if you thought you needed meat cheese dough in an oven to make pizza then think again today on cooking raw we make raw pizza hi I'm Caroline and I'm Sunita and welcome to cooking raw well well well in the kitchen today I'm going to introduce dr. do it in the beginning dr. Sunita Ray Ray that's right and what do you have your doctorate in Chania educational leadership and policy from uw-madison wonderful wonderful congratulations thank you so when chanita and her brother were children sometimes to celebrate a birthday or if it was just like a Friday or Saturday and I didn't feel like cooking we would do what a pizza we would order pizza and the pizza was filled with a lot of good yummy cheese stuff so but today we are going to make a raw vegan pizza well you're gonna have one today excellent in honor of you receiving your dr. wonderful this piece is gonna be made with buckwheat buckwheat groats Wow awesome and that's the buckwheat groats that you can buy you know at any health food store in bulk in bulk okay and this is what it looks like dry mm-hmm beautiful and what I did for this is that I soaked it now typically when I first learned how to do this everybody was saying soak it for 24 hours and I was soaking for 24 hours and then have all this thick thick liquid and I realized recently that we should only soak it for about 30 minutes to an hour because you're losing a lot of those nutrients because you have to rinse it so I say only self cure buckwheat groats 30 minutes to an hour and then rinse it really real good no longer than that because you're losing a lot of the nutrients when you do that so there that is then we're going to use about a cup of black seed does that really flex it yes it is she just shows up a half a zucchini and we're going to use not all of this but maybe like a third of the carrot and this is some Italian herb blend I like oregano thyme rosemary a lot of that good stuff already in there garlic and garlic to your taste about a half a cup of extra-virgin olive oil and a little bit sea salt to taste so doctor chanita a yes let's get started now why don't we go ahead on and put in a carrot first because we want to chop that up break that up a little bit give me like about a third of that and all this is for the making the crust yes that's enough that's enough for the carrot so we're going to use that we're going to put that in there and then we can go ahead on and add this is about two cups three cups of the buckwheat groats so it's soaked and just plain water you don't add anything to the water no just plain water okay and now we are going to process this okay okay just like that while we're processing this which you do me the honors and chop up the the garlic please does this well this go in the yes yes so before you do that and we'll just do this somebody do that and if you put in a food processor won't it automatically do that that is asking a question okay I just wanted to break that up a little bit so why don't we go ahead and add our garlic beautiful I love garlic and you want to add some sea salt and I'm just going to add some of this Italian herb blend put some of that in there and why don't we go ahead and add our Black Sea yes ground flaxseed put that in there they're just so good for you have one could you use chia seeds in this too you could you most definitely yes yep just pour it in there okay I'm gonna do this not quite all of it just let's see wonderful oh I'm sorry and let's chop up the zucchini now this is absolutely awesome see the whole thing now we're gonna just do that looks like he does now let's taste this it looks like go sounds really good would you add anything else to this maybe a little bit of sea salt okay absolutely something as he as you can see the vegetables have contains its own water and we really don't need any water with the extra virgin olive oil in there add more that oh I think that's good let's just blend this voila here is your piece of crust and I look like piece of crust to me hmm doesn't necessarily look like piece of customi do we have to put in a dehydrator we do we have to put in a dehydrator but before we put in an dehydrator what we're going to do is we are going to spread it out on this cutting board and make it round like pizza and so you could also use this as dehydrating just had it like as bread there are so many things that you can do with this and it's very tasty very healthy if you want to you can add spinach to this yeah tomatoes sun-dried tomato just use your imagination so basically what we're going to do and I'm gonna give you some more cuz I know you can handle that and watch out because there's a garlic so I'm gonna give you that one so basically spread it out yeah usually what's going to happen is that you're gonna have your dehydrator tray I brought my dehydrator haha but I forgot to bring the trace so then my pies so now we're improvising that's right you know nothing stops a chef from doing what it is that she has to do creating her creation so some people would eat this just like this and you can have it raw but I like to dehydrate mine's at a low temperature to have that dough that brilliant texture to it how long do you keep it in the dehydrator keep it in the dehydrator really for about about 1820 hours