Culinary Nutritionist Amie Valpone sent me an advance copy of new her book and I think it’s something many of you might be interested in.
Sunrise Nori Wraps with Spicy Tahini Drizzle from Eating Clean by Amie Valpone
Why Amie Valpone Wrote Her New Book, Eating Clean – on sale March 8, 2016
It’s time to think not just outside the box, but out of the bag and the can as well. With Amie Valpone’s EATING CLEAN: The 21-Day Plan to Detox, Fight inflammation and Reset Your Body (on sale March 8th, 2016) readers learn how to get on a path to better health and wellness by eating whole natural foods and eliminating toxins from their diet.
As a healthy woman in her mid-twenties, Amie Valpone’s life turned upside down when she found herself nearly bedridden, suffering from a range of ailments, and utterly without a conclusive diagnosis. And then, with a complete and total detox, Amie Valpone healed herself. In her first book, EATING CLEAN, Valpone—now a Culinary Nutritionist—shares her incredible success in ridding her body of illness and reclaiming her life. EATING CLEAN is the complete guide to cleaner living, and it includes a 21-day Elimination Diet, a two-week meal plan, more than 200 sumptuous recipes free of gluten, dairy, soy and sugar and a guide to cleaning up your home environment for healthier living.
Dr. Mark Hyman Endorses Eating Clean
In his foreword, Dr. Mark Hyman (nine-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, founder and medical director of The Ultra Wellness Center and Director at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine) writes: “If you struggle with toxicity and all its miseries, I’d love to work with you at my practice, but I realize not everyone can do that. That’s why I’d like to ‘prescribe’ Amie Valpone’s Eating Clean, which becomes the next best thing to a functional doctor visit.”
With her 21-day Elimination Diet, Valpone gives her best tips to kickstart the food and lifestyle transformation that comes from clean eating long-term. By switching from foods that trigger sugar cravings, chronic symptoms, and other imbalances to fresh ingredients that feed good bacteria, reduce inflammation, improve the ability to fight off pathogens, and lose weight, Valpone makes the detox experience one of abundance instead of deprivation. While going through the 21-day Elimination Diet, readers are encouraged to fill out a journal each day of what they ate, how they felt, and coping techniques they used for a thoughtful and lasting behavioral modification.
Amy provides this recipe from her book:
Sunrise Nori Wraps with Spicy Tahini Drizzle
Text excerpted from EATING CLEAN, © 2016 by AMIE VALPONE. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
If you like California rolls, you’ll love these nori wraps (though personally, I think they’re so much better!). The tahini dressing is truly addictive—you’re going to want to dress everything in it—and the cabbage provides a nice crunch. If possible, use a food processor to slice the cabbage so you can get it super thin. Also, make sure the vegetable strips are all the same width and length so that they don’t hang over the edges of the nori sheets; this will make rolling up the wraps easier. Use leftover tahini drizzle as a dressing for salads or as a dip for crudités.
Sunrise Nori Wraps
4 nori seaweed sheets
¼ small head red cabbage, very thinly sliced
1 large carrot, peeled and julienned
1 small yellow summer squash, julienned
1 small cucumber, julienned
1 large ripe avocado, pitted, peeled, and sliced
1 recipe Spicy Tahini Drizzle
Spicy Tahini Drizzle
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 ¼ tablespoons chickpea miso paste
1 tablespoon raw tahini
2 medjool dates, pitted
1 garlic clove, minced
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Water, as needed to thin the drizzle
[1] Place the nori sheets on a flat surface. Divide the cabbage, carrot, squash, cucumber, and avocado among the sheets. Top each pile of vegetables with a heaping tablespoon of the Spicy Tahini Drizzle, and then roll up the nori sheets into a tube shape.
[2] Make the tahini: Combine all of the ingredients except the water in a blender. Blend, adding water 1 teaspoon at a time as you go, until the mixture becomes a thin sauce. Serves 4
For more information about Amy and her work, go to http://thehealthyapple.com/books/eating-clean
