Ayurvedic Recipe Listing

Ayurvedic Recipes

In no other healing tradition is diet considered so crucial to well-being as in ayurveda. Ayurvedic healers contend that if the food you eat is not suited to your constitution or needs for balance, all the medicines in the world cannot keep you well. And if your diet is wholesome and suited to your unique needs, you will probably not need medicine at all.

Although diet is an important healing modality in ayurveda, there are no one-size-fits-all rules. You are unique in your constitutional make-up (prakriti) and your current needs for balance (vikriti); thus, your dietary needs are unique too. You won't find pre-set body weights by age and gender or calorie counting instructions in ayurvedic dietary theory. What you will find are recommendations to really listen to what your physiology is telling you about what, where, when and how you eat. You'll find instructions to include the six different tastes--sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent--at every meal, favoring those tastes that are suited to your current needs and incorporating lesser amounts of the rest. Including different tastes at each meal reduces cravings and balances appetite and digestion naturally.

The ayurvedic way of cooking is about bringing together a harmonious collection of fresh wholesome ingredients into a feast for all your senses. In a well-prepared ayurvedic meal, a medley of tastes, textures, colors, aromas and flavors blend together to restore balance to your body, mind, spirit, senses and emotions.

Here are some ayurvedic recipes for you to try. We add recipes to this section regularly, so check back often!

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Spotlight on Cilantro

Cilantro is a cooling, purifying herb used extensively in ayurvedic cooking

Also known as Chinese parsley, cilantro refers to the leaves of the coriander plant. It's easy to grow from seed in your garden or in a pot in bright sun.

According to ayurveda, cilantro offers the bitter and astringent tastes. It is a cooling herb and puts out excess flames in the stomach and generally enhances the digestion without aggravating Pitta dosha.

In recent years, modern science has discovered that cilantro is a natural chelation agent, very helpful in removing heavy metals such as lead, mercury and aluminium from the body. To get the benefit of cilantro's chelating property, enjoy a couple of teaspoons of cilantro chutney with your meals on a regular basis.

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Spotlight on Cilantro