A few weeks ago I attended the IDEA Conference in Los Angeles. It’s a conference for fitness professionals and I attended sessions about new exercises, modification and nutrition.
That experience left me inspired and excited to share with the class you. One of the sessions was “Perfecting Performance Fueling – Pre and Post Workout”. In the session the RD talked about sprouting raw nuts and seeds. This makes them easier to digest and make it easier for your body to absorb the nutrients from them.
For more on soaking nuts check out The Nourishing Gourmet’s post on it.
Since I have tiny-heartitis I only LOVE 16 things in this world and Sriracha and cashews are two of those things. So, while the RD was talking about creamy cashew sauce as dessert I was dreaming up this…
Spicy Cashew Sauce Recipe
It is super easy, healthy and you’ll feel all hippy-like because it’s raw, and gluten free. So make this and you’ll live ‘til you’re 126 and then when all your friends who don’t eat raw-gluten free are dead you can be smug but it won’t bug anyone because they’re in Heaven.
Ingredients:
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1 cup raw cashews
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salt & pepper
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minced garlic (I used 3/4 Tb.)
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1-2 Tb. Sriracha
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water
Soak your nuts overnight in enough water to cover them and a dash of salt. Don’t soak much longer than overnight as cashews tend to get weird.
Drain/dump the soaking water and place cashews, 1 Tb Sriracha, garlic and 2 Tb water in blender. (*This is my new Blendtec- thoughts coming soon.)
Start with 1 Tb of Sriracha and 2 Tb water. Add more to reach desired spice and consistency. I used 2 Tb. of Sriracha, but my peep thought that was too hot. I wanted half of the batch thick for dip and then I added a little more water for a sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Dip your quesadilla, veggies, fingers in it and enjoy!
Seriously, I’ve been putting it on everything. I chopped up some baked chicken and tossed it in a big dollop of the cashew sauce for a Spicy Cashew Chicken. Garnish with a few extra cashews and Tito’s your uncle.
Now put some sauce on your burrito bay-bee and enjoy!
Question: Spicy, Medium or Mild?
I really relly enjoy your page, Monica. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing recipes, I find alot of inspiration here on your blog. Keep up the awsome work!! 🙂
Thank you 🙂
That chicken looks so good! Can’t wait to make this. 🙂
Well that looks awesome! My food processor shit the bed in May and I have been too lazy / cheap to buy a new one. It is on my Christmas list so only a few more months…
Spicy and the spicier the better.
I love to munch on oven roasted cashews – my fav snack!
SPICY! That looks yummy. Hope you like the Blendtec. I have the vitamix and have heard the blendtec is even better!
I’m definitely a mild girl! I can’t handle the heat!
Oh yum…I can’t eat hummus on Whole 30, but I sure can eat some cashews…extra spicy please…I like a little nose run with my food 🙂
I cannot wait to make this! I love sriracha and cashews, this is a perfect marriage. Thanks for retweeting my Run 10, Feed 10 tweet last week, I can remember if I thanked you a twitter. I have no idea what I am doing on there and I am a total twitwit.
I don’t like cashews or spicy things – but I love that you can make awesome recipes on the spot. It looks yummy 🙂
This sounds absolutely delicious & will be made soon! Think a food processor would work in place of the blender?
& for me – the more sriracha, the better!!
This is perfect for when I don’t want to eat hummus. But since that’ll never happen I don’t know when I’ll end up eating it.
so it’s basically… like cashew hummus?
Ooh this looks like something easy enough for me to make! I love sriracha and I put it on everything. The hotter the better!
Holy yum. This looks crazy easy! And hot, always hot. There is no other way!
Medium! That looks so YUM!
Spicy. Always. If I don’t cry when I eat it’s a wasted effort.
Spicy, spicy!
Looks great with the chicken 😉
Medium!
Spicy all the way! Can’t wait to try this.
I like it SPICAY 😀
I love cashews! I’m going to try this.
I used to be mild, now I’m medium, and hope one day to be spicy. I’m getting there.
Cashews are fantastic and this sounds so yummy! Especially that cashew chicken. Yeah, I’m giving it a try!
Whatever is below mild.
I love Sriracha and this looks amazing. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This looks so good! Spicy all the way! The spicier the better.
every time I hear the word burrito, I sing that song to myself. i’m glad i’m not alone. i’m going to have to try this out! the chicken looks really good!
spicy-ness depends on my mood. sometimes I like it hot.. sometimes i’m more mild.
Mmmmmm such a good recipe! I thought there’d be Sriracha in here! Totally making this!