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How to Make Butternut Squash Soup with Rosemary & ThymeSERVINGS: 4 PREP TIME: 20 MINUTES COOK TIME: 20 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
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PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Begin by sauteing the onions in the olive oil. When the onions begin to brown, add the garlic. Allow the garlic to cook with the onions for another few minutes. Next, add all of the remaining ingredients, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Cook until the butternut squash is tender - about 20 minutes. Allow the soup to cool a bit before transferring it to a blender. Blend at medium speed in intervals, venting any steam that accrues during the process. Blend until creamy and smooth. Serve and garnish with a sprinkle of fresh thyme and cracked black pepper.
For an additional skin tonifying quality, add a pinch of turmeric.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Something shifts in the late summer to early autumn air, and you find yourself craving more grounding and heavy foods. Pumpkin pie spices begin appearing on end caps at your local grocery store and in creamy lattes in your hometown coffee shops. You feel a need to combat the movement of the season, and changes in the air, with warm drinks and soups that make you feel held and cozy, nourished and rooted within yourself as the world around you rapidly transforms before your eyes.
This naturally creamy Butternut Squash Soup With Rosemary & Thyme grounds and nourishes your body and soul alike. The soft orange color is reminiscent of the fall leaves that are beginning to appear in treetops as the days shorten, while reminding us of the warm rays of the late summer sun that now feels like a far away dream, dropping from mind with the humidity.
The addition of mineral salt and sweetly cooked, caramelized garlic and onion further grounds the shifting energies of the mind with a sleepy, satisfying, tamasic, effect. Black pepper, rosemary and thyme further enhance the warming qualities of this recipe, rounding out the heaviness with the high notes of aromatic spices, while the rosemary lends a rustic feel to the sweet, orange butternut squash. Add enough black pepper and rosemary to give the butternut squash a warm feel that will help drive the sweet nourishing ojas of the squash to the whole body.
If you experience dry skin this time of year, the pairing of turmeric with the nourishing butternut squash can make for a great skin tonic.
With the nutritive squash blending with the warming, lung penetrating, and antimicrobial actions of the herbs and spices, this recipe comes just in the nick of time. It will build up your reserves to prevent respiratory viruses that awaken during this time of year. WHAT IS BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP WITH ROSEMARY & THYME?Rosemary lends a rustic feel to the sweet, orange butternut squash.
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Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
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Increases These Biocharacteristics (Gunas)
Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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| EASY ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
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Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.
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Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.
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Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
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Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.
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Hot is identified by increased body temperature, metabolism, or inflammation.
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The Three Doshas / Body Types
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy. They are easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass. If they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion. Anabolic people tend to be stable and grounded.
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Resinous RESINOUS
Resinous substances often contain sap in them, such as rosemary, or herbs such as cedar, frankincense, and guggulu.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Butternut Squash Soup with Rosemary & Thyme 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.
Stomachic STOMACHIC
An herb that increases appetite or settles a nauseas or nervous stomach. These generally increase the digestive fire, therefore relieving symptoms of sluggish or difficult digestion.
SEE ALL 'STOMACHIC' FOODS / HERBS , , Nerve Relaxant Grounding 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.
SEE ALL 'NERVE-RELAXANT-GROUNDING' FOODS / HERBS , Tonic TONIC
A tonic herb restores function through strengthening tissue. This can happen through a combination of nourishing the tissue, and invigorating tissue metabolism. The tonic should not be withering, as in caffeine.
SEE ALL 'TONIC' FOODS / HERBS , , , Warms Chest WARMS-CHEST
Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
SEE ALL 'WARMS-CHEST' FOODS / HERBS , , Expectorant EXPECTORANT
Expectorants help you eliminate mucus from the lungs. These herbs often work by increasing the quantity of mucus, or thinning the mucus. Expectorants are indicated when phlegm congests the lower respiratory tract.
SEE ALL 'EXPECTORANT' FOODS / HERBS Vasodilator VASODILATOR
A vasodilator is an herb that widens the blood vessels by the relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, thereby increasing circulation systemically or to a local area.
SEE ALL 'VASODILATOR' FOODS / HERBS , Alterative ALTERATIVE
Restores the proper function of the body by cleansing the blood and balancing blood chemistry. In Ayurveda terms, they pacify Pitta in rakta. They were traditionally used to revitalize and detoxify after a long winter.
SEE ALL 'ALTERATIVE' FOODS / HERBS Cholagogue CHOLAGOGUE
Cholagogues stimulate the production & release of bile from the liver & gallbladder. This refreshes and cleanses these organs, as well as increases bile in the small intestines.
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Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, hear palpitations, migraine, or IBS.
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John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
as well as public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem.
His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 6 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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I cook squash with hing and ajwain. A recipe used in eastern India involves basil and mustard seeds with squash. I have no clue about the dosha implications of these combinations but I love the taste!
- Garima Thockchom, Fremont, CA , 02-11-10 ( Reply)
There are no instructions on how much water or what to do after it comes to a boil? Im assuming you blend in.
- Katherine, Los angeles, CA , 03-02-14 ( Reply)
Katherine...Cover the surface with water and cook down.
- David McKaig, Swannanoa, NC , 03-03-14 ( Reply)
Loved this soup!Will it make again.
Delicious! Easy to make, tasty, and instantly pacifies me, a vata, and gratifies me, inside and out, throughout! Thankful for this recipe!
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