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Corn Chowder With Coconut Butter Cream Sauce


How to Make Corn Chowder with Coconut Butter Cream Sauce

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

1. Prepare coconut butter from flakes or use store bought coconut butter.

2. Coarsely chop cauliflower and cover with water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer.

3. Finely chop garlic and ginger. Cube potatoes into bite sized chunks.

4. Add all ingredients except cauliflower to a large soup pot. Cover vegetables with water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer.

5. Once cauliflower is soft, mash with a potato masher. Gently stir creamed cauliflower into the larger soup pot with other ingredients.

6. Continue simmering until potato is soft. Serve.

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CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE INSIGHTS

This vegan corn chowder is a light & hearty alternative to chowders with heavy cream, and much tastier. The cream sauce consists of mashed cauliflower and coconut butter seasoned with garlic and ginger.

Constitutional nutrition is tailored to the individual. In the kitchen, especially during your family’s formative years, you shape your family's lifelong health.

Understanding your child's constitution is key to raising resilience, instead of wiring in disease. Study constitutional medicine to discover the keys to personalized nourishment.

Rooted in the insights curated from Ayurveda and Greek medicine, constitutional medicine teaches you which foods match your body, so you and your family have true vitality, strength, and balance. See How it Works.

Is Corn Chowder with Coconut Butter Cream Sauce a Good Match for My Body?

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Medicinal Effects of Corn Chowder with Coconut Butter Cream Sauce

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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LIQUEFIED

ABOUT LIQUEFIED BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.

Active Ingredients: Garlic, Cauliflower

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HEAVY

ABOUT HEAVY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Potato, Garlic

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CLEAR

ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.

Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt), Ginger (Fresh)

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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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COLD

ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Potato

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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: Potato, Coconut Flakes, Corn

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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

Crunchy

CRUNCHY

Makes an audible noise when you eat them. Can provide fun texture variation.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Aromatic

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: Ginger (Fresh)

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Corn Chowder with Coconut Butter Cream Sauce
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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Makes You Tired

STRONG MAKES-YOU-TIRED

Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.

Active Ingredients: Potato, Garlic

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Nerve Relaxant Grounding

STRONG 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: Potato

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Wakes You Up

MILD WAKES-YOU-UP

Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Strengthens Resolve

MILD STRENGTHENS-RESOLVE

Increases determination and courage by reducing stress and building strength.

Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)

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Stimulates Energy

STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Ginger (Fresh)

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Satisfies Stomach

STRONG SATISFIES-STOMACH

Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.

Active Ingredients: Potato, Corn

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Refreshing

MILD REFRESHING

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

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Diaphoretic

MILD DIAPHORETIC

An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.

Active Ingredients: Garlic

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Irritates Throat

IRRITATES-THROAT

Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.

Active Ingredients: Garlic, Ginger (Fresh)

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Flushes Sinuses

MILD FLUSHES-SINUSES

An herb that relieves sinus congestion by flushing out mucus.

Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)

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Cardiac Stimulant

MILD CARDIAC-STIMULANT

Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.

Active Ingredients: Ginger (Fresh)

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Diuretic

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: Garlic, Corn

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Constituents:
Soluble Fiber

STRONG SOLUBLE-FIBER

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes, Potato

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Phosphorous

STRONG PHOSPHOROUS

Active Ingredients: Potato, Garlic, Corn

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Carbohydrate

STRONG CARBOHYDRATE

Active Ingredients: Potato, Corn

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Vitamin C

STRONG VITAMIN-C

Active Ingredients: Potato, Cauliflower

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Potassium

STRONG POTASSIUM

Active Ingredients: Potato, Cauliflower

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Nitric Oxide

STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE

Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.

Active Ingredients: Cauliflower, Garlic

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Aromatase Inhibitor

AROMATASE-INHIBITOR

Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.

Active Ingredients: Corn, Cauliflower

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Fats

FATS

Active Ingredients: Coconut Flakes

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Sodium

SODIUM

Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)

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Sulphur

MILD SULPHUR

Active Ingredients: Garlic

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Sulfated Polysaccharides

MILD SULFATED-POLYSACCHARIDES

Active Ingredients: Garlic

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Vitamin K

MILD VITAMIN-K

Active Ingredients: Cauliflower

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Salicylates

MILD SALICYLATES

Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.

Active Ingredients: Cauliflower

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Saponins

MILD SAPONINS

Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).

Active Ingredients: Garlic

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Polysaccharides

MILD POLYSACCHARIDES

Active Ingredients: Garlic

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Folate

MILD FOLATE

Active Ingredients: Cauliflower

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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: Corn

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Melatonin

MILD MELATONIN

Active Ingredients: Corn

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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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