Rustic Rice With Wild Lamb's Quarters & Mushrooms |
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How to Make Rustic Rice with Wild Lamb's Quarters & MushroomsSERVINGS: 4 PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES COOK TIME: 45 MINUTES
INGREDIENTS
| 1/2 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 2 tsp | |
| 2 lbs | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/2 tsp | |
| 1/4 tsp | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
1. Dice 1/2 of a medium yellow onion. Heat 2 cups water to a boil in a teakettle or saucepan.
2. Meanwhile, sautee diced onion in 2 tbsp ghee in large pot. When the onions turn translucent, add rice & sunflower seeds. Roast the rice and seeds until slightly browned, releasing a rich aroma into the room. Then pour in your boiling water and add salt.
Cover and reduce the heat. Let simmer until all the water is absorbed and rice is tender. This usually takes about 45 minutes.
3. In a frying pan or cast iron, sautee mushrooms in 1 tsp ghee. When the mushrooms are tender and fully cooked, add lamb's quarters. Sautee for 2 minutes and remove from heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. To serve, scoop your hearty sunflower rice onto a plate. Place a serving of lamb's quarter mushrooms on top of the rice. Enjoy!
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Nourish, strengthen, and ground your body with the rustic and earthy flavors of brown rice, mushrooms, and wild harvested lamb's quarters. This hearty dish will satisfy and sustain you. It is excellent for flighty Vata and quick-to-act Pitta due to its stable nature and high protein content. If brown rice is too tough for delicate Vata type digestion, substitute white basmati rice. Adding extra black pepper will increase the digestive fire for Kapha. WHAT IS RUSTIC RICE WITH WILD LAMB'S QUARTERS & MUSHROOMS?The hearty, rich flavor of Lamb's quarters, abundant in nature and urban settings, is a perfect complement to woody, earthy mushrooms and rustic brown rice. Shitakes, oyster mushrooms, thinly sliced portabellos, and common criminis from the grocery store are all excellent choices. If you are a mushroom hunter, pick lamb's quarters while out on your foraging exhibition to enjoy a truly wild-crafted meal. Due to their abundance, Lamb's quarters are an excellent first adventure into the world of harvesting your dinner directly from the earth.
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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![Guna Help]()
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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| MOBILE ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.
LEARN MORE ABOUT MOBILE HEAVY ABOUT HEAVY BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.
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Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
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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.
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| BITTER ABOUT BITTER BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Bitter taste has cholagogue action - it is cold, clear, light, and stimulating. It increases digestive enzymes, laxative, and drying.
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Astringency is characterized by constriction, drawing together, or drying.
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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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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Rustic Rice with Wild Lamb's Quarters & Mushrooms ![Help]() 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.
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 , , , Anxiolytic ANXIOLYTIC
Herbs that help people suffering from anxiety or panic. They promote a state of calm and often improve sleep. Most anxiolytic herbs are also nervines.
SEE ALL 'ANXIOLYTIC' FOODS / HERBS , , , Tonic 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.
SEE ALL 'TONIC' FOODS / HERBS , Cardiac Stimulant CARDIAC-STIMULANT
Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
SEE ALL 'CARDIAC-STIMULANT' FOODS / HERBS , Blood Tonic BLOOD-TONIC
An herb that produces more blood cells in the body, or otherwise improves blood cell quality or hemoglobin content. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency.
SEE ALL 'BLOOD-TONIC' FOODS / HERBS Muscle Tonic MUSCLE-TONIC
Herbs that strengthen and tone muscle tissue. Helpful for people recovering from long term illness and debility, or after a sprain.
SEE ALL 'MUSCLE-TONIC' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Protein, Phytates 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.
SEE ALL 'PHYTATES' FOODS / HERBS , Fats, Polysaccharides, Vitamin E, Saponins SAPONINS
Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
SEE ALL 'SAPONINS' FOODS / HERBS , Sulphur, Sodium, Sulfated Polysaccharides, Carbohydrate, , Inositol 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.
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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,
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Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
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