Plantain Yule With Chocolate Chips & Cranberry, Topped With Rosemary Meringue |
| 2 lbs | |
| 1/2 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 6 whole | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 2 tsp | |
| 2 c | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1 tsp | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
* Heat cranberries, allspice, ginger, and 1/4c sugar into a boil with 1/4c water. Mash with a potato masher as cranberries pop.
* Whip egg whites and cream of tartar in stand mixer while slowly pouring in 1/3c sugar to make a meringue. Stop when peaks are stiff.
* Puree plantains, vanilla extra, cinnamon, oil and 1/8tsp salt in a blender.
* Gently fold plantain puree with 1/2 of the meringue in a large bowl until mix is even.
* Spread on a cookie sheet with parchment paper that has been greased with oil. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
* Place a hand towel over the sheet and roll into a yule while hot.
* Meanwhile, drip 4 drops rosemary essential oil in 1 tsp oil. Then fold into the remaining meringue taking care to spread evenly.
* On another cookie sheet and using a pastry bag, design 15 or so 3 inch long meringue strips to place atop yule cross sections (see photo).
* Lower oven heat to 250 and bake slowly until meringue edges are brown. Let cool then lift from parchment paper carefully.
* Unroll the Yule. Sprinkle dark chocolate chips atop the sheet. Spread cranberry jam evenly over the sheet. Roll it back up and slice into 1/2 - 1" long strips.
* Place rosemary meringue strips atop the plantain rolls.
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Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Ginger (Dried), Rosemary, Allspice, Chocolate (Cacao)
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Ginger (Dried), Allspice, Rosemary, Salt (Mineral Salt)
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Ginger (Dried), Green Plantain
Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Cinnamon, Egg Whites
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Cinnamon, Allspice, Rosemary, Green Plantain
Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Cranberry, Cinnamon, Green Plantain
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.
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The 3 metabolic body types (doshas), are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
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Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Rosemary, Allspice
Active Ingredients: Allspice
Active Ingredients: Rosemary
MILD STIMULATES-PERISTALSIS An herb that promotes involuntary smooth muscle contractions to facilitate the movement of food and waste through the digestive tract.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
MILD APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain.
Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
STRONG MAKES-YOU-TIRED Induces drowsiness and promotes sound sleep.
Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
STRONG WAKES-YOU-UP Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.
Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
STRONG MAKES-JITTERY Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar
MILD NUMBS-ANASTHETIC Inhibits sensation in a particular area.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
MILD STIMULATES-FRONT-OF-BRAIN Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
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: Green Plantain
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Ginger (Dried), Rosemary, Allspice, Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
STRONG DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Ginger (Dried), Rosemary
MILD REDUCES-SWEATING Suppresses sweating, often by cooling the metabolism, reducing blood flow to the skin, or closing pores.
Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
STRONG WARMS-CHEST Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Ginger (Dried), Rosemary, Allspice
STRONG IRRITATES-THROAT Creates abrasive feeling in the back of the mouth. May stimulate coughing.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon, Ginger (Dried), Allspice
STRONG SOOTHES-THROAT Soothes throat discomfort, including from a sore or ticklish throat.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
MILD LUMP-IN-THROAT Makes you feel like there is a ball of tension around the Adam's Apple area.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
MILD CLEARS-SINUSES Cleanses sinuses by draining excess mucus, allowing for clear, easy breathing.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
STRONG 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: Cinnamon, Ginger (Dried), Allspice, Rosemary
Active Ingredients: Ginger (Dried)
MILD WARMS-HEAD An herb that increases sensations of heat and warmth in the head.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
MILD 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.'
Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
STRONG 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: Cranberry, Cinnamon
MILD DRIES-MOUTH Makes the mouth feel dry, or pasty.
Active Ingredients: Allspice
STRONG MUSCLE-RELAXANT Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.
Active Ingredients: Rosemary, Allspice, Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG TANNINS Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Green Plantain, Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG CATECHINS Antioxidant that reduces cancer and blood clots, dilates blood vessels, and is antimicrobial.
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Cinnamon
STRONG RESVERATROL Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG POLYPHENOLS Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.
Active Ingredients: Cranberry, Chocolate (Cacao)
STRONG SOLUBLE-FIBER Active Ingredients: Cranberry
STRONG AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Cranberry
STRONG VITAMIN-E Active Ingredients: Cranberry
STRONG VITAMIN-C Active Ingredients: Cranberry
STRONG CARBOHYDRATE Active Ingredients: Raw Sugar, Green Plantain
MILD SALICYLATES Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.
Active Ingredients: Rosemary
MILD ROSMARINIC-ACID Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.
Active Ingredients: Rosemary
MILD NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD PROTEIN Active Ingredients: Egg Whites
MILD CAFFEINE-METHYLXANTHINES Methylxanthines are purine alkaloids that have a stimulant and bronchodilating effect.
Active Ingredients: Chocolate (Cacao)
MILD RESISTANT-STARCH Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
MILD POTASSIUM Active Ingredients: Green Plantain
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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