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1. Prepare chicken by removing skin and gizzards if necessary.
2. Add to a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and reduce to simmer with the lid slightly ajar for 60 minutes.
3. While the chicken is cooking, saute finely chopped onion, celery, white potato, fennel bulb and fennel seeds in ghee for 15 minutes.
4. After 60 minutes, remove the chicken and take the meat off the bone. At this point, blend the chicken stock and vegetables to make a smooth base.
5. Add chicken meat and asparagus stalks. Gently bring to a low boil for 15 minutes before serving.
6. Garnish with a pinch of black pepper on top.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
There's nothing like a steaming bowl of chicken soup when you're under the weather or recovering from an illness. It's wholesome, light and digests with ease. No wonder it's such a time honored remedy in households across America and beyond. This 'Chicken Soup with Asparagus & Fennel' has all that nurturing goodness of the traditional recipe, but with a hearty and comforting consistency as fennel, onion, celery and potato are blended to a smooth base.
Reduce Spring Water Weight
The combination of fennel and asparagus in this meal makes it is a top notch diuretic, expelling excess spring water retention and assisting the body to detoxify through the urinary system. Fennel supports all body types, soothes an irritated gut, reducing gas and bloating due to its carminative properties. Its cooling qualities also keeps the mind calm, cool and balanced. The fresh crisp and crunch of asparagus spears contain high levels of saponins and potassium which enhance the diuretic effect and further reduce puffiness and water weight - a true spring vegetable.
Recovery Mode
After an illness, it's vital to rebuild our strength through easy to digest meals like 'Chicken Soup with Asparagus & Fennel Seed'. Chicken is an easier to digest protein source than heavy red meats and should be favored when digestion is low. For those with weak digestion, the addition of some black pepper will kindle your digestive fire due to its pungent taste and also relieve any mucus congestion.
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 Chicken Soup with Asparagus & Fennel Seed Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?
Find out by taking this free, easy quiz.
You'll learn your body type, and whether 'Chicken Soup with Asparagus & Fennel Seed' 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.
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.
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?
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.
Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Chicken Soup with Asparagus & Fennel Seed
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.
Stimulates the release of gas. Helpful for bloating or cramping abdominal pain. Propels food downward. Carminatives typically expel gas by relaxing the muscles of the intestines.
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.
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 6 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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