Raw Tea Sandwiches
I have been creating and shooting around the clock, working on the next Rawmazing E-Book, Frozen Desserts. It is coming together beautifully and will be released soon.
When I am working on a recipe book, I have a tendency to put my head down and lose track of everything else. I often describe it as being in a completely different reality. It’s my cookbook reality and things like stopping for lunch just don’t exist there!
Today, in the middle of shooting, I realized I hadn’t even thought about lunch. I was hungry and I needed food fast. I had some beets and cucumbers in the fridge and quickly threw together these beautiful little tea sandwiches. They are perfect for a quick lunch, or a as a great appetizer for your next gathering. The pine nut “cheese” spread is full of scallions, cucumbers and a touch of tarragon. So simple and tasty I had a hard time photographing them because I kept eating them! Lucky they take less than 10 minutes to throw together!
The filling uses pine nuts which used to be a favorite of raw food recipe folk until the price soared through the roof. But the price is finally coming down…search around I bet you will find them!
Raw Tea Sandwiches
- 2 beets
- 1 cucumber (half sliced, half diced)
- 1 cup pine nuts
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced scallions
- 1 cup cucumber, diced (use the other half of the cucumber from above)
- 1 tablespoon tarragon
- Himalayan salt and pepper to taste
- Slice the beets and half of the cucumber into thin rounds.
- Place pine nuts, nutritional yeast, water, and lemon juice in food processor. Process until very well blended.
- Stir in the scallions, diced cucumber and the tarragon.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- You can either make little stacks with the beets and cucumbers, or just place a mound on top of a beet slice or cucumber slice.
Teal wrote on October 23, 2011
I’m sorry, I followed this recipe exactly and thought the inside pine nut recipe was horrible ! the picture looks good,but after trying the stuff before placing them on beets and cucumbers I decided to throw out the whole dish,very unfortunate being that pine nuts are so expensive but it was not something I could eat.
Patricia Robinett wrote on April 16, 2015
I wonder, Teal, if your pine nuts might not have gone rancid before you used them. ?
Susan wrote on October 23, 2011
The filling was made to be paired with the beets and cucumbers. It is one of my favorite recipes but everyone has their own tastes.
Erika wrote on July 18, 2011
I love these! I recently made a raw tomato-hummus “sandwich” that was very similar and delcious!
Kasey wrote on July 12, 2011
I have to be honest – I don’t typically do raw, but your pictures look amazing…Can you make this without the yeast, or replace it with something else?
Susan wrote on July 13, 2011
You can do it without the nutritional yeast but it is actually quite healthy for you. See http://www.rawmazing.com/raw-food-and-nutritional-yeast/
Elizabeth wrote on July 12, 2011
Brilliant, and what a delicious sounding filling recipe. I really miss pine nuts!!! I use to eat them quite a bit when they were affordable.
Beautiful photography…what a gift you have!
Peace & Raw Health,
Elizabeth
Nancy wrote on July 12, 2011
Beautiful, Susan!
Question: Is that fresh tarragon or dried?
Susan wrote on July 12, 2011
You can use either.
veganforlife wrote on July 12, 2011
WOW! They DO look fit for royalty. Nice! Little “pop in your mouth” goodies!
Andrea wrote on July 12, 2011
Thanks Susan for the idea. I love it.
They look very refreshing for a hot summer day.
I like the colors and the phoograph also. They look big sandwiches, but probably they are not.
Andrea
Tara wrote on July 12, 2011
Nice looking sandwiches. Do they fall apart when you eat them?
Susan wrote on July 12, 2011
They are bite sized.
Shernell Cooke wrote on July 11, 2011
This sounds exactly like me,I’m in cookbook mode and the people around me seem to think Ive neglected all else but I’ll get back to normalcy soon. Great photos !