whew yes okay for let it dehydrate what were you going to say we're going to say if you made them smaller like bite sized most definitely it does then you would then it would reduce the amount of dehydration time right most definitely most definitely and so again viewers have your children in the kitchen with you this would be a great way for them to learn and to appreciate the food just have to be a certain thickness because I think mine a little um about 1/4 to 1/8 I like sort of like a thin crust so it could be sort of crispy and but if you like a thick crust do a thick crust and you see how beautiful it is the color the textures and I just like it that I'm eating healthy that it has all those vegetables in it voila how are you doing with that crust I'm done you're done yes I'm ready for graduation okay soup next we are going to put it in the dehydrator and dehydrate for 18 to 20 hours and then we're going to come back and show you with the finished product we're not going to even go to sleep when we come back we're going to have on the same clothes doctor a yes I don't even say Wow I do you think that's why they say long doctor a you're right you remember the last time you said you wish we there was something they were created to a TV called smellivision yes because doesn't that cross smell absolutely delicious yes you guys should be in this kitchen right now okay now we are going to make our pizza sauce okay really really really raw raw it's very very easy okay so let's get started okay you take some tomatoes roma tomatoes roma tomatoes and I love roma tomatoes because in as much liquid that's right and they have just a lot of meat in them so I'm gonna use like about five roma tomatoes you do that put that in there how many is that - yeah that's just three okay while you're doing that I'm going to add some sun-dried tomato that helps to thicken it up okay put that in there well that's probably like the bottom okay then we're going to add some crushed red peppers and I say to taste which I like so uh-huh so we're gonna start off with I do about a tablespoon and a little bit more okay then which you do the honors crushing the garlic yes yes we have that then while chanita I'm sorry doctor rate is doing a garlic this Italian blend I really I really love this beautiful you can go ahead and ask that and here's a little agave to balance out all of these different flavors strong flavors and Oh apple cider vinegar if you don't have lemon or I'd use episode of vinegar it makes your food tastes really really good so how about about two tablespoons of that beautiful the garlic let's add the garlic what smells really good it really does okay and then we're gonna have about I'm gonna do this red pepper why don't you chop up the celery like you reuse it on the vegetables right right right and to me you know when I'm doing this again everything is just good for the body a lot of vitamins a lot of nutrients and the flavors are just absolutely wonderful I mean my palate has changed an awful lot and I still eat cooked food but I really do like a lot of fresh stuff so we have everything do you need to add this one too no okay now here's the heart work right all right labor intensive okay submit way through we're just gonna stop taste it see if we need to add anything else before we continue our blending beautiful it is you want to taste what do you think anything else you think I love it I love it too is it spicy enough for you it's perfect voila all that hard work homemade pizza sauce awesome very little time and I just can't wait to put it on our buckwheat pizza bread mmmh is that our next step that's our next oh wow it's twenty two hours later whoa I still smell good so what we're going to do now is take out our buckwheat pizza crust okay are you ready for that video okay let's do it let's do it let's do it I think this is absolutely beautiful I actually mean sorry while you were sleeping you were sleeping when I made the third one so but we're just gonna do two here this is what it looks like it's nice viable right it's very pliable and because of the the flax seed and the buckwheat you know it acts like a binder and that's why everything is so pulled together excellent so are you ready I'm ready I'm gonna go get on we're going to start with our pizza sauce so I'm gonna put some pizza sauce over here I can really smell it yes like I like and there you go telling you blend and we just spread that on like so and this is where more creativity can come in because you want and as much or as little as you like most definitely this is your perk pizza your own personal pizza yep you do what you want to do with it and what we're doing is just giving you like examples a guide and here's the thing to remember last season we had did a pesto your pizza would really be good to with make sure you look in our book a mother and daughter diary of raw food recipes for beginners there you go you'll find that recipe in there and then any of the recipes for the dishes that we made on this show you can go to mptv.org to find those most definitely so I'm feeling a little spinach for mine so I'm going to add some spinach and some spinach if you want you can take these you can um cut them up but I'm just gonna leave a hole and just do