One of the most popular dishes, and one that I got asked for the recipe many times at our recent London Dinner Party, is the Tomato & Macadamia Mozzarella Linguine.
It’s a really simple dish that only takes 20 minutes (unless you’re making it for 30 people!) to make, and it is also great to take to work as it will keep in a lunch box really well. I’m particularly pleased with this recipe as it tastes like it should be more complicated than it is!
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Tomato Macadamia Mozzarella Linguine
This recipe is super easy to make!
Servings5 starter-size portions
Nutrition (For one serving)
Calories: 413kcalCarbohydrates: 43gProtein: 9gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 662mgPotassium: 1031mgFiber: 12gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 9297IUVitamin C: 60mgCalcium: 119mgIron: 4mg
Ingredients
Linguine
- 4 carrots medium-size, peeled
- 4 parsnips medium-size, peeled
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 15 pcs basil leaves large-size, chiffonaded
- 2 tbsp Italian seasoning
- 2 cups baby plum tomatoes cut into small sections
Macadamia mozzarella
- 1/2 cup macadamias
- 1/2 cup cashews
- 1 tbsp nama shoyu or tamari
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
Red pepper sauce
- 1/2 cup pine nuts
- 1 red pepper
- 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp tamari
- 1 tbsp agave
Instructions
- Turn the carrot and parsnip into thin strands with a mandoline or vegetable peeler. You can also make spaghetti using a spiral slicer.
- In a bowl, combine the vegetable pasta (linguine) you have produced with the salt and mix well by hand. Leave to stand whilst preparing the mozzarella.
- Combine all mozzarella ingredients in a Vitamix or food processor. (A Vitamix isn’t a food processor. It’s more of a blender, but no other blender that I know of is suitable to make the cheese, so an ‘ordinary’ processor is the next best thing.)
- Blend until a creamy texture is achieved. You may need to add a couple of tablespoons of extra water to get it all to mix. Set aside.
- Mix all red pepper sauce ingredients in a Vitamix or blender until smooth. (A regular blender is OK for this, as the mixture is saucier 🙂 than the cheese.) Again, you may need to add water to get a ‘sauce’ consistency.
- Go back to the linguine and you should find that it has released its water and is now softer and has a cooked ‘al dente’ feel. Wash the salt off and dry with kitchen towel or a salad spinner.
- Transfer linguine to a clean, dry bowl and add the remaining linguine ingredients. When thoroughly mixed, add the macadamia cheese and mix again by hand to coat all linguine in the cheese mixture.
- Serve with the red pepper sauce. For the dinner party, I built the pasta up in a metal ring that I bought from a cook shop and then removed the ring to get a pasta ‘tower’. I then put the sauce in a squeeze bottle and drizzled it over the top. You can also garnish with more chiffonade of basil.
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Katerina says
The best raw pasta I’ve ever tryed… Delicious!
Actually all your recipes are fantastic! Slowly I am cooking all dishes you have here and there was no one time me and my husband did not like something! Thank’s a lot!
Russell James says
Thanks, Katerina 🙂
Blue says
I mostly* made this. It was delicious, and very filling.
– I couldn’t find parsnips anywhere, so used yellow, orange, and purple carrots.
– I omitted agave, as the red pepper made the sauce sweet enough.
– I had no costly macadamias, so used all cashews.
– Pretty sure I halved the Italian seasoning. (You seem to be a fan of lots of dried oregano flavors, which I learned from the lasagna. 😉 I’m not so much.)
Yum! My boyfriend wanted to eat my dinner. Wish I could have tasted it as you’d intended.
Emily Brunner says
I just made this for dinner for my fiance and I… We absolutely loved it! Thanks for the great recipe❤
Anita says
I made this for my family tonight and we all agree it was delish!! Not at all what I expected….it was so much nicer 🙂
Russell James says
Well that’s good to hear, Anita! So glad you liked it 🙂
fani says
what is parsnip ?
Russell James says
It’s a root vegetable
Helen says
I’m new to raw. Do you soak the nuts in this recipe? When I see nuts in a recipe should I just assume they are soaked?
Russell James says
It’s always best to soak them, yes. But it’s only really important when using nuts that have a skin, such as almonds. That’s because most of the enzyme inhibitors are in the skin of the nut.
Svetlana says
Russell, do you mean red bell pepper? Which pepper are you talking about?
Russell James says
Hi Svetlana, yes, it’s red bell pepper. In the UK we just call them red peppers 🙂
Svetlana says
Came out great… thank you!
mindcontroll says
Seems wonderful, but Is nutritional yeast raw???
Russell James says
Nutritional yeast isn’t raw because they heat it up to 100 degrees C to make it inactive (so it doesn’t contribute to any yeast growth).
pcat says
Lovely looking & sounding dish but I have a question: so many raw recipes use a lot of nuts. I’ve been raw for five years but have had to cut down or eliminate nuts because they’re so fattening and so rich. I must have put on kilos because of eating so many nuts. A solution?
Russell James says
Hi.
It depends on which recipe you’re looking at. Most people tend to get on better with soaked seeds, such as sunflower, than nuts.
Also, depending on what the nuts are in the recipe for, you can substitute with avocado. So if a recipe calls for cashews for creaminess, you can get that with avocado.
Shirley says
Thanks for the delicious recipe. You have such great ideas!!!! Thanks for sharing with us.
Russell James says
Thanks, Shirley!
Ish Veli says
This dish totally rocks! Made it for the first time last week, doing it again tonight. Adore the e books, made the pizza, flax crackers, mince pies. All fabulous!
