Jan 4, 2015 | Healthy Eating
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This week our resident Vegan chef, Sussana, gives us her more-than-easy Chocolate and Mint Brownies recipe.
Ingredients
2 cups of raw pecan nuts (or other nut of choice)
1 cup of chocolate chips (preferably raw)
5 tablespoons of date paste
2 oz. of raw cacao powder
2/3 tbsp of raw coconut oil
Peppermint extract or essential oil, 2 drops (or other extract, like orange, vanilla or pear)
In a food processor Combine the pecans, chocolate and cacao powder.
Mix well and be careful not to overmix the dough.
Add the date paste and the extract.
Add the coconut oil and mix until everything is combined.
Press the dough into a baking dish or moulds.
Put into the fridge and once firm cut into squares.
How to make the date paste:
1 cup of raw dates, preferably Medjool dates
Water to cover the dates
Soak the dates until soft, drain them (keep the water) and put them into the blender with few tablespoons of water.
Process until you have your date paste.
For a thinner paste, add more water.
It will keep into the fridge for a month, properly stored.
Dec 9, 2014 | Healthy Eating
Today, Santosa’s chef, Susanna Eduini, gives us a mouth watering recipe for Tropical parfait.
I created it for breakfast.
Breakfast is breaking our fast of the night.
Starting each day with a smooth concoction of fruit, nut milk and nutrition-dense seeds, gives us energy and good mood for the day.
This recipe for Tropical Parfait contains all of that, plus raw cacao and buckwheat, for pleasure and taste without guilt and gluten.
Serves one person.
Chocolate pudding layer:
2 tbsp of chia seeds
1 glass of almond milk
1 tbsp of raw cacao powder
1 tsp of raw cacao nibs (optional)
In a bowl put all the ingredients and stir gently and in few minutes the liquid will turn into a pudding.
Refrigerate it.
Fruit layer
Your fruit of choice (here I used half ripe mango)
3 tbsp of cold pressed coconut oil
Lemon juice
In your blender process the ingredients until you have a smooth mousse.
Refrigerate until serving.
Serving:
Scoop the chocolate pudding into the serving glass.
Top with the fruit pudding.
Decoration:
Sprinkle with germinated buckwheat and a mint leaf as final decoration.
If you don’t have buckwheat, sprinkle with some raw cacao powder.
Enjoy!
Dec 2, 2014 | Healthy Eating
Why is raw food so popular nowadays? Why should we embrace raw food in our life?
Santosa’s Raw Food Chef and Coach Susanna Eduini is going to give you a perfect answer in her raw food cooking class.
“Raw food are easy to digest, so our bodies are less taxed and more energetic and we can use this extra energy to live at our best, to go towards our best dreams and make them happen and manifest into reality.”
– Susanna Eduini
The classes are well designed and composed of 6 sessions, if you choose to attend for 2 weeks, you will have a rather complete picture of raw food concepts. However, each session is also valuable as a standard session you can pop in anytime. Susanna is a famous coach in Italy, in her class, your 5 senses will be all enticed to taste, smell, touch, feel, and see what raw food is about, making it an unforgettable experience.
Our first raw food cooking class will be on Dec 3 (Wednesday) from 15:00 to 16:00. Please call to book @ 076-330-600.
A Brief introduction of Susanna Eduini
Raw Food Chef and Vegan Coach
Author of 3 bestseller books in Italy
– [Raw Food is served]
– [Juices and Smoothies]
– [Sweet and Raw]
Oct 25, 2014 | Healthy Eating
There are many cabbage salad recipes out there. Today, we share with you our Asian Cabbage Salad recipe! Raw cabbage contains a slightly-sweet flavour that makes your mouth happy! It contains rice vinegar, sesame oil and sesame seeds. You are going to love it!
