How to Make Spicy Pumpkin Chai
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SERVINGS:
2
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PREP TIME:
5 MINUTES
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COOK TIME:
0 MINUTES
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INGREDIENTS
2 tbsp | |
2 tbsp | |
1 c | |
1/2 c | |
1/4 tsp | |
1/4 tsp | |
2 pinch | |
2 pinch | |
1 pinch | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Buy pureed pumpkin in a can for a shorter prep time. Canned pumpkin is also less gassy than whole pumpkins.
To puree whole pumpkins:
1. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Baking makes the skin peel easily.
2. Chop and mix the pumpkin with the almond milk and spices and puree in a blender.
3. Bring to a boil in a saucepan and serve warm.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Like a steaming hot cup of liquid pumpkin pie, spicy pumpkin chai is warm, cozy, and colorful for the fall season and changing leaves. Almond milk adds grounding heartiness. Cooked pumpkins are soft and comforting- perfect to warm and soften a dry, windy fall day.
De-Stress with Pumpkin Chai
Autumn is a
season of deficiency and change, provoking higher stress levels. Your body needs help weathering the changes of autumn. Nourishing, seasonal foods like pumpkin and nervines like nutmeg make you feel calm and stable. Pumpkin and nutmeg are both mild sedatives, so they work beautifully together to reduce stress.
Choose an evening in, sipping steaming Pumpkin Chai over constant socialization. Wearing yourself ragged keeping up with October's social calendar can result in compromised immunity for flu season come November. Focusing attention inward frees up energy to help your body prepare for winter. According to Ayurveda, keeping your nervous system stable through fall is your No. 1 tool for maintaining strong immunity and staying healthy.
Protect Yourself from Fall Deficiency
In fall when the temperature starts to drop, your body scrambles to protect itself from heat loss. Nourishing foods are enticing, helping to fortify deficient tissue, thicken your skin, and insulate from the cold. In addition to nourishing tissue, pumpkin chai is also a
rasayana (meaning tonic). Pumpkins, ghee, almonds, and sugar all build
ojas in time for the coming winter. Ojas is Ayurveda's word for nourishment - offering strength, immunity and a sparkle in your eye. Pumpkin Chai is perfectly nourishing and fortifying, calming your nervous system and strengthening your deepest cells.
Pumpkins are orange because of beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. Beta-carotene is also in carrots and encourages healing through rejuvenation and regeneration of tissue. Orange foods with beta-carotene are generally liver tonics that clear any residue of the heat damage from the weather and intensity of the summer. They also purify the blood and soothe the eyes. The cooling demulcent and laxative properties of pumpkin soothe the GI tract.
Spiced to Taste & Digest
Spices make these heavy ingredients lighter for digestion, and pumpkin a bit less gas-forming. While all spices stimulate circulation, cloves specifically move heat to the surface of the body, warming up cold extremities. For Kapha types reduce ghee to one tsp and substitute one tbsp honey instead of sugar.
WHAT IS SPICY PUMPKIN CHAI?
AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
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.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
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