It’s the new year, Beauties, and I am so excited to kick it off right with a round of healthy, mouthwatering new recipes for you! One of the best ways to achieve your health and beauty goals is to start in your kitchen. Find interesting and inspiring recipes, like my Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto, and add it into your rotation of meals to make! This is so important to keep mealtime fun while working towards your goals. Using a variety of foods in your recipes, like nutty roasted cauliflower and creamy vegan pesto, helps amplify your beauty, while keeping you on track to achieve all your wellness dreams!
Prioritizing Yourself
Before I dive into the inspiration behind creating my delicious Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto with you, I want to first off congratulate you for showing up and being here with me. You’ve made the choice to slow down and learn a new recipe. And what a wonderful gift that is! Creating nutritious and delicious meals for yourself means that you are taking the right steps to prioritize yourself. Give yourself a high five! You deserve to feel good and cooking with whole, plant-based foods is one of the best ways to get there!
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Detoxifying Roasted Cauliflower
So very often I see the fantastic cauliflower placed out on a veggie platter raw and waiting to be consumed. This nutty and somewhat sweet cruciferous vegetable is actually one of my favorite veggies to enjoy cooked or roasted, as in my Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto recipe. I personally like cauliflower better cooked, both from a taste perspective and for digestion. Being in the cruciferous veggie family, cooked cauliflower reduces its gas-inducing qualities. The same goes for other vegetables like broccoli and Brussels sprouts!
My Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto can actually help your body’s ability to detoxify in numerous ways. This is because cauliflower has antioxidants that support detoxification and glucosinolates that help to activate detoxification enzymes. And we need all the help detoxing that we can get! Americans consume more than 60% of their dietary intake from processed foods, artificial flavors, hormone-laden meats, and toxic dairy supplies on a regular basis! Let’s not forget about alcohol and caffeine, which are also so toxic to our overall systems.
Remember, your body is a natural detox machine!
You just have to be mindful of what you put in it and how you treat it. If you are looking for an extra boost, I created my Feel Good Detoxy 2.0 as a completely natural and holistic aid, whether for travel or daily life, that helps keep the body running clean. It’s 100% vegan, gluten-free and non-toxic; after all, I only create and recommend things that I use in my own body.
Feel Good Detoxy 2.0 gently aids in the elimination of daily toxins in a safe and effective way with no harsh or irritating herbs that create discomfort or dependency. It works by delivering more oxygen to your colon and overall body, loosening toxins and acidic waste in your colon and helping to transport it out via elimination. Oxygen, delivered this way, improves detoxification and supports the growth of friendly bacteria which leads to better digestive and intestinal health and increased vitality.
Cauliflower is good for more than just detoxing. It has amazing beautifying effects too. Its anti-inflammatory properties are key for glowing skin. The fantastic nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and many other phytochemicals, are just one other reason behind my inspiration for this Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto recipe. One serving will provide 77% of your vitamin C, 20% of vitamin K, 10% or more of vitamin B-6 and folate needs for the day. On top of that, this recipe includes smaller amounts of thiamin, riboflavin and niacin. Let me not forget it also boosts heart health and improves brainpower!
Nourishing Vegan Pesto
Creamy, vibrant and fresh, my Avocado Vegan Kale Pesto is full of healthy flavor! Unlike most pesto recipes, it does not contain digestion-destroying dairy or heavy oils. Packed full of luscious and rich avocado, and power-boosting kale, this vegan pesto recipe is like no other! It is so yummy and simple to make. Plus it goes so well with just about everything – especially roasted cauliflower!
The raw plant fat in an avocado really brings this vegan pesto recipe to the next level! Avocados’ abundant monounsaturated fats are the ideal moisturizer for the skin and the perfect creamy addition to tasty pesto. It is nutrient-dense per serving, making a little go a long way. Plus it’s an amazing helper to your digestion! It’s nice to know that the fats from the avocado will help our guts out. It does this by lubricating the digestive tract. This, in turn, promotes the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins in your tissues, further making your cellular membranes stronger.
Hidden Sources of Protein
Now you might be thinking, where is the protein in Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto? We are all so often trained to think that protein is necessary with every dish. But a lot of times, all the building blocks for protein are right before your eyes, like in this vegan pesto recipe!
Do you know that avocado has one of the highest amino acid contents of all fruits? Well it sure does! Avocados contain an amino acid known as glutamine, which helps to protect your skin and build your strength. Beauty and power-boosting? Yes, please! Now you can rest assured knowing that you are getting a little power protein in with this dish, without the damaging effects that other proteins cause on our body.
While we are on the topic of protein power, there is one other major ingredient in this vegan pesto that really helps boost your energy! And this so happens to be one of my favorite greens ever: kale. Kale is a major strengthening food for your body, making it the perfect addition to my vegan pesto recipe. Like avocado, kale also provides an amazing source of amino acids which are assimilated into the body and built into protein. I noticed a big change in my body when I started consuming kale on a regular basis, like watching muscles develop in places I had never seen before. Including kale into your life will not only boost your energy but also help you tone up.
Recipe Prep
I just love the robust flavor of my Avocado Vegan Kale Pesto recipe and I sure hope you will too! When prepping this pesto, be sure to use fresh basil leaves to really make the flavor pop. You can even add in a little nutritional yeast if you want to make it a little cheesy. This pesto stays good in the fridge for 48 hours, but you may want to double your batch if you are hoping to have extra! :) It tastes so delicious as a topping on salads. You can even add a dollop or two with your favorite stew. Yum!
Serve up my Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto recipe for lunch or dinner this week and give yourself a huge hug! You made a new recipe – congratulations! That is a beautiful step to take in prioritizing your health this new year and you should be so proud. I hope you achieve all of your wellness goals this year. And don’t forget to check in next week for another new vegan recipe.
Roast Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto
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Roasted Cauliflower Steak with Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto
Ingredients
- 1 large cauliflower head
- 1 Tbs. coconut oil
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 1 lemon freshly juiced about 4 Tbs.
- ½ cup chopped kale
- ½ cup fresh basil tightly packed
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt or more to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- Cut off the cauliflower stems and slice the cauliflower into ½ inch steaks.
- Lightly drizzle coconut oil the cauliflower and top with freshly ground black pepper.
- Transfer cauliflower steaks onto a nonstick pan and roast in the oven for 10 minutes on each side, until golden.
- While it is roasting, pull out a food processor and prepare your pesto.
- Add the kale, basil and lemon juice, and process until greens are broken down a bit. Add avocado and salt, and process until smooth. Taste the pesto, and adjust seasonings.
- Take the cauliflower out of your oven and transfer it to your favorite plate. Garnish with a serving of your Avocado Kale Vegan Pesto and enjoy it!
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Lots of love Beauties!
Perfect summer Sunday afternoon meal <3 Thank you! The pesto came out tangy and flavorful, and the pairing with roast cauliflower (so good on its own!) is hearty and delicious without being heavy. Yum!