Ingredients
6 cups green cabbage, sliced in strips (about 1/2 large head of cabbage)
2 Tablespoon Sesame seeds, toasted
2 Tablespoon Peanuts
Dressing Ingredients
2 Tablespoon rice vinegar (don’t use seasoned vinegar which contains sugar)
1 Tablespoon Sesame Oil
1 Tablespoon agave nectar (can use honey instead)
1/8 Teaspoon Thai Chili Garlic Paste
Preparation
Slice cabbage in strips about 3/8 inch wide, cutting strips in half crosswise if they are too long.
Mix rice vinegar, sesame oil, agave nectar, Thai chili Garlic Paste and ginger in a small jar and shake to combine.
Toast sesame seeds about 1 minute in a small dry pan, until they start to be fragrant and slightly browned. Put cabbage strips into mixing bowl, toss well with dressing, arrange on individual serving plates and sprinkle with sesame seeds and peanuts.
Voila! We hope you’ll enjoy it as we do at the Santosa Restaurant in Phuket.
Do you have a favorite cabbage salad recipe? Tell us about it.
Oct 16, 2014 | Healthy Eating
At Santosa Detox Center in Phuket, we describe ourselves as vegetarian raw foodists and we invite you to share our views and food inclination with us.
Raw Food Diet
If you eat raw foods between 75% – 100%, you will be considered as a raw foodist. However, raw food concept might seem like strange to most people because we have been cooking our food for thousands of years, and obviously cooking is the main social activity in homes. In fact, raw food is almost completely usable by body and nutrient rich. Cooking meals degrade essential nutrients that might be the reason why human suffer from certain disease in increasing number. For example, cultures that eat predominantly raw food do not exhibit as many individuals with diseases such as heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure.
Heating food beyond 118 degree F. will cause documented changes to the chemical and molecular structure of food, which removes valuable nutrients and creates toxins. These toxins continue to build up as you consume your cooked meals and this can skew the acid alkaline balance in the body, which can lead to disease and weight gain.
All foods naturally contain various amounts of enzymes which are important in the body for digestion, cell division, hormone balance and immune system. However, cooking destroys these natural enzymes and that means the body has to work extra hard to ingest the food. Sometimes the body is not able to digest everything, which causes arteries and digestive tracts to get clogged up by undigested proteins, fats and starches. In other way,
Studies have shown that even taking a few raw food meals a week can already help improve your health. it is important to take it slowly and do some research rather than jumping in feet first, especially if you are an avid carnivore or have a sweet tooth. Branch out from salads to tasty creative raw recipes and before you know it you will be a raw foodist, on the road to vital health and longevity!
Oct 9, 2014 | Healthy Eating
Santosa Wellness & Detox Center in Phuket presents a new take on the world famous thai dish, Pad Thai!
Recipe
The recommended main ingredients for the Santosa vegetarian version of the Pad Thai are as follows:
Dried Rice noodles, tofu, tamarind pulp, soy sauce, garlic or shallots, red chilli pepper, sweet peppers, palm/coconut sugar, lime, nuts like cashew or peanut; it may also contain bean sprout, garlic chives, coriander leaves, pickled radishes, carrots, long bean and cabbage.
Vegetarian Food
Vegetarian cuisine refers to food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products. However eggs and dairy products such as milk and cheese are often permitted. The strictest forms of vegetarianism exclude all animal products, including dairy products as well as honey.
Vegetarian food isn’t simple at all. It is instead quite complex and requires serious study to learn the basic properties of foods and how food acts when handled in various ways. For example, when you soak nuts and legumes to sprout them you not only obtain maximum nutritional value, but you also achieve superior flavours. Or if you marinate certain vegetables for six to eight hours or more, you break down their undesirable starchiness completely.
Improved health is one of the many reasons people choose to adopt a vegetarian diet, and there is now a wealth of evidence to support the health benefits of a vegetarian diet. Research has found that vegetarians have lower rates of a number of health problems, including overweight and obesity, heart diseases, blood pressure, diabetes, constipation, some cancers, gall stone and kidney stone. Vegetarians generally have a lower body mass index and increased longevity.
At Santosa, vegetables represent the most compelling flavour on any plate, and they have been the hallmark and the repertoire of the cuisine.
Join us at Santosa Restaurant in Phuket for some delicious vegetarian food!
