Thai food is full of flavor and uses coconut in most soups for a great base flavor and thickening agent. Thai is one of the foods I missed being raw.

We used to make Thai, Indian, Japanese and Chinese dishes in our cast iron wok. If you like to stir fry, check out the cast iron woks. They do take some time to get hot, but once they do they cook food wonderfully! We found ours online about 6 years ago and still use it on the BBQ for the kids' favorites. It works much better with the BBQ coals/fire.

Most Thai recipes are cooked and include coconut milk, some kind of seafood and lots of veggies. This recipe conversion was done by Damon and was extremely flavorful.

This is our Raw Thai recipe for Pumpkin and Coconut Soup.


A better close photo of the finished soup with red and green chilies topped with celery seed.

Here's a photo of the recipe from the cookbook.

Raw Thai style Pumpkin and Coconut Soup – Recipe converted to Raw by Damon Siska

1 lb Fresh pumpkin (cleaned and uncooked) Save ½ cup for shredding.

Clove or two Garlic

3 Small shallots

2 Fresh green chilis

2 Tbs Fish sauce (for vegan substitute: soak 1/2 Cup seaweed (any kind) in water for approx 20 mins)

2 tsp Agave

1 ½ Cup Prepared almond milk

1 Cup coconut water from a fresh young thai coconut

Small piece of Ginger (approx. 1 tsp.)

1 Tbs Coconut butter

½ Fresh squeezed lemon, (approx 1-2 Tbs)

1/8 tsp Curry powder

Salt and White Pepper to taste

3 to 4" piece of Fresh lemongrass stalk

1 Sprig of basil for garnish

1 Avocado (for "shrimp")

 

Scrape coconut meat from fresh coconut, use ½ in blended soup base and use noodle tool for other ½ save for final step.

 

Blend pumpkin, garlic, shallots and chilis in blender until smooth. Add all other ingredients except  ½ of saved “noodled” coconut meat and ½ cup shredded pumpkin, blend again until smooth. Add “noodled” coconut meat, shredded pumpkin and basil sprig.

Makes approx 4 servings. Serve immediately. Will keep in refrigerator for several days.

 

“Noodled” coconut meat is made with Ronnie & Chef Minh’s Little Coconut Noodler Tool.

What's your favorite Thai recipe? ... We'd love to try it RAW!