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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Meals that Heal – Spiced Guacamole and Flax Seed Crackers
This is definitely not your traditional guacamole, but even fans of the traditional version are surprised at how much they like this version.
Meals that Heal – Green Papaya Salad
This is a classic Thai salad adapted from Eat, Taste Heal – An Ayurvedic Cookbook. It makes a tangy dish that stimulates the digestive fire (metabolism) which for most of us is a little sluggish this time of year!
Meals that Heal – Hot Quinoa Cereal with Spiced Soy Milk
Quinoa, pronounced “keen-wah” is a delicious, protein rich pseudo-grain that dates back to the time of the Incas. They revered this extremely nutritious grain as
Meals that Heal – Kitchari with Brown Basmati Rice and Mung Beans
Kitchari is the most wonderful food in the world. You can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Eat it when you are sad, sick, depressed, or unhappy. Over the last few years it has become my go to meal and when my digestion plays up – it’s my comfort food. I know it will balance out any digestive problems, clear up my skin and just makes me feel good all over. If I have overdone it; traveled too much, stayed up too late, or eaten too much processed food, then a few days of kitchari will clear up any heaviness and sluggishness.
Meals that Heal – Chocolate Avocado Mousse
A pleasing sweet treat that’s packed full with nutrition, this chocolate mousse is always a hit wherever and whenever I serve it. If you keep the main ingredient secret, almost no one will guess that it’s the avocado that gives this mousse its body and creamy texture. Kids will scarf it down and ask for more, not realizing there’s actually green goodness in it and plenty of healthy fat to keep the body energized and the metabolism fired up
Meals that Heal – Zesty Lentil-Spinach Stew
A one-pot dinner that is fresh, healthy and easy to make. It’s also a complete meal by Ayurvedic standards, with all six tastes included.—sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent. Eat it slowly, and see if you can find all six.
Meals that Heal – Cacao & Banana Wholemeal Spelt Muffins
These muffins are made with wholemeal spelt flour. Spelt is packed with nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and essential organic compounds that other cereals and forms of wheat don’t contain, which might explain the renewed interest in spelt.
Meals that Heal – Goldenmilk
Another Ayurvedic favorite of mine and one I often suggest to my clients when they are fatigued. A warming, comforting drink whose main ingredient is turmeric and has been used in both Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine as an anti-inflammatory, to treat digestive and liver problems, fatigue, insomnia, and skin diseases.
Meals that Heal- Ginger Buckwheat Noodles with Miso & Lime
Let’s talk about Ginger! Long revered in ayurveda, so much so, that it is an entire medicine chest in itself.
Meals That Heal- Detox Lentil Soup
So you have made a New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier, and you are trying to avoid the left over holiday cookies. Perhaps you are feeling a little sluggish after all the holiday festivities. Here is a an easy crockpot lentil soup that not only tastes delicious but is detoxifying too.
Ayurveda Buttermilk (Takra) – why it is great for your digestive health!
Suffering from acidity after a heavy meal? Tired and just back from a long day in the sun? Well, before you reach for that bottle of iced tea, soda or iced water, try a glass of buttermilk. A yummy, cool drink made from yogurt and digestive spices such as cumin, coriander and mint, and salt.
Springing into Spring Foods For Your Dosha
Ayurveda classifies health as:
Having a balanced mind, having a well formed body, having good elimination. When the mind and body are in harmony and when the dosha’s are balanced. And then and only then are we in good health. To keep healthy we must eat the Spring Foods for your dosha.
Kitchari-The Ayurveda Superfood for a Spring Reset
Kitchari has been Ayurveda’s age-old signature detox dish! The word “kitchari” (pronounced kitch-a-ree) in India means mixture of two or more grains. Kitchari is the Ayurveda Superfood for a Spring Reset.
Ayurvedic Recipe: Vata Balancing Smoothie
Fall means Vata Dosha is on the rise. To help keep it balanced, we’ve created this unique, delicious smoothie for you to try, using organic