COOKING A VEDIC MEAL

  VATA  BALANCING

PITTA  BALANCING

KAPHA  BALANCING

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         on Balancing VATA, PITTA and KAPHA.

A typical lunch meal can include: rice, bean dahl, cooked vegetables, chapati bread, fruit chutney, small salad -- something fresh, and a lasi (yogurt drink) or fruit drink (lemon water), and something sweet (a dessert). Most of the time the main meal is best eaten at noon when the digestive system is the strongest. In the morning and evening, digestion is less active and generally you take smaller lighter meals. Don’t be discouraged, a meal can have all the tastes in just two or three dishes, but for the gourmet it can involve up to a dozen.

To make an Ayur-vedic meal is simple and efficient. It should take less than an hour to prepare a whole meal. Being prepared and organized will help. Start with measuring and rinsing the dahl and rice. Then make pannier and bread dough. Next start cooking the dahl and rice, (some dahls need to be pre-soaked over night and started cooking first thing). Then start the chutney and cutting up the vegetables. You should have easy access to your spices and your ingredients. By putting items away right after you use them you won’t have such a mess at the end. Then prepare for the next day by soaking beans and making yogurt.

There is something blissful and enlivening when making a Ayur-vedic meal. Once you become familiar with cooking, using the different spices vegetables and beans etc., it becomes spontaneous. You start using your imagination and creativity with an infinite variety of possibilities to make dishes and menus that satisfy and nourish everyone. Recipes are ideas that help us fulfill our own cooking and dietary needs, with the materials that are at hand or in season. Generally all the recipes in this book serve 2-3 people unless otherwise indicated. For those who want to cook a dish for the whole family each can add Vata, Pitta or Kapha churnas as they need to balance any dish.

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SAMPLE RECIPES FROM THE VEDIC CUISINE COOKBOOK

* The recipes are simple and easy to follow, one to a page, and they are fun to do.

* This book is for those who do not like complicated recipe books.

* When you see the recipes and you what to do them.

 * The 3rd section of the book "Enjoy the Bliss" is for when you feel balanced and want to enjoy a smorgasbord of East Indian and favorite International dishes.

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