Holistic nutrition with Ayurvedic healing dishes
HOLISTIC NUTRITION includes medicinal dishes that are available all over the world. These are traditional dishes and drinks with healing properties, for example ayurvedic medicinal dishes. On this page we present ayurvedic medicinal dishes, which are very effective for maintaining health and treating specific diseases. In order to achieve the desired therapeutic effect, the ingredients, herbs and spices are adapted to the current state of health and digestive power.
Spicy dishes are stimulating the digestion, while sweet dishes or drinks have a deacidifying effect. You will find ayurvedic healing dishes at every Ayurveda Clinic in India or Sri Lanka. They are quick to prepare and so delicious, that they will definitely become one of your favorite dishes.
Ayurvedic Healing Dishes: Golden Milk
Golden milk, can be prepared in many different ways. The base is milk from happy cows or vegan milk made from almonds, oats, rice or lupins. It is cooked with spices such as turmeric, cardamom and saffron, but also cinnamon and ginger. For natural sweetening, you can use raw cane sugar or coconut blossom sugar, alternatively maple or date syrup, erythritol or stevia. Find out which ingredients are best for you and your health.
Ayurvedic Healing Dishes: the Glorious Mungbean Soup
The healthiest stew in the world! This is one of the most effective healing dishes from Ayurveda, which will help you loosing excessive fats, high blood sugar and promotes your digestion. Simply everything is in this soup! Great for pre-cooking. It is the healing dish in ayurvedic clinics for detoxification and weight loss. Dosage of herbs and spices is individual, so find out yourself which one and which quantity is best for you. The Mungbean Soup belongs to the ayurvedic healing dishes, which you will get in every Ayurveda Clinic. It is very effective if you want to loose weight. You can eat it everyday.
Quantity: for 2-4 portions
Duration: approx. 45-60 minutes
Effect:
Warming, digestive and stimulates the metabolism. Do not use hot spices if you suffer from hyperacidity.
Preparation:
150 g Mungbeans soaked overnight for minimum 8 hours in in lukewarm water,
cut 1-2 carrots and 1 sweet potato or half into small pieces. Grate a piece of fresh ginger.
Heat at least 2 liters of water.
- Heat 2 tbsp sesame oil or ghee slowly, then stir and add:
- 1 teaspoon Cumin powder
- 1 tbsp medium hot curry
- 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 1 grated fresh ginger
- 1 knife tip of Asafoetida
- Add the soaked Mungbeans and the chopped vegetables to the spiced oil. Cook at medium heat for about 50-70 minutes.
- After about 40 minutes add some raisins if you like. Pour boiled hot water as needed and cook the Mungobeans until they are soft. Finally add 1-2 teaspoons of rock salt.
By the way, all ayurvedic healing dishes can be seasoned in different ways.
Serving:
Fill the hot soup into a bowl and add 1 teaspoon of coconut milk or ghee. Eat warm or hot.
Holistic Nutrition with Ayurvedic Healing Dishes
Ayurvedic Healing Dishes: Heartwarming Kichadi
This mild ayurvedic healing dish is one of the main healthy dishes in the world with lots of healing properties. This fusion of rice, lentils, herbs and spices and vegetables is easy to digest and also cleanses, detoxifies and deacidifies the tissues. It is the ideal food in hyperacidity too. Kichadi has a magic effect on your mood and gives you a cozy warm feeling.
Softly cooked with Ghee and mild spices, it becomes a soft porridge with an incredibly soothing effect on the stomach, especially if the you suffer from inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract. Kichadi is very nourishing. It is the right meal for everyone in any age, especially by children and seniors, who have a weak digestion power. In obesity use less rice and more lentils and veggies.
Quantity: 2-4 portions
Duration: 40-45 minutes
Effect:
Cooling, deacidifying, cleansing, nourishing and moisturizing
Preparation:
Cut 1-2 carrots and one fennel into small pieces. Optionally use parsnips, parsley roots and zucchini. Wash Basmati rice and 75g Mungdal in cold water. Heat at least 2-3 liters of water.
- Start with warming up 2-3 tablespoons of Ghee and add
- 1 teaspoon Cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 4-6 whole Cloves
- if necessary, add 1 heaped teaspoon of whole cane sugar and mix in
- Finally add the lentils, rice and the chopped vegetables to it with hot water and let it simmer on medium heat for about 35-40 minutes.
- Keep adding hot water until the Kichadi is soft as a porridge. In the end add rock salt. Remove it from heat and cover the pot for 5 minutes.
Kichadi is one of the ayurvedic healing dishes which will warm your heart and cover you with lots of love.
Serving:
Eat the Kichadi always warm with fresh Coriander on top.
