Juice up your life
October 2017
By Muskaan Sharma
Raw Rasoi Everyday Juices
by Rupinder Kaur
Notion Press
Hardcover
INR 899; pages 122
Rupinder Kaur’s Raw Rasoi Everyday Juices presents itself as the perfect guide to help you embark upon a raw food journey. An excellent manual for creating everyday juices, the book doubles up as a beginner’s handbook for switching to a vegan diet.
Raw Rasoi is based on the concept of consuming raw vegan food to eradicate dietary issues from daily life. Filled with recipes to create simple and tasteful juices all year round, the book is a revelation for those seeking to add an organic and healthy aspect to their daily diet.
Rupinder undertook the initiative to include raw food in her diet after failing to resolve her own ailments. In 2012, she was diagnosed with jaundice which left her bedridden for months. When allopathic medicine failed to provide relief, she took matters in her own hands. By consuming raw fruits everyday and juicing combinations of them regularly, she paved the way to her own healing. She then went on to create www.rawrasoi.com on the insistence of family and friends.
Focusing on the nutritional needs of a family, especially young children, the book is far from being a mere collection of recipes. Apart from delicious and well-combined recipes for fruit and vegetable juices, it also includes detailed instructions on storing and utilising the fresh produce. The book contains tips on finding the right juicer according to functionality and need, as well as juicing techniques to extract maximum nutrients from fruits and vegetables. Detailed instructions on how to store and consume the juices while keeping in mind everyday body requirements can also be found in the book. Separate sections are devoted to list out various local and exotic fruits, spices and vegetables including greens and root vegetables along with their nutritional values and defining tastes.
Apart from juices, the epilogue of the book talks about using the leftover pulp from vegetable and fruit juices for making body scrubs and dips. Kaur’s holistic approach towards raw veganism and the use of local and fresh ingredients that are gluten, dairy and oil free in all her recipes makes this book a must-read. This compact yet comprehensive guide is sure to make you want to add delicious raw juices to your daily diet.