All great chefs know that in order to create delicious dishes, four flavor components must be represented: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter.

And raw recipes are no different. Missing out on even one of these flavors could make your dish taste off, bland, or incomplete.

Luckily, it’s easy to hit all four of these flavor notes using all raw and healthy ingredients. For instance, mangoes and dates are sweet, celery and tomatoes are salty, lemon juice and oranges are sour, and spinach and cilantro are bitter.

One of my most favorite savory dishes is a salad made of romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and pistachios. While this may sound rather bland and boring without any salt and spices, it’s actually extremely delicious.

That’s because all four flavors are represented:

Sweet

• cherry tomatoes

Salty

• romaine lettuce
• cherry tomatoes

Sour

• cherry tomatoes

Bitter

• cucumber peel
• pistachios

Yep, it’s that simple.

Get in That Kitchen…

…and start “cooking” up some healthy and tasty raw food dishes!

Start with your favorite perfectly ripe raw ingredients, follow the four food flavors and you’ll be amazed at what tasty salt-free savory fare you can create.

Oh, and one bonus tip before I go…

Don’t forget about fat! Fatty raw foods like avocados, nuts and seeds are excellent for adding more flavor AND texture to your savory dishes.

But remember, a little fat goes a long way.

Go raw, stick it to salt, and be fit,

Swayze

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