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How to Make Sour Tamarind ChutneySERVINGS: 6 PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
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| 5 clove | |
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PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Boil the tamarind in some water to loosen it if dried. Mix all ingredients together in quantities according to taste. Put enough oil to make it creamy, enough sugar to take away the sour. Put enough salt to bring out the flavor.
Cook on low heat for 6+hours. When done cover the top with oil to make a seal. Place on the windowsill for two weeks cooking in the sun. This achar tastes great with chicken, eggplant, or rice.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Sour taste is juicy! It causes salivation and primes the gastric fluids. Spices improve digestion. Causes loose stools. WHAT IS SOUR TAMARIND CHUTNEY?Achar means pickle in Bengali. Bengali's have a number of different pickles and chutneys using mangoes, tamarind, other fruits and spices. We love the sour, savory spiciness of tamarind achar. It is altogether over-stimulating!
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Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
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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).
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| HOT ABOUT HOT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Hot is identified by increased body temperature, metabolism, or inflammation.
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Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.
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Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.
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Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
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Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
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Heavy is identified by sedation, sluggishness, or increased weight.
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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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| PUNGENT ABOUT PUNGENT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Pungency is characterized by irritation, or sharp, spicy foods that irritate the mouth such as black pepper.
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people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
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Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
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The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
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Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
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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.
SEE ALL 'AROMATIC' FOODS / HERBS , AcridSTRONG ACRID
Acrid taste is a combination of bitter and pungent tastes. Example include radish, turnip, and coffee.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Sour Tamarind Chutney ![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.
Stomachic STOMACHIC
An herb that increases appetite or settles a nauseas or nervous stomach. These generally increase the digestive fire, therefore relieving symptoms of sluggish or difficult digestion.
SEE ALL 'STOMACHIC' FOODS / HERBS , Stool Softener STOOL-SOFTENER
Softens hard and difficult to eliminate stool. Stool softeners are the safest and most gentle type of laxative. Examples include warm milk with ghee.
SEE ALL 'STOOL-SOFTENER' 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 , , Warms Chest WARMS-CHEST
Warms the chest and lungs, clearing mucus and allowing for clear breathing. Often these herbs are hot, aromatic, and pungent.
SEE ALL 'WARMS-CHEST' FOODS / HERBS , , Expectorant EXPECTORANT
Expectorants help you eliminate mucus from the lungs. These herbs often work by increasing the quantity of mucus, or thinning the mucus. Expectorants are indicated when phlegm congests the lower respiratory tract.
SEE ALL 'EXPECTORANT' 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 , Vasodilator VASODILATOR
A vasodilator is an herb that widens the blood vessels by the relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, thereby increasing circulation systemically or to a local area.
SEE ALL 'VASODILATOR' FOODS / HERBS 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.
SEE ALL 'DIURETIC' FOODS / HERBS Cholagogue CHOLAGOGUE
Cholagogues stimulate the production & release of bile from the liver & gallbladder. This refreshes and cleanses these organs, as well as increases bile in the small intestines.
SEE ALL 'CHOLAGOGUE' FOODS / HERBS Antispasmodic ANTISPASMODIC
Herbs that reduce or inhibit muscle spasms or cramping, such as in asthma, menstruation, hear palpitations, migraine, or IBS.
SEE ALL 'ANTISPASMODIC' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Nitric Oxide NITRIC-OXIDE
Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
SEE ALL 'NITRIC-OXIDE' FOODS / HERBS , Fats, Saponins SAPONINS
Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
SEE ALL 'SAPONINS' FOODS / HERBS , 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.
SEE ALL 'INOSITOL' FOODS / HERBS , Sulphur, Sulfated Polysaccharides, Polysaccharides, Carbohydrate, Sodium, Essential Fatty Acids |
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