Simple Ayurvedic Recipes

Simple Ayurvedic Recipes is a guide to creating quick, tasty, and balanced meals, combining the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with practical steps for the modern cook. This book captures the essence and impact of this natural approach, taking the guesswork out of meal preparation. Offering delicious food and spice combinations, the easy recipes are deeply nourishing and fully satisfying for all constitutions. The concepts and recipes in this book increase vitality and optimize well-being. They also support illness prevention and recovery. It inspires you to connect how you feel to what and how you are eating, with concise steps toward improvement. Simple Ayurvedic Recipes adds to the tools for vibrant living already provided in Lewin's first book Freedom in Your Relationship with Food.

In a culture driven by advertising, convenience, and weight-loss gimmicks, our relationship with food has become sadly out-of touch. Yoga teacher Myra Lewin encourages us to slow down and cultivate a healthy relationship with what we put in our bodies. Drawing from the basic principles of Ayurveda and Yoga, Freedom in Your Relationship to Food is a simple and effective guide to enhancing your relationship with food and the process of eating. Including lists of foods to seek out or avoid, simple breathing and meditation exercises, and practical recipes, this book will help you overcome mental and physical obstacles to attain excellent health.

Eat your way to increased energy, balanced emotions, and an overall state of calm and relaxation. In Ayurvedic medicine there are said to be three main energies that affect our mind: • sattva, the state of contentment and calm; • rajas, the state of reactivity and excitability; and • tamas, the dull, slow, and stagnant state of mind. The good news is that there are direct ways of bringing these states into balance through what we eat. The recipes in this book are simple, seasonal, and delicious, while bringing the traditional foods of Ayurveda into the modern kitchen.Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind uncovers the true potential of food to heal not only our bodies, but our minds too.

Eat better and live healthier with this easy-to-follow Ayurvedic cookbook. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of health and healing based on the principle that each human being is unique and has a distinct individual constitution, genetic inheritance and predisposition to certain ailments. Practitioners can stay healthy and happy by following rules such as: Warm, comfort foods like Shepherd's pie or butternut soup can help alleviate joint pain and poor circulation brought on by chilly, windy weather. In summer, pasta primavera, shimp salad, sauteed tofu, and other sweet and light foods cool off irritable moods and help digestive problems. Pungent, astringent foods—savory lentils, turkey loaf, kasha and the like —can help ease the distress of a winter cold. The Quick & Easy Ayurvedic Cookbook allows you to easily implement Ayurvedic principles in your cooking and improve your health without devoting long hours of study to the subject or breaking your budget. Learn how to cure insomnia and indigestion, and even mood swings, just by making food choices based on your Ayurvedic constitution. The recipes include familiar favorites making this cookbook a practical addition to your kitchen and home.

Nurture yourself with freshly prepared meals. Nourishing yourself is an essential step on the path of long-term radiant health. Eating is the one activity that can bring you in touch with your inner-self and nature each day. Simple Ayurvedic Recipes leads the way to a balanced mind, body, and spirit. Myra Lewin combines the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with simple, practical instructions for the modern cook. Create delicious food and spice combinations that are fully satisfying for all constituents. Inside you'll find: Simple suggestions that take the guesswork out of Ayurvedic cooking. Savory bean, grain, and vegetable recipes. Ayurvedic sides, snacks and drinks. Recipes for illness prevention and recovery. Balanced meal ideas. Simple Ayurvedic Recipes adds to the tools for vibrant living already provided in Lewin's first book, Freedom in Your Relationship with Food.

Keeping digestion on track is the key to health in Ayurveda, and eating natural, homemade foods in accordance with personal constitution and changes in environment is often all that we need to find balance. In The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Kate O’Donnell inspires you to get into the kitchen and explore this time-honored system of seasonal eating for health and vibrancy.Season by season, learn how the changing weather and environment both mirror and influence your body and appetite.Foundational "everyday" recipes can be adapted to any season and any dosha for nourishing, flavorful meals.Includes lifestyle advice on meal planning, self-care regimens, and how to ensure health during the change of seasons.

Winner of the 2018 Hearst Big Books Award (Women's Health and Wellbeing) East by West is the first solo cookbook from bestselling author, cook and TV presenter Jasmine Hemsley, co-founder of Hemsley + Hemsley. Featuring 140 delicious recipes from around the world, East by West champions the ancient Ayurvedic philosophy of eating to nourish, sustain and repair for ultimate mind-body balance. Jasmine continues her passion for balancing body, mind and spirit amidst the challenges of our fast-paced day-to-day lives, through real food and tasty home cooking. With a focus on listening to your body, eating when you’re hungry, being conscious of what you’re eating when you’re eating it and choosing foods that are right for your mood from day to day, East by West is a modern take on the Ayurvedic principles. With classic Ayurvedic comfort dishes from Golden Milk to Kitchari and great family sharing dishes Sesame Roast Chicken to Saffron Millionaire Cheesecake, the book has something for every taste (bringing to life store cupboard basics to create dishes) from super simple to simply special. A global range of recipes, together with simple mindful rituals and a classic cleanse to revisit when your energy levels need a boost help the book bring Ayurveda to life in a fresh and friendly way. Packed with beautiful colour photography and inspired by Jasmine’s personal journey with food and healthy living, East by West represents a delicious evolution of the ideas explored in Hemsley + Hemsley bestsellers Good + Simple and The Art of Eating Well.