Sunday, July 31, 2011

Ayurvedic cooking: Pitta balancing diet

Dietary advice for a healthy person with Pitta dosha:

Great for a summer day, especially in Finland =) Seasonal stuff works for almost all people with a dosha in balance!

Breakfast: Fruit salad with dates, apricot, peach, mandarin and coconut with 6 soaked and peeled almonds with a pinch of honey
followed by coffee or my favorite: ginger-lemon-honey with fresh turmeric.

Snack: Valentine's Day Apple Pie (check my previous recipes)

Lunch: Honey Gone Nuts With The Salad with Pitta variations:
Lettuce, cucumber and sunflower seeds with cooked couscous, onion, garlic and salmon spiced with thyme, fennel, salt and some honey & lime.

Snack: Blueberry-milk frost... Basically add some milk with handful of blueberries and ice + honey and put in a freeze until it becomes like a sorbet.

Dinner: Steamed broccoli and celery with cooked quinoa spiced with fresh herbs and topped with cooked white beans and mild cheese. Put the previous in oven until cheese is melted.

Evening: Chamomile tea with some jaggery (+healthy version of sugar = Indian sugar = cane sugar... Baby has got a lot of names.)

Ayurvedic cooking: A day in Vatta's kitchen

What is she talking about? Who is Vatta? Ayurveda...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda

Well, trust me when I say: It's one of the greatest ancient guide to a healthy lifestyle in every section of life! Not just cooking. But since healthy life habits has a lot to do with cooking, I like to share my recipe creations!

Yes, I'm back in action with a knife on my hand... In the kitchen of a stable traveler.
And with a lot more knowledge.
Instead of explaining what is Ayurveda and who is Vatta, I'm just sticking with writing the recipe... for now :D

Vatta balancing diet:


Morning: 6-8 soaked almonds

Breakfast: Two carrot breads (check from my previous recipes) with ghee and some curd (=fresh yogurt)

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Pie with spicy veggie filling (check out my previous recipes)

Snack: Mint tea with honey & two X-mas cookies with apple jam (once again: check my previous recipes)

Dinner: The perfect composed soup ever (-pepper)(check...you know what)

Snack: Piece of mango with honey

So, if you are Vatta, try this out one day. Now: back to my studies and healing my belly which has taken over by amoeba that increases a lot of vatta problems... And makes me sensitive to all three dosha problems. Well, life is about changes. Gotta listen to them and go with the flow. I'm sure the amoeba is going soon with the flowing monsoon here in India, where Ayurveda was born.