Russell James says
Love it! Thanks, Ish.
Angela says
Just got some nutritional yeast so this is very timely. Looking forward to trying it out.
Russell James says
Great. . .I hope you enjoy it!
Pamela Grow says
Thank you for sharing this, Russell. Your site and recipes are so beautifully elegant.
Russell James says
Thanks so much Pamela 🙂
Monica says
Russell,
I’m new to raw food and have tried zucchini pasta several times and hated it, i even tried putting it in the oven for a bit as suggested from a plant based site but still found it gross. is this an acquired taste you think? I’m not %100 raw but would love to get rid of grains in my diet.
thx a bunch!
Russell James says
Hi Monica, what is it that you find gross about it?
coconutandberries says
Had this for dinner this evening. So good. I especially loved the sweet red pepper sauce with it, I couldn’t help myself from licking the plate! Looking forward to leftovers tomorrow already 🙂 Thank you for a great recipe.
Russell James says
Wonderful! 🙂
Stephanie Baker says
Ah! I had SUCH a hard time getting the parsnips and carrots sliced, ribboned, curled…. anything like the picture! I have never used a sliralizer before and it did not turn out like the pictures so then I went to the mandoline and still did not turn out like your pictures… Mine appears more like elbow noodles in this dish! DELICIOUS though! Any tips maybe!??
Russell James says
Hi Stephanie – sure…I used a mandoline to slice them lengthways, and then staked them up on top of each other, to cut into strips, also lengthways.
Stephanie Baker says
Ohhhhhhhhhh! That sounds much easier 🙂 Thanks so much Russell!!!
Smbrew33 says
Do you like any particular company to buy your nuts and seeds- diff ones or all the same?
Russell James says
I just buy them from my local health food shop.
Russell James says
I just buy them from my local health food shop.
Russell James says
Just as an update to this, in the UK I buy them from Tree Harvest now, as they are by far the best quality and the cheapest.
Annegeelong says
Hi Russell, What is Italian seasoning – sorry if I have missed something – do you mean Italian dried herb mix? Or is it something you have already described here? This sounds great but i am not at all sure what you mean. Thanks for letting me know if you can coz I would love to make this – it sounds divine!
Russell James says
Hi, yes, you can buy Italian seasoning in supermarkets – it’s the tubs of dried Italian mixed herbs.
Russell James says
Hi, yes, you can buy Italian seasoning in supermarkets – it’s the tubs of dried Italian mixed herbs.
Jess Holman says
I made this for lunch today. Easy and delicious!
Aaron Hirshberg says
This looks amazing!
Bethanydockrill says
so beautiful!!
Gillian Joseph says
I made this for lunch today, attempting to persuade my partner that we should eat more raw vegan food. It was a total hit – he’s even requested that I make it for him to take to work for lunch! Full of flavour, texture and interest. 🙂
Thanks for your fantastic website, and for being such an inspiration. Though we’re currently omnivorous, sites like these help us to move our diets towards a more plant-based ideal.
Stuart Waldner says
Dear Russell,
Love your website, blog, and emails! Keep up the great work you’re doing!
I just made this for lunch and I think it’s the first pasrnip I’ve ever had in my life. Because of that, I don’t know what I could do to make it better. I’m traveling and staying in a hotel with a kitchen. I travel with my Vitamix and brought my mandolin slicer. The carrots were a bit easier to make into noodles than the parsnips were. I think they we too large, too tough, or cut too thickly for the salt to do it’s thing. My mandolin only has 1/8″ or 3/8″ thickness for making strips. I used the 1/8″ but they were still to thick and tough. Any thoughts on what I ca do next time I make this? I still haven’t purchased a spiral veggie cutter and thought that might make a difference. What about substituting another veggie instead? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. With a alfredo-esque white sauce like this one, who would ever miss dairy?
Thanks and keep on keeping on!
Stuart
MALACHI says
wow this is excellent what a chef!
rawthin says
wow, this is amazing. I made it, it was so easy and so divinely delicious! thanks for helping me stay raw in a very wonderful way!
gretchen says
Made this tonight, and it was fantastic! I’m pretty sure I have more than five servings, though. I could only eat about half of the bowl I made myself…
hihorosie says
Wow, that looks amazing.
Stephanie Berry says
WOW. You have become a tour de force. What a magnificent recipe. You make it such a pleasure to be raw. Bless you! I don’t have to stagger around feeling that I cant handle one more salad.Keep it up / I am definitely willing to shell out the ash to get a cookbook. Let me know.
Elena Karnaukh says
Hey Russell, your website is absolutely wonderful. I have tried many of your recipes and they are to live for. Keep up the good work you are doing and create more raw delicious recipes I can try.
Big thank you for all your recipes.
Lyn says
Hi Russell – just stumbled on your site and it’s fantastic! I hope you’ll put out a recipe book with all these great recipes inside. Keep up the good work and I look forward to receiving my first “News from the Kitchen” email!
Russell James says
Thanks Lana!
I ran the kitchen on Alissa’s course recently when she came to the UK. I really enjoyed it and loved meeting everyone, including Alissa.
I hope to have some photos of the course sent through soon so I’ll put them up when I get them.
I will also be posting more recipes on here when I move into my new house and have kitchen space to develop recipes! 🙂
Thanks again for your comments.
Lana says
Hey Russell,
Loved the Tomato & Macadamia Mozzarella Linguine ! Great recipe.
I also made your Almond bread recipe. Loved it!
Keep posting the delish Raw recipes. You are becoming quite famous on RFT -Alissa Cohen’s message board…We sure appreciate you!
Thanks,
Lana