This is the first recipe in a series I’m doing to guide you through putting together a raw dinner party at home.
I love making friends raw food. It’s such an fantastic feeling to see everyone’s delight at how beautiful raw food can be.
This is a simplified version of the first course at our recent Tiny Leaf Supper Club, and it was many people’s favourite. Your dinner party at home doesn’t have to be as fancy as a supper club though, which is why I wanted to post these recipes, as a guide to a simple, but well planned social gathering.
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Lychee Ceviche with Smoked Cashew Cheese
This is one of the recipe from our Weekday Raw course.
Servings6 Yields 2 cups ceviche
Nutrition (For one serving)
Calories: 324kcalCarbohydrates: 23gProtein: 10gFat: 24gSaturated Fat: 4gSodium: 302mgPotassium: 547mgFiber: 5gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 131IUVitamin C: 28mgCalcium: 23mgIron: 3mg
Ingredients
Lychee ceviche
- 1 cup lychee meat 6 lychees = ¼ cup
- 1 tsp lime juice
- 1 tsp coriander cilantro, chopped
- 1 tsp chives or green onions, minced
- 1/4 cup cucumber diced small
- 1/2 tsp ginger grated on a Microplane
- 1 tbsp red onion diced small
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 avocado diced
Smoked cashew cheese
- 2 cups cashew nuts soaked 8 hours
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp probiotic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp lime juice
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
Instructions
Lychee ceviche
- Mix all ingredients except avocado in a bowl.
- As you can see from the pictures, I used rambutan instead of lychee, because despite searching high and low, I couldn’t find lychees.
Smoked cashew cheese
- Blend cashew nuts with water and probiotic powder and leave covered in a warm place overnight to culture.
- You’ll know it’s ready when you put a spoon through it and see small air bubbles that dissolve. Transfer to a food processor and add in salt, lime juice, nutritional yeast, onion powder, garlic powder and smoked paprika.
- Mix this in the food processor for about 30 seconds, so everything is combined.I like to make this at least a couple of days before I need it, so I can firm it up a little in the fridge.
To serve
- Smear the cashew cheese on the plate.
- Add the lychee ceviche on top with the diced avocado.
Notes
You can also add some shards of crackers to serve. If you want to make your own, you could use these. It’s perfetly fine to buy some crackers for this too. You may be able to get raw crackers in a store near you. If not, just get the best crackers you can that are as natural as possible.
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Simply delicious!Thank you!
Can’t wait to try this – love Lychees!!! Just wanted to comment though, just clicked through to the Flax Crackers from the link suggesting crackers above and had totally forgotten about the Pine Nut Cheese Spread and the Tomato Sauce which I made ages ago when I first discovered the site. There are so many recipes here and everything I have tried has been just superb. The only difficulty I have is deciding what to make next!! Happy days indeed… 🙂
That’s a great problem! 🙂 Thanks, Linda.
Russell
I have the Weekday Raw course already. Recently I made the Lychee Ceviche for a potluck. When I told the girls what I was bringing, there where those more weird food from Lorri comment. I looked up to see those same ladies scrapping the bowl.
Great recipe
Lorri
Love that!
Yum …yum…yum..all I can say is I am over the moon with excitement to see your scrumptious dish! Lychee will be available here very soon…I enjoy them so much on their own, but now I will have to try my hand and do my best to recreate this dish! Truly off the chain…THANK YOU SO MUCH! BTW I know you used Rambutan, which I am not familiar with , love how you displayed them showing them half peeled like they are wearing little swim caps…but I am going to use Lychee 🙂 You are truly THE BEST EVER! Thank you!
Haha, there’s something about those half peeled rambutan isn’t there 🙂
Thank you for sharing your awesome recipes.
I can try some when I am not working seven days a week.
Thank you very much !
The photos are really inspiring thank you 🙂
Hi Russell
Just to let you know the red hairy fruit is not lychee
it is called RAMBUTAN in Malaysia and grown mainly
in south east asia.
The recipe looks good.
Hey Kim, if you have a look in the text, I do mention that I had to use Rambutan instead of lychee, because they were unavailable anywhere 🙂
Chef! You ARE by far THE best. I love your creations and passion 🙂
This looks really good. I’m eager to try it out. Do you have a suggestion about substitutions for the Lychee?
I actually used Rambutan as a substitution for lychee.
Do you have a suggestion for a fruit that is more common/easily available?
You could use grapes.
Lol
Looks delicious. I always love your platings!
Where do I purchase Probiotic Powder and how do I judge a good quality product? Thanks!
Is it possible to make this cheese in a Vitamix blender rather than a processor?
Thanks!!!
I buy it from Amazon. Even the cheaper ones seem to work fine, so I just look for one that is powder in a jar, rather than capsules.
Thanks, Russel!
Hi Russell, Is it OK to use a dehydrator to set the cheese as you mentioned ” a warm spot” or would this take out too much moisture? Many thanks
On top of the dehydrator is perfect, but not inside.
Thanks Russell, can’t wait to try the smoked cashew cheese! Our Lychee season has finished now so will have to wait until Christmas to try the Lychee recipe.
exquisite, as always! Thank you 🙂
You are so generous with your recipes. Thanks so much! Diana
Russell as always you are fabulous in sharing your recipes. The pictures are spectacular too ! 🙂