Mouthwatering Organic Vegetarian Salad
this is john kohler with okraw.com. todayi have another exciting episode for you. i'm going to do a recipe demo! i don't often dorecipe demos for you guys, but i'm going to do one today because this of my favorite recipes.so, this recipe demo is a salad and it's an 811 approved salad because there's no overtfats. now, some people may want to include fats, some people may not. some days i includefats, like a handful of nuts will do, and, you know, some days i don't, and this is oneof the days i'm not. so, what we're goanna do is start off with the first thing you needstart your salad is you need your salad greens. so, as you can see i've got these little containershere. these are called grow-ems containers. they're very similar to earth boxes. i gotthem on clearance at lowes hardware store
for about $10. so, check it out, for about$10 i'm able to grow a lot of different leafy greens, and i want to encourage you guys toeat a variety of leafy greens, 'cause not only do i have lettuce growing, i got cilantrogrowing, i got some mild mustard greens, i got some mizuno, i got some red russian kale.i even have some radish greens that i started from seed. so, i want to encourage you guysto eat a wide variety of greens. so, what i'm goanna do now is i'm goanna start pickingmy baby greens. so, there's some radish greens there, some lettuce, here's some mild mustard,here's some red russian kale, here's some more like, cruciferous greens, radish greens,red russian kale greens. here's some tot soi. i really like to eat tot soi; it's like amild asian green. actually, that stuff grows
really well, let me show you guys that. so,the tot soi is my favorite thing to grow in the wintertime because it grows so fast. asyou can see it's filled out these 2 little containers i got really well, and as i goaround harvesting, i'm going to harvest one leaf off each plant and in this way they continueto grow and continue to feed me. i could literally come out here a few times each week and harvestone leaf each time provided there's plenty of sun and the weather is good, because asyou pick it, guess what? it encourages the plants to grow faster. now, i don't know howlong you guys have been into raw foods, but i've been into raw foods for 18 years. thisis my 18-year anniversary, and one of the things i want to encourage you guys to doin raw foods is to grow your own foods, because
that is really the end game in raw foods.just think about it. you could go outside and pick fruit form your fruit trees and pickyour greens, and when i'm picking greens i'm not picking large leaves of kale, i'm picking,you know, little baby leaves of kale right here. baby leaves, they digest easier, they'remore tender, and guess what? they have more nutrition, and plus when you're buying evenorganic produce at the store, it's been picked and shipped, and you're probably getting it7 days after it's harvested, and guess what? after it's harvested, the nutrition goes down.up to 50% of nutrients can be lost in just 24 hours. so, literally by growing my own,picking my own, and going inside and eating my own, i'm getting higher nutrient qualitybecause it's just picked, plus i'm growing
it with higher quality soil that anythingon earth. i guarantee this stuff is grown with higher quality soil than anything elsemoney can't buy, because i'm using things like compost, and rock dust, trace mineralsupplementation to my soil, and if you want to learn about growing food, i have a wholechannel dedicated to that, with over 700 videos, that will teach you guys how to grow the foodand actually show you guys how i plat them out, and that website is growingyourgreens.com.what i'm going to do next is actually just pick my stuff for my salad and fill up mysalad bowl with a minimum of a half pound, hopeful maybe even a pound if i can do that,then i'll go inside and make a dressing for you guys to put on my fresh-picked salad greens.hello, my friends. i just walked in a picked
all my fresh baby greens out of my garden.now, we have about 3 quarters of a pound here of fresh baby greens, and what we're goannado next is actually dump them into a larger bowl. one of my pet peeves is small bowls.now, the bowl that i'm actually dumping these green into is called a punch bowl, cause thisis the size bowl that i believe you guys should be eating out of every night, even thoughthis large bowl is one of the largest sizes you can get, are devoid in many of my rawfoods friends houses, which is sick because you should be eating out of super large bowls.so, get a punch bowl. i got this on clearance. punch bowls are really good, 'cause they'llbe able to hold all your greens. in this bowl, it was overflowing, but in this one it's justabout right, and it's goanna be able to hold
all the dressing that we're goanna make formy mixed leafy green salad here, fresh-picked. so, what we're goanna do for the dressingis really simple. we're goanna blend up some fruit. i've had this dressing, and it's reallydelicious, and it only takes 2 ingredients. so, the 2 ingredients are mangoes, and wehave about .80 pounds of mangoes, so that's about the same as .75, so â¾ pounds of mangoes,and peppers. so, i recommend using bell peppers in this recipe, sweet peppers, so use red,orange, or yellow. do not use any green peppers. they are not ripe, and they're going to makethis recipe taste terrible. in addition, i don't recommend you guy eat any unripe solanaceaefruits, and those are peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants. now a good thing in my opinion.today i'm using the mini pepper. these are
actually hothouse grown. so, i do on occasioneat hot house grown foods because they're probably not sprayed with pesticides and inmost cases they're using ipm, integrated pest management, which means they're only goannaspray as a last resort if they need to. many hothouse varieties may be certified as pesticidefree. these guys, i find, are a lot sweeter than the larger peppers, but the challengewith these guys is it's a lot more labor intensive the remove all the seeds. so, those are the2 main ingredients, another ingredient we're goanna use is another pepper. now, this isnot a sweet pepper, this is a hot pepper. this is a hot pepper i grew in my very gardenand dried it. so, what we're goanna do is we're goanna add some of the dried skin ofthe flesh to the blender without the seeds.
