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Buckwheat Tea Cake With Orange Zest & Raspberry


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How to Make Buckwheat Tea Cake with Orange Zest & Raspberry

INGREDIENTS


SKILL LEVEL: EASY
1/3 c
1/4 c
3 whole
1 tbsp
1 tsp
1 c
1/2 c
1/4 c

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a square 8- or 9-inch baking pan or dish. Set aside. In a separate bowl, melt the butter or coconut oil.
  2. Whisk the eggs then add sugar slowly, whisking again until the eggs are frothy.
    Whisk in the yogurt and vanilla. Carefully add a bit of the melted coconut oil to the egg mixture, whisking continuously as you slowly add all oil. Whisk in the buckwheat flour until batter is smooth. Mix in orange zest and raspberries.
  3. Pour into prepared pan or dish and bake 30 minutes, until just set in center. Cool at least 30 minutes in pan before slicing into squares to serve warm, or cool completely if you prefer.
Add additional toppings if desired. Add 1/4 cup almond meal for a nutty flavor and rustic texture. Substitute butter for coconut oil for more classic, creamy richness.
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How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?

CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE INSIGHTS

Buckwheat tea cakes with raspberry and orange are a dainty treat for socializing with friends. Buckwheat flour is lighter and drier than wheat flour, so that after eating this tea cake you'll feel as clear as the August skies. You and your friends will also enjoy the brightness of orange zest. A hint of raspberry hides within the smoothness of the cake, a delightful, energizing surprise when it touches your tongue. Paired with freshly brewed sun-tea, this cake is as sweet and carefree as conversation with friends.

Zesty, Uplifting Tones

When the touch of orange reaches your nose, it's uplifting and comforting all at once. Its citrus aroma refreshes and inspires while stimulating digestion and making this cake agreeable and light on the belly. Normally desserts are heavy, which makes for dull conversation. Here raspberries' zing makes you sparkle. Remember running through the sprinkler on a hot summer's day? Raspberry brings the laughter of children back into your life - full of energy and pop!

Light yet Satisfying

Buckwheat, though gluten free, satisfies your stomach but without the heaviness of wheat. Its drier texture is perfect for a tea cake that won't weigh you down. It gives you the feeling of being full without feeling stagnant - completely content.
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Medicinal Effects of Buckwheat Tea Cake with Orange Zest & Raspberry

Constitutional nutrition systems use biocharacteristics to classify the metabolic nature of food, herbs, lifestyle choices, your body, and disease.

METABOLIC NATURE / BIOCHARACTERISTICS

Metabolic Nature / Biocharacteristics

Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics (vital qualtiies). Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance. By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick. Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold). You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.

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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Orange Zest

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TASTES

The 6 Tastes

Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food. Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body. Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food. Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods. Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion. Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste. One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes. The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent. Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?

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SWEET

ABOUT SWEET BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Sweet refers to anything builds tissue, including macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Coconut Oil, Buckwheat, Eggs, Raspberry

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AYURVEDA BODY TYPES (DOSHAS)

The Three Doshas / Body Types

Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.

Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.

Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.

Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.

The 3 metabolic body types (doshas), are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).

Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.

Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.

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PACIFIES
Pitta pacifying Vata pacifying
AGGRAVATES
Kapha aggravating

GREEK MEDICINE / TEMPERAMENTS

The Four Temperaments / Humors

Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia. They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature. Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.

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PACIFIES
CHOLERIC

ABOUT CHOLERIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.

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MELANCHOLIC

ABOUT MELANCHOLIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.

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SANGUINE

ABOUT SANGUINE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A hot and oily nature with a moderate metabolism and a well nourished body makes Sanguine individuals vigorous, vivacious, outgoing and generous, and prone to impulsivity and self indulgence. Bullish and intense when out of balance.

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AGGRAVATES
PHLEGMATIC

ABOUT PHLEGMATIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

A Phlegmatic has a cold and wet metabolic nature. The coldness implies a slow metabolism, the moisture that you are well-nourished. Phlegmatics tend towards sluggishness and thickened fluids, including mucus.

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Other Health Virtues

Aromatic

STRONG AROMATIC

Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.

