Raw Food Recipe: Spaghetti and “Meat” Balls
This is actually one of my favorite raw food recipes. When I was in the middle of my Raw 21 challenge, I was craving spaghetti and set out to make a filling raw food recipe. The marinara sauce keeps for days in the refrigerator and the “sausage” keeps for months in the freezer. You can make a big batch and enjoy it for quite a few meals! Raw on the fly! It is a great recipe for your spiral slicer, too!
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Spaghetti and "Meat" Balls
Mushroom Sausage
- 2 cups Carrots, grated
- 2 cups Portobello Mushrooms, chopped fine
- 1 cup Onion, chopped fine
- 3/4 cup Celery, diced
- 1 cup Walnuts, soaked and ground fine while wet
- 1/2 cup Pumpkin Seeds, soaked and ground fine while wet
- 1/4 cup Water, filtered
- 1/4 cup Nama Shoyu
- 1 tablespoon Italian spices.
- 1 cup Oat Flour, raw OR 3/4 cup Flax, ground
- Combine carrots, mushrooms, celery, and onion.
- Stir in walnuts and pumpkin seeds, combine well.
- Combine water and nama shoyu, mix into veggie/nut mixture
- Add herbs, stir well.
- Stir raw oat flour OR ground flax seeds in in batches (half at a time)
- Shape into patties no 4-5 inches across, no more than 1 inch thick. Place on screens and dehydrate at 140 for 1 hour. Reduce heat and dehydrate until dry. 6-8 hours. You want these to be dry.
- Break into bite size pieces.
Marinara Sauce
- 2 cups sun dried tomatoes
- 2 cups water
- 1 large clove garlic
- 1 teaspoon oregano (dried)
- 1 teaspoon basil (dried)
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Soak tomatoes in water until soft.
- Put tomatoes, water and the rest of the ingredients in a high speed blender.
- Process until smooth
Assembly
- 2 yellow zucchini
- Sausage
- Marinara Sauce
- Put zucchini through spiralizer. Set in colander for 20 minutes to let water drain off.
- Top with sauce and “sausage”
*Chef’s Note: I topped this with grated pine nuts for a little extra flavor. I also like to warm this in the dehydrator prior to serving.
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Victoria wrote on March 12, 2012
Marinara sauce is so delish and easy to make!
I am not quite Raw – I’m gradually going vegetarian and want to transition to Vegan then Raw…so I used the marinara sauce on my homemade vegetarian pizza dough. Wow! made for a tasty pizza.
My next venture is to make the Raw Pizza. I’ve tried several recipes on your site and have not been disappointed yet!
Susan wrote on February 28, 2012
Carol:
#1) I don’t know. I have never done that.
#2) Yes you could. It depends on your taste as to whether you would want a sauce or not.
Denise wrote on October 19, 2010
I have been looking for a substitute for the cooked version of this, one of my most beloved comfort foods! Thank you. Will be trying it soon.
Denise
terri Harmening wrote on October 18, 2010
I have never been to a class for Raw. Do you have anything coming up?
Susan wrote on October 18, 2010
I will be posting classes this week!
terri Harmening wrote on October 18, 2010
i am new to the whole world of RAW… have a question.
IT is pumpkin season here in mn… I see you are calling for pumpkins seeds as do many recipes. I assume I have to take the seed out of the shell—like one does a sunflower seed? Or do you use it just as is when one pulls it out of the pumpkin. Please advise.
Also, what is your opinion about freezing the pumpkin seeds for storing them? Or should i dehydrate them so that tye are dry enough to put in a vacuum packed sealed bag?
Thanks,
Terri
Susan wrote on October 18, 2010
I actually get mine at the coop. They do not have shells and I think are not the same as the ones that come out of the pumpkins here. They are actually green.
Carla wrote on October 18, 2010
This looks amazing! I have to try this! When the winter gets cold, and I start to carve hot food I will come back to this site for suggestions! Thank you!
veganforlife wrote on October 16, 2010
I made this today. The ‘sausage’ is dehydrating and my house is smelling WONDERFUL! I couldn’t wait though and ate half of one of the patties with some marinara sauce on it. YUMMY! That marinara is the best sauce for bah-skettie yet! I like it better than using fresh tomatoes and the sun-dried and EVOO. It’s thicker. I mean I could cut up a fresh tomato to serve on top, but what a good marinara. It’s my fav. I can see using this as a base for Raw pizza. Good recipe. Quick and so good…yeah, the sausage could be spicier, but as food dehydrates it gets stronger flavored. I see this as a base for other patties – Mexican flavored, Japanese flavored. I just thought how good this would be to take a half a Nori sheet and spread this sausage pattie thin on it, roll it up and dehydrate until kinda crispy, like a Gopal nori snack? hmmmm, I see lots of uses…I like the walnut and pumpkin seed combo. Thanks for all your wonderful goodnesses…
Neven wrote on October 15, 2010
Wow! I need to have this right now.
Marilyn wrote on October 14, 2010
My wish is for my best friend, Linda, to be willing to change to a raw lifestyle so she will be able to beat her cancer that is wreaking havoc in her body. Thank you.