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How to Make Cashew Sour CreamSERVINGS: 4 PREP TIME: 20 MINUTES COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
1. For best results, soak cashews in water overnight to remove phytates (anti-nutrients). In a pinch, you can get away with soaking chopped cashews for only ten minutes in hot water.
2. The next day, or at the end of soaking, strain and discard the water the cashews have been resting in.
3. Add soaked cashews to a high powered blender with 1 cup of fresh water,mineral salt, and 2tbsp lemon juice or ACV.
4. Blend cashews and all other ingredients until the mixture is completely smooth and creamy.
5. Serve as you would like a traditional dairy sour cream!
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Decadently creamy, with a full and warm feel in your mouth and the slight pucker of sour, Cashew Sour Cream offers you a plant-based alternative to the typical dairy option.
This smooth and velvety whipped base is versatile! Make it into a sweet treat using our Sweet Cashew Whipped Cream recipe and use it as a topping or a base for desserts. Whether made sour, sweet, or salty, this recipe will leave you feeling content, with a warm, satisfied belly.
Cashew Sour Cream is nourishing to your system. Naturally sweet and earthy, cashew will comfort and calm your frazzled nerves with their oily nature. This recipe soothes ambient stress with its heaviness, as cashews are both Ojas building and grounding. As an added bonus, their magnesium content relaxes muscles.
Because the sour taste has the element of fire in its makeup, it cuts through the heaviness of the buttery cashews, increasing the digestibility of their rich fat content.
Sour taste encourages secretions throughout your entire digestive tract, moisturizing your gut. It stimulates your body to release oily bile from your liver, gently cleansing both liver and blood of fats by pulling them into the digestive tract.
The antioxidant rich vitamin C of the lemons and Apple Cider Vinegar can boost immunity. These elements together create a combination that can help to carry you through the last stretches of the cold season.
AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
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.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
See How it Works.
Is Cashew Sour Cream Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?
Find out by taking this free, easy quiz.
You'll learn your body type, and whether 'Cashew Sour Cream' is a good fit.
Complete the basic quiz in 1 minute, or go deeper with additional quizzes at your own leisure to learn more about your body.
See a complete list of all biocharacteristics.
INCREASES
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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| HOT ABOUT HOT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Hot is identified by increased body temperature, metabolism, or inflammation.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HOT HEAVY ABOUT HEAVY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HEAVY DRY ABOUT DRY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Dry is identified by lack of moisture, lack of fat, or anything that causes diuresis.
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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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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Cashew Sour Cream 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.
Calms Heart CALMS-HEART
An herb that literally calms the heart. These herbs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, sadness, depression, or other emotional imbalances in the heart. Related to the Chinese Herbal Category 'calms spirit.'
SEE ALL 'CALMS-HEART' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Protein, , Phytates 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.
SEE ALL 'PHYTATES' FOODS / HERBS , Fats, Zinc, Sodium, Rutin 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.
SEE ALL 'RUTIN' FOODS / HERBS , , , Flavonoids 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.
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Foods with a Similar Nature to Cashew Sour Cream
Lemon
Lemon has these Actions in Common
Relaxes-eyes, Diaphoretic, Refreshes-skin, Wakes-you-up, General-laxative, Refreshing, Calms-heart, Quenches-thirst
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Acai
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General-laxative, Refreshing, Nutritive, Relaxes-eyes, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up
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Orange
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Nutritive, Refreshing, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up, Refreshes-skin
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Buffalo Milk
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Quenches-thirst, Builds-stamina, Satisfies-stomach, Nutritive, Soothes-throat
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Pineapple
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Refreshing, General-laxative, Relaxes-eyes, Quenches-thirst, Wakes-you-up
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Wasabi
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Herb Supplements with a Similar Nature to Cashew Sour Cream
Regular exercise
Regular exercise has these Actions in Common
Diaphoretic, Refreshes-skin, Refreshing, Strengthens-resolve, Wakes-you-up, Builds-stamina
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Amalaki
Amalaki has these Actions in Common
Nutritive, Quenches-thirst, Refreshing, Relaxes-eyes, Wakes-you-up, General-laxative
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Sniff raw onions, chopped
Sniff raw onions, chopped has these Actions in Common
Diaphoretic, Flushes-sinuses, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up
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Vata Shirodhara Oil
Vata Shirodhara Oil has these Actions in Common
Calms-heart, Nutritive, Relaxes-eyes, Strengthens-resolve
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External Breath (Bahya Pranayama)
External Breath (Bahya Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Builds-stamina, General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up
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Breathing Exercises
Breathing Exercises has these Actions in Common
Builds-stamina, General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up
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Shatavari
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Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama)
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General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up, Builds-stamina
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Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama)
Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Builds-stamina, General-laxative, Refreshing, Wakes-you-up
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Solomon's Seal
Solomon's Seal has these Actions in Common
Nutritive, Quenches-thirst, Refreshing
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Pitta Shirodhara Oil
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Calms-heart, Nutritive, Relaxes-eyes
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About the Author
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda biocharacteristics.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
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 7 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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