Raw Food Recipes: Creamy Cilantro Soup, Green Juice & Celery Salad

These spring cleanse recipes were contributed by Elaina Love who will be teaching a Raw Food Chef Certification program in Bali this coming May. Please visit her website to check out more about this amazing opportunity!

3 Green Alkaline Recipes to Help You Cleanse for Spring

By Elaina Love

Creamy Cilantro Soup

Makes 4 servings

• 1 zucchini, chopped
• 1 bunch cilantro, stems removed (2 cups)
• 1 red, yellow, or orange bell pepper
• 1/2 apple, chopped
• 1/2 cup water, plus additional to thin as needed
• 1 tablespoon Bragg Liquid Aminos or 2 teaspoons tamari
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, or to taste
• 1 teaspoon onion powder, optional
• dash cayenne pepper
• 1 avocado, chopped
• Optional: dulse flakes, diced bell pepper, fresh corn off the cob, sunflower greens, chopped romaine, to garnish

Place all ingredients except the avocado and optional garnishes in a blender and process until smooth. Add the avocado and blend. Serve immediately, with garnishes if desired, or store in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours.

Elaina’s Alkalizing Green Juice

Makes 6 cups, 1 full-day’s supply

• 2 large cucumbers, cut in quarters
• 1-2 heads celery
• 5 leaves dinosaur kale
• 1/4 bunch cilantro
• 1 lemon, juiced
• Optional: 1 apple with seeds

Juice all ingredients. Store in sealed glass jars, filled all the way. Alkalizing Green Juice will keep for two days if made in a slow-speed masticating juicer (Green Life, Omega 8002, or Samson) or 1 day if made in another juicer.

Celery Salad

Makes 3 cups
Inspired by Matt Samuelson

• 7 stalks celery, very thinly sliced on mandoline
• 1 ½ radishes, halved and very thinly sliced
• ½ granny smith apple, julienned very thinly
• ¼ small red onion, minced
• ¼ tsp dried sage
• ½ tsp minced rosemary
• ¼ tsp Himalayan salt
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 1 ½ Tbs olive oil
• pinch of kelp powder

Mix everything together and taste for salt and lemon flavors. Store in a glass container for 1 week.

Elaina Love has 13 years experience as a professional Raw Food Chef, Instructor and Lifestyle Counselor. Her unique style of creating extremely healthy,  delicious raw food cuisine has her highly sought after.

Join her on her Raw Chef Training Program in Bali May 4th – June 5th

She recently opened Pure Joy Culinary Academy in Patagonia, Arizona focusing on a low glycemic die, raw food. Elaina’s online store is PureJoyPlanet.com, and features certification courses, cleansing tele-courses, raw food recipe books, super foods and kitchen & health equipment.

She was the co-owner of a raw food Café in The San Francisco Bay area for 2 years and is the author of Elaina’s Pure Joy Kitchen recipe books 1 and 2,  she has several raw, vegan DVDs and is the creator of The Amazing Nut Bag