Hip! Recipe of the Week: Jonsi and Alex's Raw Strawberry Pie

So this week’s wondrous recipe has a special heaping helping of Hip. Why, you ask? Because it came directly from that god-among-men himself, Jonsi.

For those that don’t know, Jonsi – former frontman of Sigur Ros – is a half-mad, half-blind Icelandic musical genius. He and his boyfriend Alex also happen to be raw vegans, which means they’re the badest badasses on the block when it comes to food. They don’t cook anything. Ever. Hardcore!

How can I be like them, you ask? (My, you are curious today.) Well, fortunately for you, they make it easy by hosting an online raw vegan cooking show. And that’s where today’s recipe comes from:

http://vimeo.com/5744893

Now, you could just watch this video (and you should, because it's awesome and would make you significantly Hipper). Or you could follow the directions my roommate and I have listed below. Enjoy.

Ingredients:

1 cup almonds

1 cup dates

2 cups coconut flakes (unsweetened)

4 tablespoons coconut oil

½ cup agave syrup

2 cups strawberries

Special equipment:

One helluva good food processor and blender

Directions:

Crush the almonds, dates, and 1 cup of coconut flakes in the food processor. Jonsi and Alex blend the ingredients one at a time, but you’re welcome to try them all together. Dump them into a medium-sized mixing bowl, add 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, and knead everything into a dough with your hands. It will be a little crumbly.

Press the dough into an eight-inch cake or pie pan. Then, as Jonsi and Alex say, “build the walls.”

For the filling, blend the remaining ingredients until creamy. Pour them over the crust and refrigerate for two hours. If this is too long to wait, you can you use frozen strawberries to make the process faster.

Garnish with sliced strawberries and serve.

Ta da! Jonsi and Alex would be proud.