Simple Ayurvedic Recipes for Healing Your Body and Mind

Ayurveda uses food as medicine for both the body and the mind in these recipes for healing.

Simple Ayurvedic recipes for healing made from fresh, non-processed foods are the key to healing on all levels.

Rather than deconstructing food into calories, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, Ayurveda uses the six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.

These six tastes are required in every meal to find balanced nutrition.

Every individual will require a different proportion of the six tastes of Ayurveda depending on their constitution and current state of balance, the time of life, the time of year, and the time of day.

Below is a collection of traditional recipes for healing and some of my personal, simple Ayurvedic recipes.

I hope you enjoy these simple Ayurvedic recipes for healing as much as I do.

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Ayurvedic electrolyte balance with lime, sugar, and salt for replacing needed hydration.

Ayurvedic Electrolyte Beverage

Ayurvedic Trikatu made from dry ginger, black pepper, and pippali to clear toxins and improve sluggish digestion.

Trikatu Digestive Powder: High-Potency Spice for Slow Agni

A delightful spring Ayurvedic side dish of sautéed Swiss chard for soothing Kapha and Pitta dosha.

Sautéed Swiss Chard

Cooling nighttime milk with rose, cardamom, and natural sweeteners to promote good sleep and ease excess heat in the summer.

Cooling Summer Nighttime Milk for Sleep

Lavender in a field used in this cooling Lavender Rose Tea for cooling pitta dosha, soothing the nervous system, and promoting good sleep.

Lavender Rose Tea: Cooling Support for Acidity and Pitta

Dry rice ready to be made into this Ayurvedic sweet spiced rice porridge with cardamom and ghee for calming Vata dosha

Sweet Spiced Rice Porridge

Golden turmeric milk Ayurvedic sleep tonic with nutmeg for women over 40

Turmeric Milk

Ayurveda-inspired Carrot Ginger Soup for warming your from the inside out while balancing Vata and Kapha dosha.

Carrot Ginger Soup

Warm roasted vegetables inspired by Ayurveda with warming spices to pacify Vata and Kapha dosha.

Roasted Vegetables

Quinoa with Sweet Potato, Beets, and Beet Greens for balancing all three doshas.

Quinoa with Sweet Potato, Beets, and Beet Greens

Ayurvedic stewed apples, a staple to clearing Pitta dosha and supporting Vata and Kapha dosha.

Stewed Apples

Red Lentil and Quinoa Kitchari with Greens, a twist on traditional Kitchari for drying Kapha dosha while supporting Vata and Pitta dosha.