Raw Food Alchemy by Amie Sue
This recipe would be such a fun way to get your kids involved with meal preparation! I always thought the spiralizer was such an amazing tool that would excite children, but these almost take the cake. Let them cut out the letters and spell things along the way. If you don’t want to buy these alphabet cutters you can easily make the zucchini into any shape or form for this soup. Remember, zucchini is the “pasta noodle” replacement in recipes. You could dice it up into small chunks, make noodle ribbons with a potato peeler or a spiralizer machine if you have one. The Wilton Fondant Alphabet Cookie Cutters run $10 for the full alphabet and number set… a small price to pay when creating wonderful memories with your loved ones.
Hand mix in at the end:
Photo below ~ Slice the zucchini length wise about 1/8″ thick. If your zucchini has large seeds,
only slice down to those. If you have large seeds it will be mushy when trying to cut out the letters.
Don’t worry though, that seeded part will get used in the rest of the recipe, so nothing goes to waste.
Photo below ~ Press the cutters into the zucchini.
Photo below ~ This is what it looks like from the bottom side.
Photo below ~ Use a pointed stick (I used a skewer stick) to gently push the zucchini out of the cutter.
Photo below ~ Playing around. How can one NOT!
Photo below ~ Depending on how large the zucchini is,
you can see here that you can fit a lot of letters on one strip!
Photo below ~ Spread the letters out on to a baking pan and sprinkle a good dose of salt on top.
Set this aside while you prepare the rest of the soup. The salt will draw the water out of the letters,
making them softer.
Photo below ~ These are the leftovers from punching out the letters. We will use these in the soup base.
Photo below ~ See how shiny the letters are getting? They are “sweating” out the water.
Photo below ~ I moved them around a bit so you could see how much water is being released.
Photo below ~ Once you are ready to add the zucchini letters, rinse them off so the soup isn’t to salty.
Meet Reuben… our friend and also an amazing electrician. He happily agreed to be a taste tester for my soup. I explained that he could eat it at room temperature, as a person eating a raw food diet would… but that if he didn’t care for it “raw”, I could heat it for him. He taste tested it in the “raw” form and said he liked it that way. You know that saying that goes something like, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”? Well, he agreed, “When in a raw kitchen, do as the raw foodies do!”
Thank you Reuben for all the hard work you do and for allowing me to put your picture on Nouveau Raw!
See all that destruction in the background? I won’t go into details about that just yet but I will give you a hint… Nouveau Raw Kitchens….
This is way tooooo cute! Good job my dear friend!
Love, xx
Thanks Jana :)
You are SO creative – that is amazing!!!
Thanks Cara. :) It tastes as good as it looks too!
Is your electrician married? Just kidding. The soup looks wonderful too. Thanks for the recipe.
Haha Joanne… I will have to see if I can release that info. hehe I hope you try the soup. My husband polished off the last of the pot last night. :)
Wow Amie Sue!
You are so creative! Next break-out the dehydrator. Let’s see those letters as crackers. :) That would be a great shot.
Hi Gabrielle :) Crackers it is! Oh those would be tiny little buggers thought. haha I will see what I can come up with.
Yummy!!! This looks delicious! I am always looking for soup recipes, especially this time of year. Many are overloaded on onion and garlic, which I do not care for.
Can I leave out the corn, or replace it with something else? I am allergic to corn.
Thanks, Amie Sue, and God bless!!!!
Also, do you happen to have a chicken stock recipe (I know, it’s not raw).
Hi Chris, of course you can leave out the corn… you can add more peas, perhaps some shredded carrot… it’s really up to you and what you like and can eat.
A chicken stock recipe… like a bone broth?
amie sue
Thanks!I wasn’t sure how it would affect the texture.
Yes, a bone broth indeed (without onion!). Thanks!!!
I sent you an email Chris regarding the bone broth. :)
In the past I haven’t quite gotten the timing and temperature of warming a raw soup right. How warm is the soup at 115? How long does it take to heat the soup thru and thru in the dehydrator? Do you take the inside temp of the soup or can you just rely on the themostat setting? How do you warm for several portions, in seperate bowls? Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Naomi,
If you are wanting to be 100% accurate, I would suggest using a candy thermometer to check the temp of the soup. Whether you are doing it on the stove top or in the dehydrator. I can’t say exactly how long it would take in a dehydrator… it will be based off of how big the bowl is, how full you fill the bowl, what type of machine you are using, etc. Way to many variables for me to give you a correct answer to. Though, I will say that if you want to speed up the heating process when using the dehydrator, I would break it up into smaller bowls that expose as much soup surface as possible.
Wow! Your creative recipe idea looks like a lot of fun!
This is perfect for introducing my young nephews to raw food. If they take part in creating it, more than likely they will also eat it.
Thank you for your wonderful website!
That is exactly what I was thinking Martie…kids will look at veggies in a whole new way. :)
What a fantastic idea!!!! I love this – you are so creative!
this is a genius idea!! Courgette alphabet croutons!!! Perfect for little ones learning to spell :-) I totally love this :-)
It was a ton of fun to make… I hope you try it! amie sue
Love this soup…my goodness you need to write a book using the doTERRA oils. So many of my clients keep asking me how to prepare raw meals…after all I’m in Idaho and it is a foreign idea here. I use the oils so much because they are pure and add such a great flavor…sweet or savory it’s all great. Let’s talk, Darlene
Hi Darlene!
I am interested in these oils… I know several people who use them. I never thought of using them in recipes those… I love to pack as much nutrient into recipes as I can without getting to crazy and making it hard for people to get the ingredients. I am sure these would really add to the recipes!
This looks like so much fun Amie Sue. I never in a million years would have thought about making the letters out of zucchini. Can’t wait to try it!
Hi Kristi…. since you are moving closer to the grand kids, this would be so much fun to make with them!
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