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.

You can also check out the recipe hubs:

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Ayurveda-inspired French Lentil Dal with warming spices.

French Lentil Dal

Barley and Vegetables, an Ayurveda-inspired remaking of upma, excellent for Kapha dosha.

Barley and Vegetables

Ayurveda-inspired soup of greens, excellent for easing Kapha and Pitta imbalances.

Soup of Greens

Cooling fresh cilantro sauce for adding flavor to your favorite dishes, especially in the summer.

Fresh Cilantro Sauce

Warming Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato soup to calm the nervous system and support Vata dosha.

Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

Cooling hibiscus mint tea for beating the heat of summer while drying excess liquid of Kapha dosha

Hibiscus Mint Tea: Refreshing Blend for Summer Heat and Pitta

Ayurvedic warm spiced milk with cinnamon, cardamom, and a pinch of nutmeg for soothing the nervous, calming Vata dosha, and promoting deep sleep.

Warm, Spiced Milk

Ayurvedic warm spiced oatmeal with cinnamon and nutmeg for cold mornings.

Warm, Spiced Oatmeal

Ginger slices to stimulate digestion with lime and salt to stimulate sluggish digestion.

Ginger Slices to Stimulate Digestion

Takra, an Ayurvedic drink, that soothes the gut as it promotes good digestion.

Takra

Ojas formula, an Ayurvedic drink to boost immunity and nourish the tissues of the body.

Ojas Formula

Ayurvedic lemon ginger honey elixir that helps boost sluggish digestion for Vata and Kapha dosha.