Raw Vegetable Pad Thai Salad

Ashamedly, I love hearing about the newest health food craze. I even recently bought two litres of aloe vera juice thinking I was pre-empting the 'next big thing'. Damn you, Holland and Barrett one penny sale. I'll now be taking teaspoonfuls of the stuff until the day I die.

As you might have been aware, one of the latest trends was to eat everything raw, or, as the advocates preached via glossy instagram snaps: 'as nature intended it'. So obviously, and fairly self-consciously, I gave it a go.

Here is the recipe for a raw pad thai vegetable salad that was actually delicious. Honest.

p.s. I don't own a spiraliser, for some reason I'll buy aloe vera but not utensils - so just use a peeler/chop finely and keep going at it, you'll feel like you've earned it more that way.

Ingredients:

- 1 courgette, spiralised/peeled/julienned (you just want thin strips of it)
- 1/2 a red cabbage, thinly sliced
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 carrot peeled/thinly sliced
- 200g peeled broad beans
- handful of sesame seeds

For the sauce:

- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1 thinly sliced garlic clove

All you do is: in a large bowl mix together all the prepped veg, in another mix together the sauce, pour over, and scatter with sesame seeds.

It's super yum, healthy and pretty filling. Although I have an insatiable appetite and so had mine with some homemade pitta and aubergine dip on the side. No-one likes to be hungry.

Enjoy!

- J