whatever you want decorate however you want and we have some olives oh girl you quick you Corinne she's a she's speedy hey I see yours so you always to which had to make hers like a masterpiece she just don't like put stuff together this is to make sure that everything is placed appropriately you know just sort of positive part of eating is what is it what do they call it uh how look a presentation sure the presentation and I like for it to look good so put some of that on there and Karen oh she's got some carrots on hers already so I'm I'm gonna tapers this orange bell pepper and I'm going to take this little stuff out take the yellow one and I'm going to slice these julienne style to make our nice colorful pizza and so the main idea is to use the vegetables that you like as much as you like all right this is your pizza you do what you want to do with it and I say bring your kids in the kitchen to your children and again you can make these personal size I'm gonna add and this really takes no time to make as well as long as you have the crust prepared wait there is some prep work involved and that's okay okay do that some black olives and then I had remember we did the Jamaican Jerk mm-hmm and we had that really jerk season so I went back and I made these Portobello Jamaican Jerk dehydrated mushrooms so do what you want and I didn't realize I was going to use them for the pizza and then when I said decided we were going to use to make the pizza I said oh it'll be nice to have some of that on there it looks like blackened deliciousness yes so add some mushrooms you can use shiitake whatever type of mushrooms you wish put some of this on there ah do I want to add anything else you have avocados if you want Hannah oh yes I mean you just act I'm gonna use this one here I'm gonna do that put that on there and just slice these up pineapples might be good on it you know what really I was thinking about doing a fruit pizza to that oats here take that if you want some avocado on your pizza but you know how people have add pineapples through their pizzas mm-hmm you know be a nice little your twist to this I would say that this is a masterpiece I wouldn't really say that oh I agree doctor doctor so we have this but I covered up all of my orange pepper so I'm going to add just a few more orange to this because we got to have some color and wallah but what another thing I wanted to show people is that and that is how you can take your purple eggplant and you can make like small miniature column pizza bread or small miniature like Advertiser pizza that's a good idea I think so and so you just take your eggplant and what you want to do just cut them like 1/4 inch at right and then did you dehydrate these no I did not yet but we're going to okay so but what you do is that you marinate them a little soft for a couple of hours that I that I rinse it off drain it let it drain for another hour or so and then you get to this point where they're nice and pliable but eggplants are very nutritious and healthy for you too so but to make an eggplant pizza bread here all you have to do is this I thought just as the idea when you can sort of top this anyway you want like this any way you want and so then what we're going to do is put it in a dehydrator at about a hundred and ten for about eighteen hours okay and so then I have to four hours then you want to flip them on the other side so the this will be sort of dry okay and then you flip it on the dehydrator trait and then you coat the other side with the pizza sauce so when we come back we're gonna show you what this look like in another 18 hours I'm still gonna had the same clothes on too and still look fabulous I mean amazing and I just want to show you here are the eggplant wait [ _ ] down it sure is nice it's crunchy I mean you can just eat them least like little bites I scare them wherever you go very very delicious very very healthy and if you want to dress them up again for like little appetizers orders be creative you know all the guns whatever it is that you want if you want to make like a little guacamole right put some of those pesto do whatever you want even if you're having like a nice soup that would be absolutely delicious with that mm-hmm or you can have it as a dip with our pizza sauce with the pizza sauce most definitely and here is the pizza and so prior to layering it with all of your toppings if you wanted to you could dehydrate the marinara sauce on there so it can again if you want that won't warm or little cooked filling mm-hmm dehydrate the marinara sauce before you put the topping before you put the toppings on and the toppings another thing that you can do if you wanted to you can marinate your vegetables a little bit mmm in just a little extra virgin olive oil salt sea salt outside of whatever you want be creative this is yours now she need a yes I think we did an excellent job I know we did we did and I hope you do too where can they find these recipes go to wwm PTV org and I think that's a wrap that's a wrap we'll see you next time on cooking raw to order a copy of Caroline and Shania's book a mother and daughter diary of raw food recipes for beginners go to mptv.org and click on store or call to six two seven eight one four nine nine eight you