if you add the seeds, you're goanna be infor a heap of trouble, 'cause it's goanna be super hot. so, i guess let's go ahead andmake this dressing. so, what we're goanna use today is this vitamix 32 ounce carafe.some of you guys may have the 64-ounce vitamix carafe, but i like the 32-ounce, especiallywhen making dressings. it tends to vortex better, in sucking everything better, andit's less to clean. so, we're going to go ahead and simply put that in top of the blenderand were going to dump if our mangoes. i already took off the skin and the pit, so we justhave all the fruit here, the thing i want you guys to remember about the mangoes isthat they're the number 1 fruit in the world, and they're very high in vito-chemicals. so,that's really good. i want to encourage you
guys to eat a plant-based diet that's richin the vito-chemicals and vito-nutrients that's found in fruits and vegetables. next, we'regoing to go ahead and add out pepper. i deseeded the peppers. once again, this is about â¾of a pound, approximately. we're going to go ahead and dump these in. i'm goanna smushthose down in there so they all fit. no problem. finally we're going to take my hot pepper,and i'm going to crack this open for you guys, and we're going to make sure we don't getany of the seeds, and you know what? when adding hot pepper, you can use some cyan pepperif you don't have some freshly grown and dehydrated peppers from your garden, if you do, add alittle but, and then taste the dressing, to make sure it's at the right taste for you,because this is to taste, and it's also optional.
you don't need to add the hot spiciness, buti like to add a little but of spiciness to make the dressing fun. alright, that is thelast of the pepper. now, the reason i like the peppers so much is because they're actuallyhighest of any fruit on the andi scoring system. andi scoring system stands for aggregate nutrientdensity index, and besides just eating fruits and vegetables, i want to encourage you guysto eat foods that are high on the andi scoring list. actually some of the foods that arehighest on the list are the kale, at 1000, and that's why i like the leafy greens, andit's important to get a good amount of leafy greens in your diet each and every day. iknow you guys have no problem eating frits because they're so good and so sweet, butmany people don't eat enough greens in my
opinion. my goal is to eat 2 pounds of greensevery day, and in salad alone, it's â¾ of a pound of greens. if i take into considerationall the fruits we're blending up, this salad is 2 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetablesthat you can be including in your diet that i'm including in my diet tonight for dinner.let's go ahead and get blended. sometimes when blending i like to pulse a little bitto get everything mixed up, and it's very important when blending you don't want tojust let your blender run and just walk away because then you can overblend. overblendingcan cause additional oxidation, and you'll be losing nutrients in your dressing, so onlyblend as long as you need to. alright, i think we've got it all blended up. so, once again,the simple strategy for this salad, â¾ of
a pound of greens, â¾ of a pound of peppers,â¾ of a pound of mango. wow, this stuff smells really good. so, remember, 1:1:1. that's theeasiest recipe that you'll ever learn. just remember the greens, the mango, the pepper,and a little bit of hot pepper and a 1:1 ratio. so, if you're doing 1 pound of green, do 1pound of pepper, and 1 pound of mangoes. i found that, in ding it, i use like a wholebunch of greens, â¾ of a pound, maybe a pound some nights, 2 peppers, and 2 mangoes. so,let's go ahead and pour this dressing on, and yes this is a lot of dressing, and i likemy salads flooded with dressing, because it makes the greens go down easier because eatbite is covered in this sweet, hot, delicious goodness. alright, so we got it almost allpoured out. what i hate, actually, is stuff
at the bottom of the blender that doesn'tsome out, so i got this special spatula from william sonoma, and if you just go in therelike, this will go around the blade, and you'll be able to scoop out all of your organic dressingwithout losing any of the rich fruit goodness going on. alright, we got every last bit ofdressing. no dressing left behind in my house. we don't even need a fork, just dip a leafin. man, this is so good, i can't wait to sit down and eat dinner now! anyways, i hopeyou guys enjoyed this episode and learning how to make a fresh delicious salad with somehome-picked salad greens. i want to encourage you guys to grow your own greens and growas much food on your property as you can. even if you don't have, you know, a lawn orbackyard to do it, you can row in containers,
like you saw in my yard today. you can growin containers in your lawn or a patio or a driveway. you can also grow microgreens orsprouts in your house so that you can say you're growing your own food. hopefully afterwatching this episode you'll be more motivated to eat some more fresh greens and make thisdelicious dressing. my name is john kohler with okraw.com, hopefully we'll see you nexttime, and remember; keep eating your fresh fruits and vegetables. they're the best.
