How to Make it:
1. Your first step is to steam cook the root vegetables separately. This is so they can better incorporate themselves into the soup.
2. Take a big pot, set it on low heat, add the Ayurvedic mix of spices and just fry roast this mixture until a pleasant aroma wafts up to your nose
3. Next, you add the assorted vegetables (chopped) to the mixture, and then you sauté for a few minutes
4. Afterward, add one cup of vegetable stock and allow it to simmer, covering it with a lid. Wait about 15 to 20 minutes. Once the vegetables have acquired a mushy and translucent form, you add the extra vegetable stock as well as the chopped vegetables. Now let it simmer once more for about 10 minutes.
5. Your next move is to add the previously cooked root vegetables and some extra water to the soup. In order to achieve a better water consistency, you can add even more water to the soup. In the end, let it simmer for 5 minutes more. That’s it! Not too hard, is it?
After celebration days, your body begs for a soup like this, so enjoy the great taste and health benefits. It’s best to eat it before it cools, of course.
The Struggles Our Bodies Go Through During Holidays
While everyone enjoys a good holiday, the fact that these times can be the most stressful is a real irony. After all, isn’t the point of taking a holiday off from school or work to just sit back and relax?
But there’s planning and organizing, and before you know it, you’re more stressed than you’d usually be at your workplace. So it’s no wonder that during these joyous, celebratory times, it seems rather hard to maintain a healthy mind, spirit, and body.
Let’s say that up until the arrival of the holiday (it can be any holiday of the year) you have made sure to eat healthily and maintain a fit physique and psyche. Then, all of a sudden, they bombard you with all the unhealthy food and drink you can imagine.
Maybe you’re the kind of family or individual who likes eating in restaurants during special occasions, and we’re not saying you shouldn’t.
But you need to understand that all of this takes a toll on your body, which had gotten used to getting food far more nutritious than what you’ve been giving it the last couple of days. For some people, into goes into ‘rebellion mode’.
You get symptoms like coughing and a sore throat, and this is usually due to the high kapha imbalance.
Get Back on Track
But it’s not like you can’t reverse this process. All you need to do is return to your healthy lifestyle as soon as the holiday is over.
Ayurveda teaches us that the kappa dosha is balanced when you eat fresh, warm and well-spiced foods, which heat the body from the inside. But we are not talking about an unpleasant heat like you’d feel in the middle of a hot and sweaty summer day.
This is the kind of warmth which everybody finds pleasant and almost healing. After all, the healthy spices we all should consume on a regular basis are great for thinning out any formation of mucous because they regulate the levels of moisture in our bodies.
And now that this splendid holiday is behind us, leaving us with great memories, it’s time we got back to our own inner stillness and the path to self-discovery.
Source: Curejoy | Jeeva Lifestyle
