Red lentils are often a go-to for lunch at my house because they cook up quickly and they do not need any time for pre-soaking. This red lentil dal combines kapha pacifying spices for a quick and satisfying meal.
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Tri-doṣic Rasāyya (tasty) Bowls
Simple, one-bowl meals, often called Buddha Bowls, have been all the craze for the last few years. You can pack a lot of flavor and a lot of nutrition into just one bowl. And āyurvedically speaking, you can pack all 6 tastes into just one bowl.
Kapha Pacifying Curried Red Lentil Soup
This kapha pacifying soup includes mustard seed, onions, garlic, ginger root, cayenne pepper and other spices for pungency (warming and dissolving kapha’s cold stickiness). Kale and ground coriander add the bitter taste which has a drying action on kapha’s liquid quality, and stimulates peristalsis (moving food through the digestive tract). Lentils and fresh cilantro add astringency which also helps to dry kapha’s liquid quality.