Soaking almonds overnight, for 8-9 hours, allows their skins to be easily removed, as you can see in this video demonstration.
Breakfast Ice Cream
The Story
Every morning, our family relies on activated nuts or seeds as the basis for homemade granolas, chocolates, and ice creams! We discovered these radical breakfast options after adhering to the raw food lifestyle for 30 days. Now, we're enjoying the most important meal of the day like rawkstars.
You might be surprised to know how decadent an "ice cream" can be with only two or three simple ingredients. This recipe relies on three: almonds, bananas, and strawberries. Another variation calls for mango, cashews, and cardamon. To me, these icy, creamy breakfast dishes are actually more delicious than traditional ice creams, and our alternative is purely healthy.
The Food Prep
For deluxe outside-the-box breakfast options, our family starts by soaking a cup of nuts or seeds overnight. This is a way of activating the almonds' superpowers! True story. Raw nuts are ideal for human consumption after they've been activated, by soaking them in water. Removing the almond skins is optional, but soaking is a must.
My personal recommendation is to discard the almond skins, to keep your ice cream pristine. Otherwise it can be a bit gritty. Also, while you can certainly create a pleasant creamy dessert with fresh strawberries and bananas, the frozen fruits allow you to scoop and lick it like the homemade ice cream we scream for.
In a food processor, activated almonds mix with frozen strawberries and frozen bananas into a taste and texture almost identical to strawberry ice cream.
This raw dessert requires a durable food processor. Our little machine wiggles and jiggles at first, processing the frozen fruits, but after a bit of wrestling the consistency is smooth, thick, and dreamy.
Ice cream at 7 a.m. might seem like a wild idea, but just remember, this ice cream is made entirely of fruits and nuts.
Wishing you an incredible edible day!
–Cabe
All content is original, by @cabelindsay.