Is there anything more decadent and unhealthy than a traditional Alfredo sauce? Most of the recipes I’ve seem are solid cream, butter, cheese and all-fat milk. Not very vegan friendly and a dangerous gut bomb when paired with pasta. But I never get tired of creating healthier, high-raw versions to coat veggies in. Tonight I threw together a creamy tomato hemp seed version that came out nicely with a thick and creamy texture, perfect for coating spiral sliced zucchini “noodles” and lightly steamed broccoli.
The Raw Project
Tomato Hemp Alfredo Sauce
- 1 cup shelled hemp seeds
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. ground pepper
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 1/2 cup of water
Place all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend to a smooth and creamy texture. Use as a salad dressing or creamy sauce based for veggies. Garnish with fresh chopped parsley (optional) and enjoy. Makes about 4 servings.
The sauce coated the spiral sliced zucchini beautifully and had a rich, reddish color from the tomato.
The fresh parsley added a fresh and bright texture and flavor to the dish with a nice color contrast.
I also topped the raw Alfredo dish with hemp seed parmesan mixture.
It made a fresh and seemingly decadent nutrient-dense dinner, the sauce has a smooth, rich, and creamy flavor that was very satisfying. I could see using it as a salad dressing too or for a raw vegan Alfredo pizza … hmm, I need to try that next!
Our plate cleaning service also approved of the sauce.
Some other hemp seed recipes to try:
this is such a “Christine” sauce…it’s so you! It looks wonderful & I need to break out my spiralizer, soon!
So true, hemp seeds could be my theme ingredient lately. :-)
Nice and simple! I assume the “1/4 of nutritional yeast” is 1/4 cup?
Yes, that’s correct and recipe fixed. :-)
Ahhhh…I was waiting for this from your instagram pic :-) Looks awesome!
Where do you get your hemp seeds? I bought some from http://eatseed.com last week and they seem like the best so far! Love to try this recipe with them!
Hi, lately I’ve been purchasing this 5 lb. bag of hemp seeds every 6 months from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Nutiva-Organic-Shelled-Hempseed-5-Pound/dp/B000GAT6MM/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1348368571&sr=8-5&keywords=hemp+seeds
And storing them in the freezer in an air-tight container that I can pull smaller servings from as needed.