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Ayurvedic Chai Recipe for the Autumn season.

Ayurvedic Chai

for the Autumn season.

Serves 5

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups water

  • 1 cinnamon stick

  • 7 green cardamom pods, open

  • 2 black cardamom pods, open

  • 2 tbsp. diced ginger

  • 1 tsp. fennel seeds

  • 1/2 tsp ajwain seeds

  • 5 whole cloves

  • unrefined sugar to taste

  • 2 cups unhomogenized cow milk

  • 2.5 tsp. loose leaf black tea leaves

    Method:

  1. In a small pot, heat the water.

  2. As water is heating, add the spices.

  3. Bring to a rolling boil and boil for 3 – 10 minutes.

  4. Add unrefined sugar and bring to a boil again.

  5. Add black tea leaves, then pour in the milk quickly

  6. Allow the chai to come to a boil for one last time.

  7. Serve hot.

Comments:

Ayurvedic Chai is building as well as cleansing. This ratio of herbs will be balancing for Vata dosha in the Autumn season. The spices are used to scrape toxins that cause sluggishness from the lymphatic system.
The milk and raw sugar are used for their anabolic action, helping to build good quality tissue.

When the milk is added immediately after the tea, it binds the tannins from releasing into the chai, reducing the drying and agitating impact of caffeine. The result is a balancing and energizing beverage.

Recipe adapted from

Rebecca Lily Bornstein
Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant

 

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We love this fun & tasty recipe from our favourite Dietitian & Nutritionist Holly at Paradise Pantry.

Fish & Chips!

β€œThis healthy, homemade spin on what is a meal usually loaded with saturated fats and not so good for you oils.

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The sauce?


”I love the flavour of a good tartar sauce but always struggled to recreate it because I’ve never really found a mayo that I enjoy. Full of goodness (made using extra virgin olive oil πŸ™ŒπŸ») and filled with collagen.”

Check out this recipe!

Healthy Homemade Tartar
4 tbs Gevityrx Bone Broth Sauce Great Guts
2 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp caper or pickle juice
A few parsley leaves or dill, chopped

”Add all ingredients in a small bowl. Stir well to combine and dip away.
It even exceeded my expectations on the taste and I love knowing that every mouthful is very nutrient dense, I’m just a bit obsessed πŸ˜œβ€

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