If you haven’t had a chance to check out a Life Alive restaurant yet, you’ve got to try some of their healthy and tasty vegetarian cuisine! They have locations in Cambridge, Lowell, and Salem, Mass.
Here’s my attempt at a knockoff of my favorite Life Alive dish, “The Swami”
The Wannabe Swami
Serves 4:
4 big handfuls of kale
1/2 cup tamari almonds
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 package broccoli slaw
1-2 cups broccoli
Steam everything above until desired tenderness, then mix in curry miso sauce and warm up if necessary if dressing is coming from the fridge.
Curry miso sauce*:
Makes 1 cup
2 tsp fresh ginger
2 lg garlic cloves
2 Tbs miso paste (white miso)
1 ½ Tbs honey**
1 tsp curry powder
1/3 cup rice vinegar
1/3 cup cold water
½ cup canola or other oil
Combine the sauce ingredients in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Serve or refrigerate until needed.
(for 4 servings I would probably use all of it.)
Optional – May add 1 hard boiled egg to each plate for protein
Serve over quinoa with a sprinkle of nutritional yeast
*Can also be used as salad dressing and stored in the fridge up to one week.
** Could substitute agave to make this recipe vegan
Hi Andrea! I made a version of this yesterday and when I was trying to find the original link via google, I came across your version! I’ll definitely be trying yours next time. Life Alive is amazingly delicious.
How cool that you came across my blog! Heads up, since I posted this, I heard there is also Nama Shoyu in the sauce. And possibly Mirin instead of rice vinegar. But overall this recipe is good, I make it all the time. Often I just keep the sauce in the fridge, and use it on a little steamed kale when I want to get my greens. Thanks for reading and commenting!
I am so happy to have found your recipe for this! This is my favorite dish at Life Alive and it’s awesome that I can recreate it at home. Thank you so much.
I hope you enjoy it! It’s funny, I had the Swami at Life Alive over the weekend and I was thinking that theirs tastes pretty different than mine. But mine is still good!!
I think theirs has soy sauce in it…