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Peach Blackberry Bake With Nut Crust


How to Make Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust

INGREDIENTS


SKILL LEVEL: EASY
3 tbsp
2 tbsp
1/3 c
5 whole
1 tbsp
1 tbsp
1 tbsp
1 c

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Slice peaches. Heat 1 tbsp of ghee in a large pan. Lightly sautee peaches and blackberries. Fill 8 small ramekins or one 9 inch by 13 inch glass or ceramic baking dish with filling. Set aside.

3. Coarsley chop almonds. Heat 1 tbsp of ghee in a small pan. When it is melted, add almonds, lemon zest and maple syrup. Fry while stirring for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. You should have a thick topping.

4. Spread topping over peach-blackberry mixture. Sprinkle with raw sugar. Bake for 20 minutes.

5. Remove from oven and let stand to cool. Garnish with fresh mint. Serve with coconut whipped cream if you like!






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CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE INSIGHTS

Sticky, sweet, and satisfying. Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust invites you to slow down and enjoy a still moment of sensuality. An aromatic dash of fresh mint is a bright surprise to the nose and taste-buds. Enjoy this dish with your sweetest friends!

Sticky Sweet Slow-Down

Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust brightens any mood served right out of the oven or chilled on a hot day. In the oven, peaches and berries release their juices to create a rich mixture whose sweet-tartness makes your mouth water. Enjoy the satisfying crunch of its sweet toasted almond and sugar crystal crust as it opens up to juicy-sweet peach, brightened by blackberry.

Enticing Aromatic

Your nose will tell you Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust is in the works, calling you to the kitchen from down the hall or down the street. Almonds are a major player in this combination of scent, releasing oils that charge the air. When it comes to its aphrodisiac and reproductive support qualities, almonds are second to none. Don't you find its sweet flavor and aroma sensual and enticing?

Juicy Decadence


This ultra-juicy dessert is highly medicinal for vata dosha, for whom sweet taste offers the sensation of coming home. Sours lubricate the dry GI tract of Vata, while nuts provide substantial oils and energy. Pitta will also benefit from sweet and sour tastes, but should pay attention to how their body reacts to warming peaches. Some balance is offered by cooling maple syrup which tonifies the blood. This fruit and sugars will provoke Kapha dosha, who may feel sticky and heavy after eating. That said, when Kapha has a hankering for a decadent dessert, Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust is much easier on the body than chocolate cake with all the satisfaction.

Ripe vs. Underripe


Choose your peaches carefully! For a more crisp, bright, astringent taste, favor slightly underripe peaches. For full-on decadence and juice, choose ripe peaches.
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Medicinal Effects of Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust

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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MOBILE

ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Lemon Zest, Mint

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CLEAR

ABOUT CLEAR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

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

Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest, Peaches, Mint

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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: Raw Sugar, Peaches, Maple Syrup, Almonds, Blackberry, Ghee

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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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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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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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Other Health Virtues

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: Lemon Zest, Mint

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Crunchy

MILD CRUNCHY

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

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Peach Blackberry Bake with Nut Crust
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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Quenches Thirst

MILD QUENCHES-THIRST

An herb or substance that relieves thirst.

Active Ingredients: Peaches

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Wakes You Up

STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP

Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.

Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest, Raw Sugar, Mint

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Makes You Tired

MILD MAKES-YOU-TIRED

Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar

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Makes Jittery

MILD MAKES-JITTERY

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar

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Nerve Relaxant Grounding

MILD 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: Almonds

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Refreshing

REFRESHING

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

Active Ingredients: Lemon Zest, Mint

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Stimulates Energy

MILD STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

Active Ingredients: Almonds, Mint

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Builds Stamina

MILD BUILDS-STAMINA

Promotes strength, endurance and resistance in the body. Rebuilds weak tissues after a time of depletion.

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Satisfies Stomach

MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH

Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Tonic

MILD 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.

Active Ingredients: Almonds, Ghee

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Nutritive

STRONG NUTRITIVE

An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Almonds, Peaches, Ghee, Maple Syrup, Blackberry

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Promotes Fertility

MILD PROMOTES-FERTILITY

An herb that promotes fertility. Generally used by women who wish to become pregnant. These herbs may also help with menstrual problems of deficiency, such as amenorrhea (lack of a period).

Active Ingredients: Ghee

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Promotes Virility

MILD PROMOTES-VIRILITY

Encourages virility and potency.

Active Ingredients: Almonds, Ghee

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Muscle Relaxant

MILD MUSCLE-RELAXANT

Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Constituents:
Tannins

MILD TANNINS

Active Ingredients: Almonds, Blackberry

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Carbohydrate

MILD CARBOHYDRATE

Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar

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Fats

MILD FATS

Active Ingredients: Almonds, Ghee

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Coumarin

MILD COUMARIN

Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.

Active Ingredients: Mint

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Inositol

MILD INOSITOL

Inositol is an alcohol sugar made naturally in the human body from glucose. It is lipotropic (aiding fat metabilism in the liver). It affects a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, steroid, growth factors and water.

Active Ingredients: Peaches

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Vitamin E

MILD VITAMIN-E

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Melatonin

MILD MELATONIN

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Phosphorous

MILD PHOSPHOROUS

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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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: Almonds

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Magnesium

MILD MAGNESIUM

Helps muscles relax. Laxative.

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Protein

MILD PROTEIN

Active Ingredients: Almonds

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Salicylates

MILD SALICYLATES

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

Active Ingredients: Peaches

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About the Author

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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