“Sattu” Recipe - Sustaining and Rehydrating Drink Meal

• 1 oz toasted barley powdered

• 1 oz toasted kala chana powdered

• 4 pinches soma salt

• 2 cups water

• Juice of ½ lime

• ¼ tsp Toasted and powdered cumin seed or mum’s super spice

Dry roast kala chana and then remove skin, dry roast barley separately. Blend together until powdered. Add all other...

Ayurveda Rose Lassi Recipe

• 1 cups plain yogurt

• 1 cup water or more to desired thickness

• 1 tsp rose water (if you have pure rose hydrosol only - no imitations)

• 1tsp-1 Tbs rose jam, add additional unrefined sweetener and rose water to taste

• 1 tsp raw fennel seeds

• A pinch of cardamom (optional)

• Blend ingredients with hand immersion blender for 1 minute until frothy

• top with 1-2...

Pachak Lassi

• 1 cup water

• ¼-1 cup plain yogurt

• 1 slice fresh ginger root or 2 pinches Ayurvedic ginger powder

• 2 pinches cumin powder

• 2 pinches fennel powder

• 1 pinch salt

• Pinch of cilantro leaves or coriander powder

• Blend in blender for 1 minute.

Enhances digestive power. Balances all doshas. Can Take with meal.

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Tamarind Prune Chutney

This chutney is to be used only for purging the bowels during your Ayurvedic Living DetoxTM. Take 2-4 Tbs of chutney with dinner. You will learn to adjust the dosage over time to achieve the desired purge of 4-5 loose bowel movements. Bowels should be loose but not diarrhea.

Ingredients
8oz boiling water
4 dried prunes
1 tamarind pod (preferably “Thai...

Spice Churnas for Vata, Pitta, and Kapha

When we begin to follow an Ayurvedic diet, we are often attached to a food list of do’s and don’ts and we adhere as closely to this as possible. As we deepen in our understanding of why and how certain foods affect us, we begin to relax a little bit from our strict adherence to a food list and start to rejoin the rest of the dining world. We...

Coconut Probiotic

Ingredients: 

1 fresh MATURE Coconut (with brown fiber intact) – shake to be sure contains a lot of water 

½ tsp yogurt starter 

Directions: 

Open fresh coconut and pour coconut water into a clean and dry mason jar  using a strainer and a funnel 

Add spring water to a pot and prepare a water bath (AKA - double boiler or  bain...

Kitchari - Barley-Quinoa-Rice-Mung 

Ingredients: 

1/3 cup each pearled barley, quinoa and white basmati rice ½ cup split mung dhal 

2 Tbs ghee 

1 Tbs cumin seeds 

½ tsp turmeric 

1 tsp garam masala (“mum’s super spice”) 

1 ½ tsp salt (or to taste) 

2 tsp coriander powder 

Optional: 1 cup chopped...

Ayurvedic Veggie Patties

Ingredients: 

•  ½ cup each dry roasted cashews, rolled oats and besan flour (dry roast 3-5  minutes together) 

•  1 cup zucchini (grated) 

•  1/2 cup carrots (grated) 

•  1/2 cup green peas  

•  1/4 cup oat flour 

•  1/2 teaspoon turmeric ground  

•  1 teaspoon each: cumin powder, fennel...

Freedom Roll (Berry Dessert Roll)

This delicious red, white and blueberry dessert roll is perfect anytime you want a light, delicious berry dessert with a beautiful and showy presentation perfect for parties and celebrations. It's perfect for the 4th of July because of it's red and blue berries on top of fresh white whipped cream! In fact, it mimics the light style of birthdayman/woman cakes...

Naan

Naan is a soft bread which is very reducing to vata people. Naan is traditionally cooked in a clay oven or “tandoor.” This recipe uses a regular home oven, or even a toaster oven if that is what you’re working with.

Makes 6-8 Naan.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of flour (I prefer to use 1 1/3 cup whole wheat bread flour to 2/3 cup rice or barley flour, but for gluten...

 Ayurveda-Style Immune-Boosting

Almond Milk Recipe

Ingredients:

• 40 almonds-approximately 2 handfuls (soaked overnight in water, remove strain in the morning and discard almond skins)

• 6 dates soaked in 4 cups room temperature water over night-remove seeds/pits in the morning (do no discard water in the morning, you will use it for the base of the almond milk)

• 1-2 pinches of salt to...

Beet Chutney

Beets are heavy, warming, strength promoting and good for building the blood and moving the bowels. They are excellent for fall and winter in soups, grain or root veggie dishes, or in the summer with cooling vegetables such as cucumber and zucchini to prevent them from overheating the liver. This chutney can also be eaten in the spring.

Ingredients:

• 1-1.5 cups grated beet...

Traci's Easy Samosas Recipe (Puff Pastry Style)

Filling Ingredients: 

• 1.5 lbs potatoes (approx 3-6 depending on size) - boil in water until knife inserted into center comes out easy or until inside is not longer white but translucent, then cool, then peel off skin and chop into 1/4" smallish bite-sized cubes

• set aside 1/2 cup frozen or fresh peas

• Then in medium skillet, melt:

• 2 Tbs...

Green Chutney  (Cilantro Mint)

Ingredients:

• 2 bunches cilantro

• 1 bunch mint (or omit if you don't have any one hand it's fine =)

• 1½ tsp cumin seeds

• Juice of 1-2 limes

• 1tsp salt to taste

• ½ thai green chili (seeds removed – careful of eyes & face)

• ½-1 cup water – enough to blend easily (distilled is good as it will not go bad as...

“Thandai” - Cooling Festival Drink

This drink is often served chilled in summer or at Indian festivals

Ingredients:

• 6 cups milk

• 25 soaked and peeled or blanched Almonds

• 3 Tbs dry roasted Poppy seeds

• Few strands of Saffron (kesar)

• Dates or brown sugar to taste

• 8 green cardamoms

• 20 rose petals (fresh or dried), or 1 tbs rose water

• ½ stick Cinnamon

• 8-10 Black...