Raw Food: Lemon Pudding (Banana Base)
"Delicious pudding in minutes, with all natural ingredients! I just started looking into the Raw Food Movement, but I've been trying to avoid highly processed foods for a while now. Standard pudding is on of the worst offenders, where processed foods are concerned. Raw Foodists make pudding using bananas or avocados for base. I've tried both, but I prefer the banana "puddings.""
photo by Nourished Homestead
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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1
ingredients
- 1 banana
- 1⁄2 tablespoon honey or 1/2 tablespoon agave nectar
- 1 -2 tablespoon unsweetened flaked coconut
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice (from about 1/2 of a small lemon)
- 1⁄2 tablespoon olive oil (optional) or 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil (optional)
directions
- Mash the banana with a fork.
- Mix in the rest of the ingredients with a spoon.
- Alternatively, process all ingredients in a food processor until mixed.
- Note: Some people use pitted mejool dates instead of honey or another sweetener. I prefer a liquid sweetener, since the dates don't give a very smooth texture in the final product. If you want to use dates, one should be enough in this recipe.
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Reviews
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Don't want to put anyone off from trying this but it tasted exactly like what it is. Pureed banana with a tiny hint of lemon. -
Good stuff...I have made this a bunch of times...I've used it as a pudding pie filling with a raw nut crust and also like spoons of the stuff in my green smoothies -I have tried all three suggestions as as the sweetener and my favorite is a mix of raw honey and then {the little piggy that i am ;)} I like to add some chopped dates too!!! _I enjoy the lemon and always add extra as well as tons of zest and extra shreds {{I'm a piggy who likes texture in her puddin' ;) }} ...in my most recent experiment with this I juiced a coconut and used a ton of the pulp in with the rest on the lemon-'nana blend then poured the mixture into ice trays (along with coconut cream to run through the juicer again to make raw "soft serve-like" ice cream YAY!:)..,.de-lish - good stuff!!:) **edit to add... always at least double this ;)
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I loved this! I started with just the banana and lemon juice and that was very good. I went on to try the coconut and honey, and it was good that way too! Really delicious and easy to make! Thanks! Reviewed for Healthy Choices ABC Tag. -
Woweee this is great, fantastic for those sweet tooth cravings but not loaded with fat & sugar like my usual "go to", chocolate. What a great idea! Thanks for posting! -
This raw food pudding was just something I picked so I could try out my new blender, but it turned out to be really good! It's surprisingly tasty considering how simple it is.
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I'd describe myself as enthusiastic and sometimes eccentric. I teach English in China, and it's an awesome job. As for my cooking philosophy, I like easy things that might take a long time to cook, but only need occasional tending (like bread or dals). Lately, I've been very interested in healthy substitutions to make dishes with less fat and/or more fiber. I've been experimenting with making tasty recipes that are free of processed sugars and flour. Since moving to China, I've found myself without an oven and without access to common ingredients, like Bisquick and vanilla ext., so I'm currently looking for breads or cakes that I can cook in a crockpot. I only post recipes that I have tried, and many are recipes that I have created myself.
