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Lemon Rice with Cashews, Peas, Ghee & Cumin
Experiment with buttery, sour rice dishes warmed with turmeric and cumin. Lemon lifts up the heaviness of rice. 'Deep flavored' cashews and ghee balance the rice with sweet peas that feel good in the body. Discovered by Jason, a student at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM.ayurveda notes
This is a rich, ojas-building rice dish that provokes Kapha and pacifies vata. Cashews, like most nuts, are too dense for people with weak digestion.
Sweet Lime Pickle
Sauces, chutneys, relishes, spicey pickles and sauces enhance any meal, giving the eater an opportunity to cook in their plate to their individual taste and craving. Condiments make it easy to eat all six tastes, essential to good Ayurvedic nutrition.
Sweet lime pickle combines sour, sweet and spicey tastes for a unique, simple effect.
ayurveda notes
Sour excites the salivary glands, the taste buds, and the stomach. Try this experiment: eat a teaspoon of sweet lime pickle on an empty stomach and wait five minutes. Notice your salivary, the tear ducts in the eyes, and the tingling, sensational effect on the stomach.
Sesame Bread
Ive had a vision of light, fluffy fresh baked bread for several years, of wholesome goodness without the kapha stickiness of high gluten wheat flours. Experiment after experiment, I finally spent a morning sunrise re-reading the famous Tassajara Bread Book looking for hidden hints I might have missed. Its been several years since the first time I thumbed through its contemplative reflections on folding hands & kneading dough. This recipe is modeled after Tassajara Bread Recipe #1.
September Sesame Bread is actually the result of many hints from many cooks from Virginia to New Mexico. For example, Frank Cook taught me to activate the yeast in honey. Two hidden hints from Tassajara were notable whipping the sponge & strengthening the dough, explained below. Golden brown, breath, bread of life, bread is a quiet revolution into a spiritual life. Welcome.
Makes 6+ cupcakes. Takes 1 hour of work and 6 hours of waiting, meditating, sitting on the porch.
ayurveda notes
Bread is about sharing life and baking breads ground Vata. If you can digest them, grains build Ojas which is the essence of all bodily tissues. Ojas gets depleted by the hot rays of the sun drying out bodily tissues. Rebuilding Ojas in the fall is a great way to prepare for winter.
Spelt flour is a special kind of wheat flour because it has less gluten. That makes it easier to digest than regular wheat. Sesame provides rich Ojas building oils and is warming for colder temperatures of the fall.
All breads are drying for Vata and soak up precious digestive juices in the stomach. We recommend hydrating bread first by dipping it in a sambar soup as you eat it. Or, substitute your own special, homemade favorite soup.
Cardamom, Fennel, Saffron, Coriander, Poppy Seed Spice Mix
Experiment with poppy seed and saffron spice mixes. Refreshing cardamom and savory saffron meet dark, rich poppy seeds. Discovered by Michele Schulz of Alchemy of Tastes, Albuquerque, NM.ayurveda notes
Spices aid digestion but usually provoke pitta. Here's an exception: Cooling is the unique quality of these spices. Poppy seeds help sleep and cardamom breaks up mucous and clears food cravings of Bodhaka Kapha.