July 21, 2014
(last updated May 6, 2023) 
This raw cashew banana yogurt is one of the recipes I’m most proud of from my cookbook. It’s tart, sweet, and satisfying, and it’s the sort of recipe that’s so easy and sensible that, after you prepare it, you’ll wonder why the idea never occurred to you before. I’ve had many vegan yogurt experiments, most of them involving coconut (one with young Thai coconut, which you can find here, and another with coconut cream, which you can find here). I like them both, but I will admit that this is my favorite homemade vegan yogurt recipe. I was delighted when it came together for the book, and I’m delighted to share it with you all now.
Raw Cashew Banana Yogurt from Choosing Raw
Author -Ingredients
- 1 cup cashews soaked for 2 hours or more, then drained
- 2 large bananas
- 1 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2/3 cup coconut water 1/2 cup if you’re using a food processor
- 1 pinch sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon probiotic powder optional; you can simply open up a few probiotic capsules for this!
Instructions
- Blend all the ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth. Alternatively, place all the ingredients, except the coconut water, in a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Turn the motor on and drizzle in the coconut water in a thin stream. Keep processing until the mixture is very smooth. Stored in an airtight container in the fridge, the yogurt will keep for 2 days. From Choosing Raw by Gena Hamshaw. Reprinted with permission from Da Capo Lifelong, © 2014.
The yogurt is great plain, but I also love it with some raw granola (especially my raw cocoa crunch granola or my beet and hemp granola) or some fresh berries. Amanda, who recently reviewed the book, featured the recipe, and her husband took some incredible images. I can’t help sharing them!
Beautiful work, Amanda and Aaron!
So, hey. It occurs to me that the book has now officially been published for three weeks. And I have yet to offer my readers–the folks whom I wrote this book for–a couple of free copies. Clearly, this must be fixed. There would be no book without this blog and the folks who have kindly, critically, and intelligently supported and engaged with it for so long.
Tonight, I’m running a giveaway for five copies of Choosing Raw, the book. I hope that the book finds its way into hands of readers who will enjoy it, and feel inspired by the images and information inside. The giveaway will run until August 4–two weeks from today. Enter below!
As I’ve said before, the real joy of this book wasn’t in recipe development (though I did love that). It was in sharing nutrition information, responding to some common myths and misconceptions about vegan and raw diets, and in formulating 21 days of wholesome, flavorful, and accessible meal plans, all of which will give you a sense of how to seamlessly integrate raw and cooked vegan fare. I hope you’ll enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it. Good luck!
And see you tomorrow.
xo
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Categories: Recipes,
Breakfast,
Side Dishes,
Vegan Basics
Method: Blender
Ingredients: Cashew Nuts
Dietary Preferences: Gluten Free, No Oil, Raw, Soy Free, Vegan
Recipe Features: 30 Minute or Less, Quick & Easy
Method: Blender
Ingredients: Cashew Nuts
Dietary Preferences: Gluten Free, No Oil, Raw, Soy Free, Vegan
Recipe Features: 30 Minute or Less, Quick & Easy
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I’ve always meant to try vegan cashew whipped cream. can’t wait to try out this recipe?
I’ve been meaning to try making vegan yoghurt but all the recipes I found always seemed so intimidating. Thank you for creating one so straightforward! I will definitely have a go at making this very soon 🙂
A few months ago I attempted raw cashew cream and loved it. Now I’d love to make raw almond butter!
I’ve never made my own yogurt before! I used to eat yogurt every morning before switching to a vegan/plant-based diet. Your raw yogurt recipe is certainly one I’ve never tried and would love to make at home.
The cashews will be soaking shortly for this recipe! Thank you for the inspiration 🙂
Hello,
First of all, congratulations for your beautiful blog!
What I’d like to try at home is to make my own cashew cheese. Yummy!
Thanks for your great recipes and the inspiration.
I’ve been meaning to try a refreshing and creamy matcha drink.
I would love to try and make raw ice cream!
I would love to make a raw key lime pie, especially during this hot summer weather. It sounds amazingly refreshing. 🙂 Creating raw treats is a bit intimidating to me, but your cookbook seems like a great guidebook!
I need to make more raw nut milks! hemp milk is definitely on the agenda!
Before I became vegan, I used to love yogurt. Now I can easily enjoy it with this recipe! One raw dish that I would be interested in trying is chia pudding; I think it would be a great way to switch up my breakfast routine.
I would like to but have never, try making a nut butter
I would love to try this yogurt and your raw cheesecake. Both look delicious!
Raw yogurt has been on my to make list. But really, I’ll eat anything with probiotics. I just love the tang!
This is the least complicated vegan yogurt recipe I’ve come across! I’m excited to try it!
