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How to Make Thai Red Curry PasteSERVINGS: 24 PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES COOK TIME: 15 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: EASY
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: EASY
1 c | |
1/2 c | |
1 tbsp | |
2 tsp | |
2 tsp | |
2 clove | |
1 tsp | |
1 inch | |
1 whole | |
1/2 tsp | |
1/2 tsp | |
1/2 tsp | |
1/2 c | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
Add more/less chili as preferred. - Zest lime, juice lemon. Finely grind any whole spices.
- Grind chilis and salt with mortar and pestle for 5-10mins.
- Add remaining ingredients and keep grinding until a paste forms. This can be done in small food processors also.
Makes 24 2 tbsp servings.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
For the freshest curry paste, there's just no beating homemade! Enjoy the bright aroma of this Thai red curry paste. Take a tiny taste to experience an explosion of flavor as the bold chili, garlic, lemongrass and ginger dance across your tongue. The deep umami of the fish sauce floods the taste buds with savory satisfaction.
Use this paste as a flavorful foundation for your favorite Thai curries, soups and noodles and ensure clean bowls, every time.
Curry pastes impart the bright flavors so beloved in Thai cuisine. Once inside the body this paste is equally as hardworking.
The pungent, aromatic spices like chili, pepper and cumin help dry up mucus, clear the airways, stimulate digestion, and dilate the vessels for better circulation. The vigorous flavors are all particularly helpful qualities for Kapha bodies. Vatas can benefit from the paste's warmth, while the sourness of the citrus acts as a sialagogue, ensuring their GI doesn't get too dry. Pittas will benefit from using less paste and adding more cooling coconut milk to their Thai curries and soups.
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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INCREASES
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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| HOT ABOUT HOT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Hot is identified by increased body temperature, metabolism, or inflammation.
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Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.
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Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.
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Clear refers to anything that cleanses or flushes out wastes, or that digests ama.
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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.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
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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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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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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.
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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Thai Red Curry Paste 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.
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.
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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.
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Horseradish has these Actions in Common
Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Diuretic, Wakes-you-up, Cardiac-stimulant, Flushes-sinuses
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Decongestant, Flushes-sinuses, Diaphoretic, Refreshing, Cardiac-stimulant, Diuretic
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Decongestant, Flushes-sinuses, Diaphoretic, Cardiac-stimulant, Diuretic
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Black Pepper has these Actions in Common
Cardiac-stimulant, Flushes-sinuses, Decongestant, Diaphoretic
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John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
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John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
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John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem.
His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
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,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 7 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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