Active Ingredients: Orange Zest

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Red Blood

RED-BLOOD

Red blood (Rakta Dhatu) includes red blood cells and blood vessels.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat, Raspberry

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Blood Plasma Lymph

BLOOD-PLASMA-LYMPH

Plasma (Rasa Dhatu) includes plasma, white blood cells, and lymph.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Coconut Oil, Buckwheat, Yogurt

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Polygonaceae

POLYGONACEAE

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Buckwheat Tea Cake with Orange Zest & Raspberry
Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary. The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.

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Warms Abdomen

MILD WARMS-ABDOMEN

Warms the muscles and organs of the abdomen, stimulating digestion and metabolism.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Spleen Tonic

STRONG SPLEEN-TONIC

An herb that strengthens spleen function by improving strength of the blood. Spleen tonics Builds agni, brighten the person's appearances & firms up tissues.

Active Ingredients: Vanilla Extract, Orange Zest

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Wakes You Up

STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP

Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Orange Zest

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Makes You Tired

STRONG MAKES-YOU-TIRED

Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar

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Makes Jittery

STRONG MAKES-JITTERY

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar

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Strengthens Resolve

MILD STRENGTHENS-RESOLVE

Increases determination and courage by reducing stress and building strength.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Nerve Relaxant Grounding

MILD NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING

Encourages feelings of stability and heaviness. Makes you feel settled, mentally relaxed. Mildly sedates the nervous system to ease stress. Can bring a spacey or anxious person back to earth. Reduces agitation, irritation, stress and racing thoughts.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Stimulates Energy

STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Oil, Orange Zest

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Satisfies Stomach

SATISFIES-STOMACH

Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.

Active Ingredients: Eggs, Buckwheat

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Refreshing

MILD REFRESHING

Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.

Active Ingredients: Orange Zest

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Builds Stamina

MILD BUILDS-STAMINA

Promotes strength, endurance and resistance in the body. Rebuilds weak tissues after a time of depletion.

Active Ingredients: Eggs

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Nutritive

STRONG NUTRITIVE

An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Coconut Oil, Buckwheat, Eggs, Raspberry, Yogurt

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Diuretic

MILD DIURETIC

Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Livotonic

LIVOTONIC

An herb that strengthens the liver. It is helpful for people with a history of substance abuse, chronic liver issues from hepatitis and hemolytic anemias. Generally, liver tonics are oily, cool, sweet, mildly sour, or contain beta-carotene.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Oil, Raspberry, Yogurt

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Constituents:
Carbohydrate

STRONG CARBOHYDRATE

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Buckwheat

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Rutin

STRONG RUTIN

Rutin is a flavonoid with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Commonly used to treat conditions such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and high blood pressure.

Active Ingredients: Orange Zest, Buckwheat

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Phosphorous

PHOSPHOROUS

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat, Eggs, Yogurt

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Quercitin

MILD QUERCITIN

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat, Raspberry

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Polyphenols

MILD POLYPHENOLS

Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat, Raspberry

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Fats

MILD FATS

Active Ingredients: Coconut Oil, Eggs

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Flavonoids

MILD FLAVONOIDS

Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat, Raspberry

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Zinc

MILD ZINC

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Protein

MILD PROTEIN

Active Ingredients: Eggs

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Soluble Fiber

MILD SOLUBLE-FIBER

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Selenium

MILD SELENIUM

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Inositol

MILD INOSITOL

Inositol is an alcohol sugar made naturally in the human body from glucose. It is lipotropic (aiding fat metabilism in the liver). It affects a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, steroid, growth factors and water.

Active Ingredients: Eggs

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Insoluble Fiber

MILD INSOLUBLE-FIBER

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Iron

MILD IRON

Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Phytates

MILD PHYTATES

Phytates prevent absorption of nutrients. They are commonly found in all seeds, including nuts, grains, and beans. Sprouting greatly reduces phytate content, as well as long, slow cooking with vinegar.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Manganese

MILD MANGANESE

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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Magnesium

MILD MAGNESIUM

Helps muscles relax. Laxative.

Active Ingredients: Buckwheat

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John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a healthy diet and lifestyle through constitutional nutrition (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda, offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.

John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy, & botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. John, his wife Natalie and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC

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