Eat better and live healthier with this easy-to-follow Ayurvedic cookbook. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of health and healing based on the principle that each human being is unique and has a distinct individual constitution, genetic inheritance and predisposition to certain ailments. Practitioners can stay healthy and happy by following rules such as: Warm, comfort foods like Shepherd's pie or butternut soup can help alleviate joint pain and poor circulation brought on by chilly, windy weather. In summer, pasta primavera, shrimp salad, sauteed tofu, and other sweet and light foods cool off irritable moods and help digestive problems. Pungent, astringent foods--savory lentils, turkey loaf, kasha and the like --can help ease the distress of a winter cold. The Quick & Easy Ayurvedic Cookbook allows you to implement Ayurvedic principles in your cooking easily and improve your health without devoting long hours of study to the subject or breaking your budget. Learn how to cure insomnia and indigestion, and even mood swings, just by making food choices based on your Ayurvedic constitution. The recipes include familiar favorites making this cookbook a practical addition to your kitchen and home.
Keeping digestion on track is the key to health in Ayurveda, and eating natural, homemade foods in accordance with personal constitution and changes in environment is often all that we need to find balance. In The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Kate O’Donnell inspires you to get into the kitchen and explore this time-honored system of seasonal eating for health and vibrancy.Season by season, learn how the changing weather and environment both mirror and influence your body and appetite.Foundational "everyday" recipes can be adapted to any season and any dosha for nourishing, flavorful meals.Includes lifestyle advice on meal planning, self-care regimens, and how to ensure health during the change of seasons.
Simple Ayurvedic Recipes is a guide to creating quick, tasty, and balanced meals, combining the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with practical steps for the modern cook. This book captures the essence and impact of this natural approach, taking the guesswork out of meal preparation. Offering delicious food and spice combinations, the easy recipes are deeply nourishing and fully satisfying for all constitutions. The concepts and recipes in this book increase vitality and optimize well-being. They also support illness prevention and recovery. It inspires you to connect how you feel to what and how you are eating, with concise steps toward improvement. Simple Ayurvedic Recipes adds to the tools for vibrant living already provided in Lewin's first book Freedom in Your Relationship with Food.
"Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners makes it such a joy to create delicious, healing meals that one's relationship with food is forever transformed."--Melanie Fiorella, MD, Associate Clinician Professor of Integrative Health at UC San Diego, visiting staff member of the Chopra Center's Mind-Body Medical Group Modern medicine treats most ailments with prescription drugs. However, for those who want a natural approach to wellness, Ayurveda is a powerful, effective means of holistic healing. Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners takes a nature-based approach to wellness by turning to the oldest known medical system--food. Join expert Ayurveda practitioner Laura Plumb as she shows you how to practice the principles of Ayurveda in the kitchen with Ayurvedic cooking techniques for health and wellbeing. Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners is your complete guide to adopting the ancient science of Ayurveda with: An overview of Ayurveda from its history to present day More than 100 easy, satisfying recipes for every body type, or dosha, based on the fundamentals of Ayurveda A 5-step guide to Ayurvedic eating grounded in your body's unique requirements and determined by a simple dosha quiz 4 seasonal, 7-day Ayurveda meal plans to help you maintain a balanced dosha season after season "Laura Plumb inspires others to achieve vitality and radiant health. Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners should be on everyone's bookshelf because understanding the principals of Ayurveda is essential to health and wellness."--Melissa Ambrosini, bestselling author & speaker "Absolutely delicious book! Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners is a beautiful guidebook that brings awareness to healthy foods and fosters a love for cooking."--Dr. Manisha Kshirsagar, BAMS, Ayurveda teacher (India)
Experience total health, wellness, and healing with the time-honored and ancient concept of Ayurveda You are what you eat, right? We've all heard this saying. But what does Ayurveda have to do with eating? Everything! Ayurveda is a complete holistic healing system that mainly focuses on offering a healthy lifestyle. Ayurveda believes in the infamous saying, 'Prevention is better than cure.' However, one can also use this system to heal or cure their existing ailments. Experts say that Ayurveda was found 5,000 years ago in Ancient India and then spread across different parts of the world, especially Asia. Ayurveda is a combination of two words, Ayur=Life and Veda=Science of knowledge. Ayurveda is literally the science of life! I did not grow up in India, but I spent lots of time there with my family. Currently, I am a practicing dentist by trade. The health of someone's teeth and gums can tell so much about a person's lifestyle, health choices, and diet. When I was a teenager, I ate fast food (like many teens do), drank soda, and didn't get enough sleep or water. I was a typical, modern teenager. When my health began to fail, I turned to conventional medicine to help, to no avail. My dear, sweet grandmother introduced me to the idea of Ayurvedic eating, and I have not turned back since! My ailments began to heal, and my pain began to subside once I turned away from Big Macs and chose carrot pudding instead. I believe entirely - personally and professionally - that your diet is the number one reason