Make homemade seed-sour cream!

If you are vegan, you will avoid food of animal origin for ethical reasons. If you are milk-sensitive, you do not consume dairy products because of your health. But what about the layed potatoes, cabbage or noodles you used to pour rich with sour cream?

Fortunately, you don’t have to abandon your usual meals even if traditional sour cream can already be forgotten. It’s much healthier, and you can make very delicious vegetable varieties at home, in just a few minutes. Your family, your wallet and your digestive tract will all be happy about it! Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a US physician and nutritionist, does not accidentally recommend that let’s have raw, oily seeds in our diet with moderate but daily nutrition. You will need some basic materials and a coffee grinder. Get some oily seed - the sunflower seeds, the cashew nuts are excellent for making sour cream, but you can also experiment with almonds, hazelnuts or pumpkin seeds without shelling. Buy also a lemon and you can end up with the list of ingredients. If you like the more intense flavors, you may use some mustard and green herbs.

Put one or two handful of the selected seeds in the coffee grinder, ground to a very fine texture. Pour into a mug and add enough lukewarm water to get a thick mass. Mix homogeneously, add some drops of lemon juice, and if you want, taste it with a little mustard or fresh or dried green herbs. You can control the density of your seed-sour cream by the amount of water you add. You’re ready, store it in the fridge for several days.

You can use it as a top of sour cream food, but if you make it thicker, you can make replace with mayonnaise. Whole grain biscuits, vegetable meatloaf and seed-mayonnaise: Your vegan burgers are ready! You will never get bored of it, because with the alternation of the seeds, the result will be a different kind of seed sour cream or mayonnaise. Though vegetable unprocessed fat is healthier than animal, saturated fats, but doesn’t overdo it with seed-sour cream. Just add on your plate, which adorns and flavors.

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