Tempeh, Bean Sprouts & Cucumber With Mint Coconut Sauce |
| 32 g | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1/4 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1 c | |
| 1/2 inch | |
| 1/2 whole | |
| 1/3 tsp | |
| 1/4 c |
Sautee onions in 2 tbsp oil. Puree 1/4tsp salt, cilantro, ginger, coconut milk, and water in a blender. Pour over onions and bring to a boil. What's the point of fried food if it's not crispy? For maximum crisp sautee tempeh in remaining oil immediately before serving. Then sprinkle with 1/8 tsp salt and garnish with the bean sprouts, cucumber, mint and basil. Squeeze and sprinkle with lime. Finally, pour the sauce and serve.
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Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Basil, Mint, Bean Sprouts, Cucumber, Lime, Water
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Cucumber, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Milk, Bean Sprouts, Lime, Water
Active Ingredients: Basil, Mint, Bean Sprouts, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Basil, Cucumber, Mint, Salt (Mineral Salt), Ginger (Fresh), Lime, Water
Active Ingredients: Basil, Cilantro, Bean Sprouts, Cucumber
Active Ingredients: Basil, Cilantro, Mint, Salt (Mineral Salt), Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Tempeh, Bean Sprouts
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.
Active Ingredients: Basil, Mint, Ginger (Fresh)
Active Ingredients: Bean Sprouts
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Lime, Water
Active Ingredients: Mint, Lime, Ginger (Fresh)
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: Coconut Milk, Tempeh
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: Mint
MILD STIMULATES-CROWN Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area at the top of the head.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD RELAXES-EYES Eases tension in eye muscles, so the eyes feel less strained, often by supporting the liver.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk
MILD DOPAMINERGIC Dopamine lifts mood, but also reduces prolactin, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and lutenizing hormone (LH).
Active Ingredients: Mint
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Coconut Milk, Mint, Ginger (Fresh)
STRONG REFRESHING Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Mint, Ginger (Fresh), Lime
MILD SATISFIES-STOMACH Provides a sense of gratification and fullness in the stomach.
Active Ingredients: Coconut Milk, Tempeh
STRONG NUTRITIVE An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.
Active Ingredients: Sunflower Oil, Coconut Milk, Cucumber, Tempeh
Active Ingredients: Basil, Mint, Lime
MILD REFRESHES-SKIN Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD SOOTHES-THROAT Soothes throat discomfort, including from a sore or ticklish throat.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber, Coconut Milk
STRONG ANTI-INFLAMMATORY Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Basil, Coconut Milk, Cucumber, Ginger (Fresh)
MILD 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: Basil, Ginger (Fresh)
MILD WARMS-HEAD An herb that increases sensations of heat and warmth in the head.
Active Ingredients: Basil
MILD WARMS-EARS Stimulates peripheral circulation to warm extremities, including the ears.
Active Ingredients: Basil
STRONG REFRIGERANT An herb or substance that strongly cools the body. Can be helpful in cases of heat conditions.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Cucumber, Bean Sprouts, Coconut Milk, Lime
MILD 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.
Active Ingredients: Bean Sprouts
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: Cilantro, Basil, Cucumber, Tempeh
STRONG 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.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Lime, Salt (Mineral Salt)
STRONG NITRIC-OXIDE Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
Active Ingredients: Basil, Cilantro, Cucumber
STRONG COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Mint
Active Ingredients: Cilantro, Lime
Active Ingredients: Basil, Mint
MILD SAPONINS Can be used to make soap. Saponins stimulate mucus membrane secretion, liquefying mucus for easy removal (expectorant).
Active Ingredients: Bean Sprouts, Yellow Onion
MILD FATS Active Ingredients: Sunflower Oil, Coconut Milk
MILD IRON Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.
Active Ingredients: Mint, Tempeh
MILD VITAMIN-K Active Ingredients: Cucumber
MILD BETA-CAROTENE Active Ingredients: Basil
MILD SALICYLATES Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.
Active Ingredients: Cucumber
MILD RUTIN Rutin is a flavonoid with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Commonly used to treat conditions such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and high blood pressure.
Active Ingredients: Lime
MILD SODIUM Active Ingredients: Salt (Mineral Salt)
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people personalized diet, lifestyle and herbs through Classical Metabolic Theory (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine). His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful. John also directs the Joyful Belly College, offering professional clinical training for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, virtue psychology through classical & Christian philosophy, languages, cooking & 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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