I have loved your recipes and site for a long while now and look forward to trying this tasty sounding recipe ((Yet again 🙂 ))
I love simple raw recipes that show off their flavours…
Ohhhh I can’t wait to try this! I love yogurt but am trying to eat less dairy, so this is perfect 🙂
I’m very interested in experimenting with vegan cheeses.
To be honest the raw food recipe that has been on my cards for a while now, is a raw spin on pastries – a savory pie 🙂 Not a berry tart, or raw layer fruit pie – but an honest-to-goodness hale-and-hearty raw savory pie 😀
One raw food recipe that I have yet to try is the one for your raw cashew cheese. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of your book! And congratulations to you!
This is so great and easy to make! I love that cashews can be used in so many ways!
I would love to make a raw vegan cheesecake! 🙂
Definitely trying! Thanks for the recipe!
I’ve never made raw yogurt at home, which looks delish, but I would have to go with raw brownies.
One raw recipe I want to try the most is making raw cheesecakes/tarts! I love buying them from Whole Foods, but I know I can easily make them at home 🙂
I’ve never made raw yogurt at home, this looks delish. But I think I’d go with raw brownies.
I’ve never actually tried a cashew-based dessert (like raw cheesecake)…it’s been on my bucket list for ages!
I can’t wait to try this recipe!
Sounds delish!!
Aaron and I are so flattered that you love the photos! Your yogurt recipe is now a weekly staple for us. xoxo
I want to try making raw cupcakes with coconut flour.
I would like to make a raw chocolate cake some day.
What is your probiotic powder of choice?
I have never made raw crackers in the dehydrator. That sounds very interesting and I will have to try it. Your new book looks like one I will have to have. Also, I just LOVE your Weekend Reading part of your blog. I have learned so much from it.
With the exception of salads, sandwiches and the like, I don’t think I’ve ever made anything that creative in terms of something “raw.” I would like to try my hand at a few different things though, so this cookbook is on my Amazon wish list!
One raw recipe I have yet to try is cheesecake. However, I am sure there are more- I just need them to cross my path 🙂
I have never made raw yogurt! Would love to try this recipe.
I’ve always wanted to try making raw energy bars (copycat larabars) but until I have a food processor that probably won’t happen 😛
My own nut milk! Which I am actually going to make today! I am pretty excited, haha 😉
Raw Pad Thai
noodle dished with veggies 😀
I’m completely new to raw recipes, so I’m sure trying anything in the book would be fun for me! Nut butter would be pretty cool, for sure.
I’ve been hoping to make some raw granola bars/larabars and choc chip cookies soon!
I’ve been wanting to make kombucha!
Yet another fab recipe I’ve bookmarked to try. Thanks for the giveaway!
Congratulations on your beautiful book! I am certainly keeping my fingers crossed to win my very own copy!
I’d like to try to make kombucha!
I would like to try making raw nut milk at home, especially hazelnut. Also cashew but cheese sounds interesting!
Your book looks amazing, especially the 21 day menu plan – congratulations!
I have always wanted to try making raw granola with buckwheat. I just have never gotten around to it because I don’t have a dehydrator (yet!)
I shy away from a lot of raw recipes because I’m allergic to tree nuts. I keep meaning to try a sunflower seed pate instead.
This looks fantastic. Cashews and bananas are two of my favourite staples! Awesome alternative to dairy right there 🙂
I would love a copy of this book 🙂
I love this! I had always been too intimidated to make my own yogurt, but this is totally manageable!
I can’t wait to make this recipe at home! Thanks for sharing! I would love to make raw kale chips at home. It would probably be cheaper!
Zucchini noodles. Thanks for the giveaway and congrats on the book!
Incredibly, I’ve never made kale chips. As a person who doesn’t have a dehydrator and frequently sets her oven on fire (usually making flat breads), kale chips is a recipe for disaster. Oh how I covet a dehydrator to safely make those crunchy bites! (Along with granola, chat mixes …)
Wow Gena! Your book sounds so intriguing. I’ve never been into raw food, but you make it look really interesting: Definitely, next in line of the things I want to try and never tried yet is overnight buckwheat porridge. I’ve been obsessed with roasted buckwheat lately, I’m curious to try it in a different form.
I’ve still never made banana soft serve – but I do love it
I would love to try this recipe! Or make my own nut butter!
Raw cashew cheese would be something interesting to try.
I’m gonna go with this raw yogurt! I’ve never made yogurt at home! Thank you for the giveaway and for being amazing. xoxo
Sushi, vegan of course. =)
Ice-cream cake!
I’d love to try making some marinara sauce and ‘meatballs’
The book looks wonderful, Gena! Congrats! I would like to try making some crackers or raw breads with leftover veggie and nut pulp. I’ve never been brave enough to adapt a recipe, since I don’t have a dehydrator.
