Milwaukee's Celebrity Chef Edition

We are honored to have two delicious recipes from two of Milwaukee’s most exciting chefs. This week’s recipes mark the kick off of our monthly Milwaukee Celebrity Chef Edition!! 

In RAW’s Corner: 

Caroline Carter

Chef Caroline is the co-author of "A Mother and Daughter Diary of Raw Food Recipes for Beginners", the creator of Caroline's Handmade Flax Seed Crackers and Granola, co-host of the Milwaukee Public Television series 'Cooking Raw', and a licensed and certified raw foods chef, instructor, and motivational speaker.   Chef Caroline has undergone extensive raw food training through internationally renowned raw food educational programs. 

In COOKED’s Corner:

Andrew Scheufele

For the last 3 years, Chef Andrew has been the creative power behind the latest dishes and weekly specials at Cafe Lulu, the cornerstone of the Bay View Area’s restaurant and nightlife scene.  LuLu is a funky bar and cafe serving unique hot sandwiches, fresh salads, and a daily soup along with a variety of imported & domestic beers & wines, local & national microbrews, and fun, seasonal specialty drinks. Andrew came up with this exotic recipe the day that David Carradine, legendary Kung Fu Master and actor passed away, thus the name, Kung Fu Tofu.

Raw Recipe 

A la Pesto Pasta……….showing me some love

Equipment:

Food processor

Garnishing machine (use a potato peeler if you do not have this equipment)

Ingredients:

• 1/2  - 1 cup fresh basil leaves
• 3 cups baby spinach leaves
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
• Pinch sea salt
• 1 cup pine or walnuts
• ¼ to ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 3 zucchinis

 Instructions:

1. To prepare the pesto, combine all the ingredients, except the zucchini, in a food processor and pulse a few times to blend.  Do not over process the mixture as it will become too oily.
2. Chop the zucchini in half, widthwise, and place them in the garnishing machine to make the zucchini look like spaghetti.
3. Top the zucchini with the pesto sauce and enjoy!

I eat my fair share of zucchini when they are in season, which is usually between May and July. The creamy flavor of zucchinis is enhanced when combined with the ingredients in this recipe. Zucchinis are filled with vitamins C and A, fiber, potassium, folate and magnesium.

Appetizers that are deliciously Healthy

Caroline Carter

Certified Raw Food Chef Extraordinaire

Healthy Foods Instructor / Consultant

www.edensmarket.com

414-324-5596

Cooked Recipe

Kung Fu Tofu

Requires a trip to your local asian grocery

Ingredients

1 bottle Sesame Oil

6 Garlic cloves

1 can Masaman Curry 4oz

2 can Coconut milk 13.5oz

1 gal Veggie stock

2 Limes

2-3 stalks Lemongrass

3 Lime Leaves

1 Tb Palm Sugar

2oz Thai basil

1 bunch Cilantro

1-2 packages extra firm Tofu 1#

Red Pepper Flakes

12 Button Mushrooms

2 bunches Scallions 

Directions

Smash garlic cloves with the side of a knife blade and peel. In a large stock pot heat 1 oz of sesame oil and add garlic cloves. Sautee for about 5 minutes (do not let the oil get too hot or it will burn). Remove and reserve garlic. Add curry to oil and cook until fragrant.

Add coconut milk and stock. Turn up stove to high heat, and juice limes, add to broth. Cut Lemon grass into fourths or fifths(or whatever will fit in your pot), smash open with the blunt side of a heavy knife, and add to broth. Add lime leaves and garlic.

Simmer for 20 minutes. Turn off heat. Add Cilantro and basil. Let steep for 5 minutes. Strain.

Press and drain tofu. Cut into cubes and sauté in sesame oil and red pepper flakes. Use as much or as few pepper flakes as you desire.

Slice mushrooms and scallions as thinly as possible.

To serve soup, ladle broth into bowls, add tofu, mushroom, and scallion.

Substitutions…

Regular basil can be used instead of thai.

1 tb maple syrup and 1 tb brown sugar, combined, can be used in place of palm sugar.

Any curry you desire can be used in place of masaman.

Andrew Scheufele- Head Chef

Cafe Lulu in Milwaukee- (Bay View Area)

www.lulubayview.com

Facebook Page- 

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