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Ayurveda distinguishes between cold food and cooling food. When the summer shows its hot side, we tend to go for cold or even ice-cold food and drink. But according to Ayurveda, this is an overreaction with an unpleasant effect, because cold food severely reduces Agni, the digestive fire. Continue reading
Mashed potatoes with vegetable milk
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Fruity Pumpkin Soup
This pumpkin soup is mild, delicious, and warming – and it just fits well with autumn. In addition, it looks great with its sophisticated topping.
Depending on how thick you make it, this soup can be served as a main dish or as a starter.
Ingredients for 2 persons:
- 300g pumpkin
- 100g carrots
- 50g parsnip
- 1,5 L water
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 1/2 tsp. fresh ginger, grated
- 2 tsp. chickpea flour
- 1 pinch asafoetida
- 2 pinch of curcuma
- 1 bouillon cube (10g)
- Juice of half a small orange
- 1 pinch of pepper
- 1 pinch of cane sugar
- 1/2 tsp. of salt (to taste)
- For the topping:
Cream, pumpkin seed oil, fresh marjoram, flower petals
Preparation:
Peel and chop the pumpkin, carrots, and the sweet potatoes. Pumpkin (Hokkaido variety) gives a very refined taste when peeled.
- Heat the Ghee in a saucepan
- Add vegetables and stir
- Add chickpea flour and stir
- Pour in the water
- Add spices (except the pepper)
- bring to a boil
- Cook over medium heat for 35 minutes
(Until the soup has the desired thickness.) - Add the freshly pressed orange juice, the cane sugar, salt and pepper
- Blend the soup
- Fill in preheated plates or bowls, garnish with cream, pumpkin seed oil, marjoram, and flower petals and serve.
If you prefer a more liquid soup, reduce the amount of pumpkin to 250g. In general, you can also regulate the thickness by adjusting the cooking time.
Recipe and photos: Hans-Jürgen Metz and Monika Schwarz
© Maharishi Ayurveda Privatklinik Bad Ems
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Lemon and Honey Drink
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Oats … an indigenous Superfood
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But do superfoods always have to come from far away? Surely not! For many generations, an extremely versatile and highly effective superfood has been growing in our own local fields: oats. Continue reading