for any health-related malady. Food is medicine! I will teach you all about Ayurveda and how to apply these concepts to your chosen diet. What if you could lose weight, eliminate stress, balance hormones, reduce inflammation, and ward off diseases, all by what you chose to consume? In my book, you will learn how to do precisely that! You will learn: What is Ayurveda? Origins and History of Ayurveda Importance of Ayurveda Health Benefits of Ayurvedic Food The Three Doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha Food and its Importance in Ayurveda The Six Tastes How to Eat According to Your Dosha Ayurvedic Staples Over 100 Ayurvedic Recipes Healing Recipes Kapha Pacifying Recipes Vata Pacifying Diet Pitta Balancing Recipes Immunity Boosting Recipes Pregnancy Recipes Here is a sample recipe: ★ Ginger Carrot Soup ★ This recipe is good for mental health. Studies have shown that people with higher levels of carotenoids were less likely to face depression. Selenium keeps our mood bright. Ginger can influence the happy hormone- serotonin - and works as a natural anti-depressant to reduce anxiety. Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of ghee 1-inch of fresh, roughly chopped ginger 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon of ground fenugreek 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg 6 chopped carrots 1 teaspoon of lemon zest 4 cups of vegetable broth Olive oil for drizzling Any of 2 seasonal herbs, like basil, rosemary, or thyme for garnish Preparation: 1. In a large soup pot, melt the ghee over medium heat. Stir in the cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, fenugreek, dried ginger powder, and fresh chopped ginger and sauté for a minute. 2. Add in the vegetable broth, carrots, and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat to low, simmer for 10 minutes. 3.Using a blender, transfer the soup and blend to make a puree. Now return this soup to the soup pot and cook for another minute. 4. Serve in soup bowls and sprinkle the lemon zest and drizzle the olive oil and add your favorite herbs.
Eat your way to increased energy, balanced emotions, and an overall state of calm and relaxation. In Ayurvedic medicine there are said to be three main energies that affect our mind: • sattva, the state of contentment and calm; • rajas, the state of reactivity and excitability; and • tamas, the dull, slow, and stagnant state of mind. The good news is that there are direct ways of bringing these states into balance through what we eat. The recipes in this book are simple, seasonal, and delicious, while bringing the traditional foods of Ayurveda into the modern kitchen.Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind uncovers the true potential of food to heal not only our bodies, but our minds too.
A healing diet for a healthy body—an Ayurvedic cookbook full of quick and tasty meals The traditional South Asian system of medicine—Ayurveda—is based on the concept of balancing your body to achieve total wellness. A diet centered around Ayurveda teaches us that the right food can ultimately balance and heal us. The 30-Minute Ayurvedic Cookbook makes it simple to eat an Ayurvedic diet, with 90 delicious recipes that take half an hour or less to prepare. The recipes in this Ayurvedic cookbook are labeled for specific benefits—like digestion, heart health, weight loss, constipation relief, and more—so you can quickly find meals designed to benefit your individual healing process. This Ayurvedic cookbook includes: Introducing Ayurveda—Discover details on what Ayurveda is, items to stock your kitchen with, how to eat for healing, and more. 90 healing recipes—Cleanse and restore your body with recipes like Detox Tonic, Antioxidant Energy Smoothie, Colorful Quinoa Salad, and Classic Cleansing Kitchari. The right foods for you—Take a quiz to determine your dosha (biological energy), and learn how you can eat to heal your unique body. Bring balance back to your body with simple, therapeutic meals—The 30-Minute Ayurvedic Cookbook has everything you need to get cooking.
In a culture driven by advertising, convenience, and weight-loss gimmicks, our relationship with food has become sadly out-of touch. Yoga teacher Myra Lewin encourages us to slow down and cultivate a healthy relationship with what we put in our bodies. Drawing from the basic principles of Ayurveda and Yoga, Freedom in Your Relationship to Food is a simple and effective guide to enhancing your relationship with food and the process of eating. Including lists of foods to seek out or avoid, simple breathing and meditation exercises, and practical recipes, this book will help you overcome mental and physical obstacles to attain excellent health.
Amadea Morningstar, co-author of the bestselling Ayurvedic Cookbook, received many requests for Western recipes that utilized Ayurvedic principles. Well, here it is This is a "one of a kind" book that is sure to be a strong bestseller and represents a dramatic enhancement for people who want to practice Ayurvedic health practices in the West.
The Ayurveda Vegan Kitchen offers people the opportunity to follow an Ayuvedic diet without the use animal products. Ayurveda is a holistic healing system developed in ancient India to increase an understanding of the human body, mind, and spirit. It organizes the elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth into three body types, or doshas. Although each person is unique, one of these doshas will predominate their constitution and will need to be balanced on a regular basis. Dairy products are important foods in traditional Ayurveda; however, for every milk-based food that Ayurvedic healers revere, there is an equally effective whole-food, vegan alternative. Following the same nutritional principles as traditional Ayurveda, Talya created over 120 delicious recipes that provide healing flavors and harmony to the mind and spirit. Easy-to-follow symbols on each recipe page show how the unique chemistry of that recipe can be used to balance the body'’s constitution. Since a healthy digestive system is at the core of ayurvedic medicine, these recipes will keep you on track and in good health.
