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Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

Raw root vegetable bowls with zesty orange vinaigrette are packed with enough nutrition to dry your John Cusack movie-induced tears.

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

Spring is springing leaks all up in the mother nature hood, which just makes me want to put raw vegetables in a bowl and eat them all up.

Spring is a raw, tumescent time. All the bunny rabbits know it.

What is going on with these bowls?

I shredded up a bunch of root vegetables and lay them down on top of more roots. I added a crazy.zesty.cool dressing along with some garbanzo goodies, wiley walnuts, and dried up cran crans. – – – > The second you start nicknaming foods, you have been food blogging for too long. Just.keep.going.

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

You’ve noticed “bowls” are a thing right now. One of the greatest parts about bowling it is you can bowl like no one is watching. Translation: bowls are versatile. Make them your own. For this recipe, you can serve the roots over spring greens or cooked rice, or you can do as I did and eat roots on top of roots on top of roots on top of…

Have you ever seen kohlrabi? Here’s what it looks like:

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

Raw food. It’s very nutritious. I made these raw root vegetable bowls immediately following an active day and immediately prior to grabbing the down comforter off my bed, forming myself into a tightly-curled ball on the couch, and marathon watching John Cusack movies whilst drinking wine and eating roots all night long. Don’t pretend like you haven’t done this. Everyone has done this, which is precisely why Microsoft Word knows John Cusack well enough to correct my incorrect spellings of his name.

A note to raw food fanatics: the chickpeas I used in this bowl are technically not raw. You may use raw chickpeas by sprouting them. < – – – this is me avoiding any raw backlash. Raw backlash is a bitch. Now I’m just confusing myself.

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

Wanna know what I did 2.7 seconds after I snapped these photos? I dumped everything into a huge bowl and mixed it all together. Which brings me to my last point. This recipe can double as root vegetable slaw. I repeat: coleslaw. Simply mix everything (excluding the chickpeas, but including all of the dressing) together in a bowl, and you have yourself a mighty good raw slaw. Which you can put on wiener schnitzel. Just throwing ideas out into the ether.

Bowl until you can’t raw bowl no more.

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing

Raw Root Bowls with Zesty Orange Dressing is a unique, cleansing lunch or dinner
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
3 Servings

Ingredients

For the bowls

  • 2 large red beets, peeled and shredded
  • 1 large kohlrabi root, peeled and shredded
  • 2 large carrots, peeled and shredded
  • 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
  • 1 cup raw walnuts
  • ½ cup dried cranberries
  • ¼ red onion, sliced

For the zesty orange dressing:

Optional add-ins

Instructions

  • In a bowl, whisk together the ingredients for the zesty orange dressing and set aside.
  • Add desired amounts of each of the ingredients to a bowl and pour desired amount of dressing on top. Note that you can serve these bowls over a bed of spring greens or cooked rice, and can also add a variety of optional add-ins, such as chickpeas, avocado, and/or hard-boiled egg.

Notes

In order to make this into root vegetable slaw, simply combine all of the ingredients (excluding the optional add-ins) into a large bowl. Pour the zesty orange dressing on top, and mix together until well-combined. You can use this slaw on sandwiches, in salads, on top of fish or poultry, or serve as a side dish.

Nutrition

Serving: 1grams
Course: Lifestyle
Cuisine: American
Keyword: dairy free, easy healthy recipes, gluten free, gluten free recipes, healthy meals, healthy recipes, paleo recipes
Servings: 3 Servings
Author: Julia

Recipe Rating




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Francesca

Tuesday 18th of March 2014

This looks awesome. I especially have my eye on that red onion. and is it just me, or does kohlrabi look like the brain bad guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? :)

Monet

Monday 17th of March 2014

I don't know if I've ever seen such a lovely bowl of raw goodness! This looks delicious!

Abby

Monday 17th of March 2014

This would be #1 on Cusack's top 10 foods he loves, :) I need more bowls in my life and kohlrabi dang how have I never tried that! Looks awesome lady!

Allison @ Clean Wellness

Monday 17th of March 2014

Okay, I've never tried kohlrabi -I'm so embarrassed! I'm sooo into bowls right now! I need to give this a try. The dressing sounds amazing. I like the addition of the coconut milk.

And John Cusack is the best. I especially love him in John Hughes movies!

Love your recipes and beautiful photographs :)

Joanne

Sunday 16th of March 2014

I haven't EVER raw bowled!! At least not with anything as rad as this. Yes, I just said rad. The '70's needs it's words back.

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