The Book of Vata

Dear One:

On this page, you will find articles, recipes, and tips to balance your Vatta dosha.

As a first step, I suggest you eliminate any dry foods from your diet, such as crackers and dry cereals. Also eliminate any cold food, like drinks directly from the fridge. Avoid having your tummy empty and overextending yourself at work. Sleep a good 10 to 12 hours per day.

If you are already familiar with your dosha and want to make your next step in the refinement of your diet, I suggest you favour fortifying foods, like tonics and the daily supplement chyavanprash. Avoid over detoxifying yourself and favour massage therapy with warm sesame oils.

ARTICLES

• The Structure of Being
• The First Earth Body: Your Physical Body
• The Second Earth Body: Your Etheric Body
• The Third Earth Body: Your Emotional Body
• The Fourth Earth Body: Your Mental Body
• What is the Vatta Dosha?
• Shopping List for the Vatta Dosha
• The 3 Qualities of the Earth Bodies
• Self Test to Find Your Guna
• Samyoga: The Art of Food Combination
• Incompatible Food Combinations
• Tastes to Balance the Vatta Dosha
• Your Daily Yoga
• Psychological Attributes of Each Dosha
• Dietary Tips for the Vatta Dosha
• Tips for a Restful Sleep
• Exercise According to Your Dosha
• Organic Ayurvedic Toothpaste
• How to Personalize Your Ayurvedic Diet 
• Castor Oil: Between Torture and Radiant Health
• Tips to Raise Low Blood Pressure
• 4 Legumes You Want to Have in Your Ayurvedic Pantry
• Ayurvedic Tips to Cool Down in a Heatwave

RECIPES

DRINKS

• A traditional Ayurvedic digestive drink *
• Agua de panela
• Almond milk
• Constipated? Serve chamomile tea! 
• Coriander detox tea *
• Coriander: taming the tummy
• Detox teas for each dosha
• Evening tonic for Vata dosha
• Golden milk for each Ayurvedic dosha
• Honey orange kombucha cocktail
• Lime and rose summer drink *
• Mango juice
• Morning booster drink *
• Oat milk
• Orange juice
• Pumpkin chai
• Shatavari cardamon milk decoction
• Tea to restore internal fire *
• Tulsi: the holy herb 
• Turmeric purifying drink *
• Warming winter teas for each dosha  
• Wild rose and mint lassi *

BREAKFAST

• Amaranth - The food to worship your body *
• Applesauce Delight *
• Baked apples in rose water *
• Budha bowl with carrot ginger dressing *
• Cacao and blueberry salad * 
• Chia and chocolate pudding *
• Cinnamon, banana, date and almond smoothie *
• Coconut and orange oats *
• Coconut mango tapioca pudding * 
• Ilaada (rice and coconut burrito)
• Mango and blueberry stew *
• Oatmeal with walnuts and honey *
• Pumpkin chocolate butter
• Simple applesauce *
• Stuffed mung bean crepes * 
• Stewed spicy fruits *
• Sweet potatoes in cranberry sauce *
• Turmeric-blueberry oatmeal with flax

 SOUPS

• Almond cold soup *
• Avocado cold soup *
• Balancing mung dahl *
• Beet, buttermilk and scallion cold soup
• Borscht (beet soup) 
• Carrot and orange soup with red currants
• Cauliflower dhal *
• Creamy peanut and sweet potato stew *
• Kale soup for Vata *
• Living kichari, food of the gods *
• Nettle soup *
• Root stew
• Rhubarb and tomato gaspacho *
• Squash soup
• Thai carrot cream soup *
• Tomato rose and mint soup *
• Tomato soup 
• Urad dal with coconut and cilantro  

GRAINS AND PULSES 

• Amaranth - The food to worship your body *
• Coconut-cinnamon rice *
• Coconut and orange oats *
• Hearty coconut black bean stew * 
• Kidney beans in creamy cardamon yogurt sauce *
• Lemon rice *
• Lentil patties * 
• Makāi No Chevdo *
• Mung bean patties 
• Mushroom and broiled vegetable polenta * 
  
• Nut-free vegan power bars
• Roasted rice with dates, cinnamon and cardamom *
• Simple basmati rice 
• Stuffed mung bean crepes *
• Sun-dried tomatoes and feta cornbread *
• Wild rice with figs and balsamic mushrooms *

