Tag: healthy
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Bowl: pearl couscous with sugarsnaps, rucola and grated mozzarella
These days I have been posting most pictures of recipes on Instagram (@JanayitriBrahmanda), but I could not deny you this one: what a lovely, delicious light dish for our book. I made this bowl purely with my intuition, the Sattvic way, and it turned out amazing. Fits the yoga diet perfectly! First you cook the…
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Vegan bowl with noodles
This super healthy and delicious bowl with noodles, fits the yoga-diet perfectly and is made in less than 10 minutes. All ingredients are organic according to the Sattvic life style. Cook the noodles in water and add the last 2 minutes frozen green peas. In the meanwhile stir-fry in a wok some fresh pepper and fresh…
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Lovely quinoa-salad with tofu and garden-veggies
During these amazing sunny days it is always nice to eat a salad for dinner. The Sattvic Lifestyle is simple and light: so this salad definitely fulfills the yoga-diet standards and it tastes delicious! First you cook the quinoa and let it cool down. Quinoa is one of the lightest forms of grain we can take…
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Kitchen garden lessons: carrots
Look how amazing this carrot came out of my kitchen garden. As you can read in this series about my brand new greening, I get really exited about growing my own food as part of the Sattvic lifestyle and yoga-diet, thought it is hard. I have to learn everything from scratch, because at some point…
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Extremely rare and healthy green from the sea: Monk’s Beard
Monk’s Beard is an incredibly rare, stem-shaped sea vegetable that grows in the salt marshes along the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic coast of Portugal. In Holland we can buy this scarce delicacy only once or twice a year in a few organic shops. In Italian it is called ‘Barba di frate’, hence the Dutch…
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Amazing health benefits of water with lime
Warm water with fresh lime or lemon is a common used medicine in Ayurveda. It has amazing health benefits. First of all, it detoxes the body from basically everything that doesn’t belong in it; like the pesticides on fruits and vegetables, chemicals in manufactured food and the pollution in the air. Second, it helps creating…
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This delicious pumpkin-purée fits the yoga lifestyle very well
The Dutch like to call it ‘hotchpot’ but I like the name ‘purée’ better. It is a perfect Sattvic alternative for mashed potatoes because you add a lot of vegetables, which makes it a lot lighter and healthier. Only potatoes are not very nutritious, but this way, you can make a delicious and healthful meal. The…
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The harsh truth about overweight
More people die of over-eating than out of hunger these days. Over 30% of the world population is suffering from obesity. There are more people overweight than underweight nowadays. Basically we are eating ourselves into death. Number one cause of death in the world is heart disease. And the cause of heart disease is mostly…
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Delicious turnip-tops salad with beetroot, apple and mandarin
An absolute winter season-veggie-fruit salade with a delicious and light Sattvic taste! Completely organic, vegan and super healthy! It was very simple to make: wash and cut the turnip-tops and put them in a bowl. On top some thinly sliced chioggia beetroot and a mix of apple and mandarin in lemon and honey dressing. This way…
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The greener the better
The Yoga Lifestyle recommends Sattvic food, in particular raw green leaves and green vegetables like broccoli. This is for a reason. Green leaves have a lot of chlorophyll and contain an amazing amount of prana; the life-giving energy which gives good health according to ancient Vedic Science. If this energy is flowing through our energetic…
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