
Cool, soothing, and nourishing, it's no surprise that Coconut Rice is a staple of so many tropical cuisines. Your digestion is much weaker when the weather is warm than when it is cool. Luckily, coconut rice is easy enough for your body to break down...
Shake things up and experiment with Coconut & Cilantro Savory Pancakes. These are unlike your average run-of-the-mill pancakes. Sprinkled with chewy coconut and bright cilantro. They're impossible to resist!Appropriate for any meal of the day,...
Enjoy the satisfying creaminess of piping hot oatmeal topped with the nutty aroma of roasted sesame and coconut. As the weather turns cool in early fall, your body seems to crave the hearty warmth of roasted nuts & grains. Here the bold & flavorful...
To all people who don't like beets: they get sweeter the longer you cook them. I add a dash of turbinado or raw sugar to help them along. Coconut also cuts the bitterness and adds a smooth, rich flavor. Pungent ginger complements and freshens the...
Simple, cleansing, sweet, tangy, and tart, this recipe is our favorite weight loss breakfast for Kapha dosha. Enjoy the fresh, clean juiciness of biting into a plump...
Coconut mint chutney is an Indian classic and one of our favorites. Used as ubiquitously as our beloved ketchup, coconut mint chutney is a refreshing garnish on dosas (fried savory pancakes), curries, potato, chick peas and just about any dish.
Taste the prana of living food - experiment with sprouted mung beans. The colorful green of the bean balanced with white. Coconut adds aroma and comfort to legumes/daals. Discovered in East Moriches, Long Island, NY.
The coconut is a delight for the senses and the body, the very symbol of tropical paradise. This idyllic and fun tree nut restores your balance and harmony. Among oils it is light and sweet to cook with, soothing to the skin and nerves, nourishing...
Coconut provides an undertone while fresh mint livens. Sunflower seed pesto is perfect as a dip or salad dressing.
Fresh and juicy, grapefruit is sour and bitter to taste. Cloves and cinnamon add pungency. Altogether like a purifying spa, this broiled grapefruit recipe is the perfect cleansing food when the liver and blood are stagnant in winter. It will reset your...
Dates are the tropical fruit of the first decade in millenium 2000. Coconut brings texture and fats.
Light, fresh and cooling, 'Grapefruit, Quinoa & Fennel Salad with Mint' will help you beat the heat this summer. Unwind with friends outside on a warm June afternoon with a generous bowl and feel the stress of your day start to melt away. Quinoa leaves...
Sweet, soothing Honey Coco Butter is a treat that turns any hum-drum, overcast winter's day into a special occasion. Delectably sweet honey is transformed into a creamy stand-alone dessert by rich coco-butter. Like it right off the spoon!
The vital green, almost fluorescent, of ginger and fennel. Smooth coconut flakes, heavy, give softness to this spice combination. Works beautifully with Kale and dark leafies.
Grapefruit and fennel are ideal for late winter. The sour and bitter taste of grapefruit cleanses the liver. Fennel is both a digestive and a diuretic flushing excess water retention.
Simple, cleansing, sweet, bitter and citric!
This recipe is specially formulate as an early Autumn tonic for Vata deficiency.
Coconut and raw sugar is building. To help digest heavy ingredients, we've included cardamom, a combination which also happens to taste great!
This recipe nourishes Kapha but leaves the stomach feeling light and energized. Sour grapefruit, balsamic, and bitter radicchio cleanse the liver.
The crisp crunch of 'Seaweed and Baby Kale Tabouli' will refresh and revitalize the body on a warm afternoon. Prepare for lunch and enjoy outside under an early summer blue sky, or bring to work and brighten up a long day. You'll feel light and...
These ingredients supply iodine and selenium to support thyroid.
This easy to digest but nourishing dish is perfect for someone with low agni. Bitters and spices are included to stimulate digestive enzymes, and direct food down.
This recipe is designed to decongest the lymphatic system through diuresis, blood thinning, and bitter cholagogue. It is light yet satisfying.
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’