SALADS AND CHUTNEYS

• 6-taste salad
• Balsamic citrus dressing
• Beets and dates paste
• Black radish appetizer *
• Cocoa salad dressing * 
• Fresh cucumber salad from time to time *
• Ginger and lime sauce *
• Ginger chutney *
• Green dove chutney
• Green sprouts and portobello salad *
• Guava chutney delight
• Hot and sweet chilli wine
• Kerala pineapple curry *
• Lemon compote *
• Lemon cumin dressing *
• Mint and coconut chutney 
• Parsnip and avocado salad
• Peach and tomato salad *
• Pumpkin chai 
• Pumpkin chocolate Butter
• Raw beet salad * 
• Salad dressing using cocoa *
• Smoky marinated feta * 
• Solstice mango salad *
• Sweet cashew Chutney
• Tamarind chutney  
• Tomato Chutney 
• Zingy carrot salad *

ROOTS

• Beets in tangerine sauce * 
• Buddha bowl with carrot ginger dressing *
• Roasted potatoes in maple Dijon vinaigrette *
• Sweet potatoes in cranberry sauce *

SEEDS

• Aswahgandha almond butter
• Jaggery spiced walnuts *
• Sunflower seeds with spices *

VEGETABLES AND MAIN DISHES

• Bread free stuffed balls
• Broiled tomatoes with feta cheese
• Budha bowl with carrot ginger dressing *  
• Cauliflowers with coconut red peppers and peanuts *
• Dandelion flower buds in ghee and lemon *
• Fresh beans with hazelnut and orange
• Fresh okra with peanut sauce *
• Great green vegetable tart * 
• Greens with fennel and raisins *
• Hearty coconut black bean stew * 
• Herb polenta with mushrooms * 
• Kumquat in almond sauce over portobello mushrooms
• Okra bhindi *
• Red hot coconut curry *
• Roasted potatoes in maple Dijon vinaigrette * 
• Sage and rosemary spaghetti squash *
• Smoky sweetcorn and tofu fritters
• Stuffed mung bean crepes * 
• Sunflower butter in zucchini rolls *
• Sweet potatoes in cranberry sauce * 

SAUCES AND DRESSINGS

• 7 tips for a successful pesto 
• Cilantro pesto for mercury detox 
• Cocoa salad dressing *
• Cranberry spread
• Digestive green pesto 
• Fast tomato sauce
• Ginger and tamarind pickle
• Late fall Canadian Salsa
• Lemon Cumin Dressing
• Mint, parsley and scallion pesto
• Olive, caper and mint pesto
• Pine nuts, basil and parsley pesto
• Pomegranate chilli syrup
• Pomegranate chocolate chia mousse
• Pumpkin chocolate butter
• Salsa verde
• Salsa verde with green tomatoes  
• Sunflower butter
• Tomato onion masala *

DESSERTS

• Bananas in tropical sauce 
• Almond cookies *
• Applesauce Delight * 
• Apricot and fig bliss bites *
• Baked apples in rose water *
• Cacao and blueberry salad *
• Chia and chocolate pudding * 
• Coconut whipping cream
• Coconut mango tapioca pudding *
• Dates and almond butter
• Dates and cranberry chutney *
• Energy truffles with ashwagandha
• Fig and goat's cheese tart with lemon icing 
• German rhubard and meringue cake * 
• Halvah balls
• Mango and blueberry stew * 
• Mango and coconut tapioca pudding
• Moist quinoa chocolate cake *
• Raw chocolate pudding
• Raw coconut nutella
• Simple applesauce *
• Spiced dates with pomegranate and ricotta *
• Strawberries chocolate jam
• Sukhadi: energy square *
• Simple applesauce * 
• Sweet potato and applesauce brownie *
• Sweet potatoes in cranberry sauce *
• Tapioca and coconut fruit salad 
• Vegan banana bread  
• Vegan peppermint patty slide 

 HERBS, SPICES AND SPICE BLENDS

• 4 cooking churnas using cumin 
• Ashwaghanda: or the smell of a horse
• Beat fatigue with ayurvedic herbs
• Brahmi: the herb of memory 
• Garam masala *
• Healing properties of cumin 
• How to use cumin to treat common illnesses
• Shatavari: the grace and strength of the woman
• Spice blend with chillies 
• Triphala: better than mother's care
• Winter moods?