Brutus Dressing Recipe – a Replacement for Raw Vegan Caesar Salad Dressing?

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using a simplification of a raw vegan Caesar salad dressing recipe. This past Friday, I had a chance to go to a very unique raw food potluck. I brought a “Caesar Salad” with raw vegan croutons that I purchased from OrganicLives. My friend M. asked for the recipe for the dressing, so here it is

Equipment

• Mini-prep Food Processor or Blender (small blender is best)

Ingredients

• 1 cup raw organic pine nuts
• juice of 1/2-1 medium or large organic lemon
• 1 medium or large clove of garlic
• 1 tsp kelp powder
• 1 tsp salt (sea salt or Himalayan salt is best)
• 1 Tbsp cold-pressed organic extra virgin unfiltered olive oil
• 1/4 cup filtered water (reserved)
• 1 date (e.g., Medjool or Hunza dates)
• organic black pepper (to taste)

Directions

1. Add all the ingredients except the reserved water and black pepper to your mini-prep or blender.
2. Blend all the ingredients, adding 1 Tbsp at a time of reserved water until you reach the desired consistency
3. Mix in ground black organic black pepper at this point, or later after tossing with Romain lettuce greens, etc.
4. Enjoy!

The dressing should keep for a few days sealed & refrigerated, but it’s always best to use it up fast. Toss with Romain lettuce greens for a “Caesar Salad”. If you have raw vegan croutons available, add them as well as it will take your raw vegan Caesar salad to the next level. I’ve also used the Brutus dressing on spiralized root vegetables and on a kelp noodles salad.

Some other notes:

• Regarding the kelp powder, you can purchase ground kelp powder, but you may have better results by grinding your own sun-dried kelp strips.
• If you are going to be serving the dressing with a dish that you will share with people who may find raw garlic too intense, consider de-veining the garlic clove. I usually de-vein garlic for any dishes I bring to potlucks.
• If you make a very thick dressing, it can be used as a Caesar-like veggie dip
• The dressing will thicken in the refrigerator. Add a little freshly squeezed lemon juice or filtered water to thin if desired.
• You can purchase raw organic pine nuts, dates, Himalayan salt, Peruvian raw organic olive oil, etc., from OrganicLives (1829 Quebec Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada).

I hope you have some success with the Brutus dressing recipe. Please share your modifications/improvements in the comments section of this post.

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