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How to Make Coconut Milk, Chia Seed & Vanilla Bean PuddingSERVINGS: 4 PREP TIME: 10 MINUTES COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
1. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean.
2. Add to a large bowl with coconut milk, 1/4 cup water and chia seeds.
3. Whisk, leave stand for 10 minutes and whisk again to prevent lumps.
4. Let stand in the fridge for at least 3 hours, overnight is preferable.
Optional Caramel Date Layer:
1. Remove pits from 1/2 cup medjool dates and chop finely.
2. Blend with 1/4 cup coconut milk until it reaches a thick, caramel consistency.
3. Add a layer to the bottom of your individual serving dishes (the more you add the sweeter this pudding will be).
4. Pour your chia seed mixture on top.
5. Cover and stand in the fridge.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
If you're looking for simple & easy smiles, try this 'Coconut Milk, Chia Seed & Vanilla Bean Pudding'. Sweet coconut milk & chia seed pudding is the ultimate soothing & nourishing dessert. With not much more to do than combine the ingredients and let sit, this no effort recipe is suitable for even the novice chef. You can easily give this dish a gourmet feel by creating a caramel date sauce - a sweeter option to serve at your next supper club evening.
Chia seeds have the unique texture of being both gooey and crunchy at the same time when soaked. Their hydrophilic properties (ability to absorb considerable amounts of water) results in a jelly like substance that holds a chia pudding together. They encourage peristalsis and healthy elimination while satisfying the appetite, meaning you won't over eat on this dessert.
Chia seeds' slightly sweet, relatively neutral taste, makes them a perfect base to add as much or as little flavor as you like, so experiment! This pudding will be too heavy and sweet for Kapha so they should add a little cinnamon and ground ginger to lighten the load on digestion.
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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
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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| GOOEY ABOUT GOOEY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Gooey is identified by anything gelatinous (such as oatmeal), or by mucus congestion.
LEARN MORE ABOUT GOOEY | 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.
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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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| | HAS THE FOLLOWING | Moves Energy:
Downward DOWNWARD
Downward-moving (Adho Gati Marga) substances move food downward in the GI tract, settle the nervous system, and relax muscles.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Coconut Milk, Chia Seed & Vanilla Bean Pudding 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.
, High Fiber Laxative HIGH-FIBER-LAXATIVE
A class of laxative that adds bulk and water to stools. The large size of the stool stimulates peristalsis so the stool can pass more easily through the colon. It is important to drink plenty of water when using high fiber laxatives, as they can be dehydr
SEE ALL 'HIGH-FIBER-LAXATIVE' 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 Demulcent DEMULCENT
Herbs that coat or form a soothing film over a mucous membrane, relieving minor pain and inflammation of the membrane.
SEE ALL 'DEMULCENT' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Alpha Linolenic Acid, Fats, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, Soluble Fiber, , Calcium CALCIUM
Calcium nourishes bones and muscles. A muscle cell is activated when calcium enters the cell. It relaxes when the calcium is secreted.
SEE ALL 'CALCIUM' FOODS / HERBS , , Protein, Essential Fatty Acids, Saponins SAPONINS
Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
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This is a good start for s chia pudding. I mixed a small amount of maple syrup into the coconut milk and I added 1/4 cup of hot water just to blend the solid coconut milk into the liquid part. Then I added a quarter teaspoon of cardamom and a small pinch of Himalayan salt and dry Ginger. Finally since it was the middle of summer I blended a frozen banana with a little bit of water and mix them into the pudding along with the vanilla extract as I didn't have a vanilla bean. It was wonderfully cooling and soothing.
- Camilla , 06-02-19 ( Reply)
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