I want to make raw brownie bites!
Looks yummy. Can’t wait to try it.
Gena! thank you for all the inspiration and guidance! I just moved across the country and am without any cookbooks…yours would be the perfect first west coast cookbook to inspire health and well being in a new place, a new chapter of my life!
I’ve always wanted to try making chocolate avocado pudding!
So going to try this recipe. Yummm! Hope I win
Congrats on the book. I am excited to get my hands on it!
I have been pondering raw nut cheeses for some time. Would love to give it a go 🙂
This recipe I want to try!!
Also, raw eggplant “bacon”
The raw food that I want to make but am yet to attempt is coconut bacon. sounds yummy. thanks so much for the chance to win!
This looks delicious! Definitely going to recreate this week. I’m so excited to make this — I’ve never made raw yogurt because all of the raw vegan recipes I’ve come across include young thai coconut meat which is not something I typically have access to. Thanks for sharing your wonderful kitchen creativity!
I love your recipes! It would be fabulous to have your new recipe book too!!
A raw recipe that I would love to try would be any kind of raw dessert! And, of course, this yogurt recipe! Yum!
Congratulations! I’d love to try making raw crackers.
You’re always so inventive! This looks fabulous. I love that there are bananas blended into it. I’m not entering the giveaway because I already bought your book, but I’m happy for whoever wins, because it’s a real gem. I still haven’t made my way completely through it, but I’m already loving everything. (I’m slowly savoring it! Haha.) Kudos to making a vegan cookbook/un-cookbook that appeals to both vegans and non-vegans alike. Part of its appeal, at least for me, is the lack of heavily processed substitutes. I loathe seeing a picture of a gorgeous vegan meal, only to find out that it’s full of store-bought vegan replacements for non-vegan ingredients. It’s truly a book straight from mother nature’s hands. This recipe and all the others it’s comprised of are beautiful. You should feel incredibly proud. My only complaint is that you didn’t write it sooner!
Side question: Have you ever considered writing anything on the subject of eating disorders? You’re such a gifted writer. I really think you should consider it.
I am extremely excited about your cookbook. I went to a raw foods dinner at a restaurant here in Denver. They made an amazing raw burger that I would love to try and recreate.
I’ve seen recipes for crackers that you put in the dehydrator. They sound interesting and would like to try them.
I’d love to make raw cashew cheese ! I see it so often on various blogs but have never made it.
Something I have yet to try making at home is raw granola – as well as anything that requires a dehydrator, which I don’t own (yet…). I’ve had the opportunity to try some delicious ones, and I would love to be able to recreate them – or even better, create my own – at home.
By the way, congratulations on the publication of your book! From what I’ve seen so far, it truly sounds great, and I know it’ll eventually find its way to my bookshelves…
I’m dying to make cashew cheeze!
I would love to try and make my own nut raw nut butters.
One raw recipe that I’ve been wanting to try is the raw beet ravioli!
Thank you for your great blog and all the inspiring recipes. This sounds divine! I do miss yoghurt.
I have always wanted to try making a fermented food like sauerkraut or kimchi and am trying to find a recipe that is not loaded with salt. Most of them seem to be.
I would love to try this yogurt recipe! And just this weekend I made raw ice cream sandwiches-having fun dabbling in raw foods!!!
I love almond milk but am totally intimidated by making it. Almond butter? No problem! Almond milk? Yikes.
Can’t wait to try this recipe! Sounds amazing!!
Raw desserts have my heart!
Something cold and yummy – like popsicles or ice cream! Thank you for the chance to win!
Oooh and different variations of dips and spreads. I do love me my veggies and dip!
I have been a blog stalker for about a year. I just love your recipes. Thanks so much for the chance of winning your cookbook. I’m so happy for your cookbook release. I hope there are many more to come!
I’d love to make my own larabars and raw desserts:)
One raw recipe I’ve never made but would like to is raw cheesecake!
I’d love to try raw cheesecake or nut cheese!
One raw food recipe I’ve never tried, but would love to make at home would definitely have to be any sort of salad dressing. I’ve become very accustomed(because I’ve been lazy haha) to using a dash of apple cider vinegar, lime, or lemon juice on all my salads. But I’ve been just chomping at the bit to make up some vegan creamy dressings! 🙂
This looks lovely! I’ve been meaning to try raw coconut bacon.
Yum! This looks so good. I love foods with lemon–I want to try making a raw cheesecake sometime (hopefully soon!). Do you know a good place to purchase probiotic powder? Thanks!
One raw recipe I have never tried at home but I would like to is making my own raw nut butters.
This recipe sounds awesome – definitely need to try it, since I used to love yogurt, and I haven’t enjoyed it in years. I’d love to try this drizzled over a banana wrap, from your recent post!