4 Raw Recipes That Will Give You an Energy Boost

Energy is life. The more fresh and vital each food you take, the fresher and more vital you will notice your body and also your mood. Here are four raw recipes to recharge your batteries:

1. Energy green juice

Ingredients for 1 person:

• 3 branches of celery
• 2 apples
• a few sprigs of parsley
• a handful of spinach
• a piece of ginger
• 1 lemon
• ¼ teaspoon of spirulina powder
• 1 tablespoon of chia seeds

Preparation

It will take you 15 minutes. Cut the celery and apples into pieces. Run them together with the parsley, spinach and ginger through a juice extractor.

If you are going to use the pulp of any of the ingredients, take them separately; It is better that the pulps do not mix.

Squeeze the lemon and mix it with spirulina, chia seeds and the juice obtained from the previous step.

Let stand for a few minutes for the chia to set a little and you can take it.

Chewed or drunk: as the juice contains chía, it forces you to chew instead of swallowing it quickly. If you prefer, you can use ground chia.

2. Almond falafel with green tahini

Ingredients for 4 people:

For the falafel:

• 120 g of almonds
• 80 g of sunflower seeds
• 100 g of onion
• 125 ml of lemon juice
• zest of 2 lemons
• 100 ml of tahini
• 100 ml of oil
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon curry
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 clove garlic

For the green tahini sauce:

• 2 tablespoons of tahini
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1 minced garlic clove
• 150 ml of cold water
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 cup of parsley leaves
• 1 teaspoon salt

Preparation

It will take you 30 minutes plus soaking and dehydration time:

Previously, soak the almonds in water for at least 8 hours and the pipes for 4 hours (what pipes? Ed). Then wash them and strain them.

Grind the ingredients for the falafels until you get a rustic pâté and spread the preparation on the dehydrator tray.

Shape it into a circular ring and dehydrate for about 8 hours at 40 ˚C. Then turn them over and leave them for 4 hours or until they have the desired consistency.

For the sauce, put all the ingredients together and crush well. You already have your sauce ready.

You can serve the falafels accompanied by avocado and lettuce.

3. Banana and maca smoothie

Ingredients for 1 person:

• 1 banana
• 1 teaspoon Maca powder
• 1 cup of almond milk
• 1 tablespoon of coconut sugar

Preparation

It will take you only 15 minutes:

Cut the banana into pieces and place it in the bowl of the blender together with the Maca powder, the almond milk and the coconut sugar.

grind everything until you obtain a liquid and creamy texture at the same time.

You are ready to serve and drink. If you want, you can add ice.

You can buy almond milk (without added sugar) or prepare it at home.

To prepare it, place in a bowl 1 cup of almonds with 3 cups of water and let them soak overnight. Then, rinse them, drain them, pass them through the blender with the water and strain the liquid. It is stored in a glass jar and you can add cinnamon or vanilla.

4. Cocoa and sesame bars

Ingredients for 12 bars:

• 120 g of cocoa butter
• 100 g of sesame seeds
• 80 g of cocoa powder
• 50 g of lucuma powder
• 60 g of ground coconut sugar
• 1 pinch of vanilla powder
• 1 pinch of salt

Preparation

It will take you 20 minutes plus the soaking and freezing time:

You need to previously activate and dehydrate the sesame seeds. To do this, soak them in water overnight. Then strain, wash and dehydrate until crispy. They will serve you in endless recipes.

To make the bars, start by melting the cocoa butter in the water bath.

Mix cocoa, lucuma, coconut sugar, vanilla and salt in a bowl.

Add the butter slowly with a stick and add the sesame seeds.

Pour the mixture into the molds and take them to the freezer.

Once hardened, remove the bars from the mold and keep them in the refrigerator.

Vital recipes that fill you with energy

Does fatigue often defeat you? Nowadays, we can think that it is normal to answer with a yes. But is not. In its natural state our organism is energetic.

So, you have to ask yourself a few questions: how and how much do you sleep, if you expose yourself to the sun, if you do enough physical exercise, how much water do you take…

Drinking a good glass of water can revitalize us instantly and make fatigue disappear. But there is much more, of course.

There is also the food. Its original function is to provide energy, but if the nutrients lack nutrients we are weakening, the organs no longer work as they should and we are declining.

The foods that provide us with more energy are those rich in enzymes, vitamins, phytonutrients, minerals and antioxidants. These components are above all in raw, living foods, which nature gives us. There is energy, in life.

With the cooking and other abrupt processes to which we subject the food, the energy and vital contribution disappears. Food is no longer what we intend.

Dip yourself, then, in raw food and fill your fridge with live food for energy.

Superfoods against fatigue

Here are some examples of raw foods with energizing action. But there are many more and they are in the recipes we have already proposed above.

• Green leaves: alkalize and detoxify the blood, and a clean and fluid blood is synonymous with vital energy. And on top they are rich in vitamin K, essential to prevent the affections of age (250 g of raw green vegetables cover your daily needs for this vitamin).
• Banana: if ripe, it has a high content of sugar easily assimilated (glucose, fructose and sucrose). In fact, the glycemic index of the banana is low if it is somewhat green, and medium if it is mature. It gives us energy for before, during and after exercising.
• Maca: this superfood that comes from the Andes and is consumed mostly in powder as a supplement increases the energy level. Usually consumed, it elevates the libido and enhances a positive attitude towards life.
• Pure raw cocoa: it increases energy, it raises our spirits almost instantly, it favors the sexual appetite, it helps to concentrate… And it is an incredible source of antioxidants.

Remember that a person with a lot of energy and vitality is not only physically strong. He also possesses much more capacity and mental focus and his emotions and thoughts tend to be more positive.