Meals That Heal – Ayurveda Recipes: Potato Salad with Watercress This easy to make early summer favorite has a healthy dressing of yogurt and herbs. Pitta types will benefit from the mildly bitter watercress leaves and cooling mint and fennel. Eastern View: Often placed near the exit of an Indian restaurant is a tray of small…
Meals That Heal
Ayurveda Meals that Heal – Spring Escarole and Chickpea Soup with Cilantro Garlic Bread
Ayurveda Meals that Heal – Spring Escarole and Chickpea Soup with Cilantro Garlic Bread This easy to make late spring soup is delicious. Fill your kitchen with the aromas of fresh cilantro and garlic bread baking as the chickpeas and vegetables simmer. Yum! Eastern View: Cilantro is a popular indian spice that is invaluable medicine…
Ayurveda Meals that Heal – Mango Turmeric Ginger Tonic
Ayurveda Meals that Heal – Mango Turmeric Ginger Tonic Eastern View: All parts of a mango have medicinal uses including the bark, leaves, flowers, and seeds Texts of ayurveda mention various herbal preparations using different parts of a mango tree. The mango bark, flower, leaves, and seed kennel are astringent and cause dryness of bodily…
Berry Almond Crisp With Cardamom Custard
Berry Almond Crisp With Cardamom Custard Yummy custard – especially when it’s laced with cardamom and cinnamon. Add to that fresh spring berries (supreme cleansers for the body) as the main attraction—sweetened with just a drizzle of maple syrup and spiked with a splash of vanilla—dessert by no means needs to sabotage your day. Eastern…
Ayurveda Meals That Heal – Chermoula and Pasta
Ayurveda Meals That Heal – Chermoula and Pasta This spice-infused North African herb sauce is a staple of Moroccan cuisine. It is traditionally made with cilantro, garlic, coriander, smoked paprika, chili paste, lemon and olive oil. Chermoula has powerful detoxifying properties thanks to cilantro, which binds to heavy metals and carries them out of the…
Meals That Heal – Date Butter
Meals That Heal – Date Butter Eastern View: In Ayurveda dates are considered a ‘superfood’ because they are nourishing and promote balance. They are an ojas building food which means they build vitality and immunity. They bring a sense of sweetness to your life, and contain phytochemicals and are a precursor to the hormone oxytocin…
Meals that Heal – Ojas Building Milk
Meals that Heal – Ojas Building Milk What is ojas? It is a Sanskrit term for our inner vitality, and our sense of immunity. It’s that glow of great health. Ojas grounds us and supports our mental, physical and spiritual growth. It protects us against high levels of stress and provides mental stability and peace….
Meals that Heal – Coconut Energy Balls
Sweets are an essential part of any celebration or gathering.
These coconut sweets are very easy to make and only require simple ingredients that can be found in most grocery stores. It tastes delicious when made with freshly grated coconut, but if its hard to find, use desiccated coconut instead.
Be warned – when you may make these, they may not last till the guests arrive!
Meals that Heal – Spicy Sweet Potatoes with Spinach
New potatoes and baby leaf spinach are wonderful ingredients, whose flavors compliment each other in this delicious dish.
Combined with anti-inflammatory spices such as turmeric, Garam masala and ginger; its a healing spring dish that is as tasty as it is healing.
I like to serve this simple home style preparation with Chapatis or Naan bread for a home cooked meal.
Meals that Heal – Coconut Kefir Breakfast
Kefir is a unique cultured dairy product that is one of the most healing foods on the planet. Containing healthy strains of friendly bacteria, such as lactobacilli. It has incredible medicinal benefits for healing issues like leaky gut, IBS and Crohn’s disease.