Recipes for Healing with Onions, Garlic, and Ginger Root Turmeric – specific for aiding protein digestion Ghee (clarified butter) – for lubrication and assimilation Optional: Add veggies to your taste, allowing sufficient cooking time.Ĭardamom – calms and stimulates digestionĬinnamon – warms and sweetens, a digestive Then add the cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom, cumin, and black pepper and fry for 1 minute.Īdd this mixture to the cooked rice and beans, stir, and cook for 2-3 minutes on a low heat. While the beans and rice are cooking, heat the ghee or oil in a thick-bottom frying pan and fry the onion, garlic and ginger until golden brown. Cook until the beans are soft and split open and the whole thing has the consistency of a thick soup. After the mung beans have started to open, add the rice. Add them and the salt to the boiling water in a large thick-bottomed pot. ½ teaspoon ground black pepper, or to tasteĬarefully pick over the beans and wash them. KichareeĤ-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped fine Saute raw rice in olive oil or ghee (clarified butter) until “toasty” and then add water and other ingredients.

Soak the saffron and raisins overnight in water. This is a recipe which can be used to make this dish: Saffron RiceĢ cups white Basmati rice (preferably organic)ġ 1/2 cups almonds (soaked overnight and skinned) They say within that period the entire body goes through renewing itself. And especially, very specially from the 15th of March to the 15th of April, pre-spring. We’d go for 7 days on this diet, and then for 7 days on kicheree with yogurt, and then 7 days on this rice, and again on kicheree, and on and on. And you cannot have this fast or feast, whatever we are calling it, for more than 7 days.Īnd as we were taught to do, when we were in a dire fatigue and difficulty, and when I used to prepare for the Olympics and our annual athletic meets and all that, we would go on this. You can only drink lemon and water, not straight water. If you go for seven days on a mono-diet of this dish, you can totally revive your entire system. Take these five things: Almonds (without the skins), raisins, saffron, rice and yogurt (plain, unsweetened). “The diet for achieving this engagement which we are doing is rice and yogurt, where the rice is made with saffron. It is one which he used to do to prepare for various athletic events they used to participate in. He mentioned it is a diet which is also helpful for increasing the effects of Kundalini Yoga.

On MaYogi Bhajan gave out a diet which can be done in the early Spring for cleansing and strengthening the body.

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