No-Fat Asian Daikon Noodle Salad

NOODLES

6" peeled daikon radish, make ends flat

Put into spiralizer and make noodles.

SALAD

5 oz. spinach, chopped
10 grape tomatoes, sliced lengthwise
2 limes
3 green onions, finely chopped (more green than white)

Fill large pasta bowl with spinach and chop.  Add sliced grapes tomatoes, and chopped green onions.  Squeeze limes over salad.

DRESSING

1/2 red pepper
few slices serrano (optional)
1 reg. sized mango, no peel and no seed
5-7 basil leaves
2 med. tomatoes, whole
rest of daikon end left in spiralizer

Put all in blender and blend until smooth.  Pour dressing over noodles and salad.*

*Sprinkle sesame seeds over top (optional - will add overt fat).

Mango/Kiwi/Spinach Smoothie - Thick and Rich

2 kiwi, peeled 
1 small mango or ½ mango, no seed and no peel
2 handfuls of fresh baby spinach
4 small mint leaves

Put kiwi and mango in blender first and pile on rest.  Will help blend when liquidy fruit is on the bottom.  Will be very thick.*  Will need to eat with spoon. 

*I don't like to add water or ice to my smoothies or juices because it dilutes my stomach acid (HCL) and I need all I can get.  May not apply to others.  

Plantain Hash with Sweet Gravy

GRAVY

Juiced org. grapes, about 4 oz.
1 mango, without seed or peel
1/3 pint of blackberry
few slices of serrano, optional
5 leaves of mint

Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

HASH

Slice up plantains thinly and on the diagonal.

Pour gravy over hash.  Enjoy!

Blackberry "Vinaigrette" over Baby Spinach Salad

Dressing

1/2 pint blackberries
1 small mango (I used Ataulfo)
2 small oranges, squeezed (I used Valencia)
5 basil leaves
few chopped slices of serrano, optional (I'm addicted!)

Put everything but the serrano in blender (I have Montell Williams HealthMaster) and blend until smooth.  Taste and see if it needs anything, like more basil.

Salad

Baby Spinach
10 grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise
5 white button mushrooms (preferably organic), well washed and cut into pieces

Pour Dressing over Salad and add serrano if desired.  Very flavorful...!

No-Fat Raw Horseradish BBQ Sauce with Mushroom Meat & Plantain Slices

BBQ SAUCE

1 mamey sapote, scooped out
1 mango, peeled and chopped
1/2 tsp. thyme
1 garlic clove, sliced
few slices of sweet onion (to taste) - optional
8 grape tomatoes
1/4 inch ginger, grated
1/4 inch horseradish, grated (start slow and keep tasting)
few squeezes of lemon
handful of washed cilantro leaves
slice of serrano (optional - if want some heat)

Place all ingredients in cuisinart and blend into creamy.*

PUT OVER:
Ripe red plantains, sliced at an angle
Button Mushrooms, preferably organic, well washed, sliced

Very meaty and satisfying!

* Sauce actually tastes much better with just 4 hours of being in the fridge because the bold flavors all melded together.

Grape, Banana and Date Smoothie

About 30 red seedless grapes (sorry just a rough estimate)
2 bananas
2 dates

Blend in high speed blender.  I blended at highest speed for about 20 seconds.  I like to find a few chunks.  Makes it interesting.  Some like it completely smooth.  Blend according to your tastes.  

Cream of Plantain Pineapple Soup

One russet potato, juiced, throw out juice and keep starchy bit found under juice in the glass
3 spears pineapple
1 plantain

Use the starch from the juiced potato (found at bottom of glass- quite thick).  Puree in cuisinart the pineapple, plantain and starch.  Thick creamy soup.  Very filling:)