Recipes from Deva's Kitchen

Chocolate Milk Recipes

Simple Chocolate Milk by Deva

1 cup cashews or almonds (soaked 2 hours or more)
¼ cup cacao nibs
3-4 cups water depending on how thick you want the milk
3-4 dates depending on how sweet you want it

Blend well and drink. If you do not have a great blender then grind the cacao nibs in a coffee grinder before blending or use raw chocolate powder.

Cosmic Chocolate Milk by David Wolfe

2 cups pure water
3 tbsp cacao nibs
2-½ tbsp agave nectar
¼ tsp Himalayan sea salt
2 tbsp hempseeds

Blend until creamy and dreamy. You could substitute 1 tbsp of almond butter for the hemp seeds, if you would like.

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Chocolate is one of America's most well-loved foods. Yet, uniquely, out of millions of Americans very, very few have ever had the raw food that all chocolate comes from - cacao beans! Well, you have if you have tried our macaroons.

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Green Sunflower Crackers

These 100% raw living food dehydrated crackers provided a large serving of alkalizing green veggies, can be eaten anywhere, and are, of course, delicious.

Green Goddess Dressing

Juices & Beverages

Fresh fruit & vegetable juices are an excellent way to get concentrated vitamins and minerals. Drink 12-16 oz daily to start your day or perhaps consider a juice fast.

Some recommended juices and combinations are:

• cucumber, celery, carrot, parsley
• beet, carrot, celery
• watermelon, lemon, ginger
• pineapple, cucumber
• pineapple, beet, apple
• cucumber, apple, daikon
• cucumber, lime, cilantro, ginger
• celery, cucumber, green apple, parsley, kale, ginger
• wheatgrass juice and fresh young coconut milk

Wheatgrass on it’s own or mixed with fresh lemon juice, apple juice or fresh coconut juice. Wheatgrass detoxifies the liver. Celery juice is an excellent internal cleanser. The absorbability of celery juice is high and the sugar is low due to high sodium. Celery is good for strengthening the nervous system and calming nerves. Celery decreases kapha and pitta and increases vatta. Beets cleanse the liver and intestines as well as regulate the body’s sugar balance. Parsley is a blood builder, a kidney cleanser and its juice eliminates poisons from the body. Spinach has more protein ounce for ounce than meat. Celery detoxes heavy metals. Watermelon detoxifies the kidneys. Apples have a soothing effect on the gastrointestinal system Daikon radish cleanses the liver. Kale is filled with Vitamins A and C, Calcium, Iron and Chlorophyll. It helps the body build strong teeth and is beneficial to the digestive and nervous systems. Cucumbers are calming, cooling and hydrating, good for the skin. They decrease pitta and vatta and increase Kapha.Cabbage, parsley, watercress decrease kapha and pitta and increase vatta.

Carrot juice is full of B vitamins and beta-carotene. The body converts beta-carotene to vitamin A which helps the mucous membranes of your respiratory tract defend your lungs against bacterial and viral invasion. It also maintains an optimal detoxifying potential throughout the body. Carrots contain a broad mix of carotenoids, which help prevent cataracts, macular degeneration and night blindness. Orange vegetables all contain vitamin A, and the more vitamin A you have in your body, the more rhodopsin you produce. Rhodopsin is a purple pigment that the eye needs in order to see in the dim light. Carrots contain additional antioxidants, including alpha-carotene, which fights cancer and heart disease. If your new devotion to carrots turns your skin a faint shade or orange, don’t worry-it’s a harmless and transient condition. Simply stop eating carrots for a few days and then begin enjoying them again in moderation. 1 Carrots increase pitta, decreases vatta and kapha.

Yogi Bhajan’s Golden Milk

‘Turmeric is a root that is ground into a bright yellow powder and is one of the main ingredients in curry. It is know as an anti-inflammatory and a lubricant for the joints. It is also excellent for the skin and mucous membranes, especially the female reproductive organs.’ 2

Mix 1 Tbsp of turmeric powder in 1 cup of pure water and boil in a saucepan until a thick paste is formed about 5 minutes, add more water as needed. You may store this paste for up to 30 days. Store in an airtight container and refrigerate.

After the paste is made, mix together in a saucepan 1 cup of Soy or Dairy Milk, 1 tsp of edible almond oil, 1⁄4 tsp of turmeric paste and honey to taste. While stirring on low heat, bring the milk just to the boiling point. The mixture may be then blended in an electric blender to make a beautiful foamy drink or just drink as is. This drink is especially beneficial for stiff joints ‘breaking up calcium deposits that cause stiffness’ 3, and is a source of lubrication for the system.

Golden Milk can be made raw and uncooked also by adding turmeric to your smoothie or nut milk and blending and not cooking it or add the cooked paste to the nut milk and blending.

Nut Milk

• 1/2 cup almonds, walnuts, or cashews
• 1 quart of filtered water
• Dash of kelp or Celtic sea salt
• 1/8 cup raisins, 2 dates or 1 Tbsp raw unpasteurized honey

Soak nuts and dried fruit overnight. Drain and throw away soak water. Blend with water and kelp or salt. Use as is or strain. Optional: remove almond skins after soaking, especially for sensitive digestive systems. Then drink as is, use in smoothies, or add to cold yogi tea or a cold version of golden milk. Fresh nut milks tend to separate when heated.

Liver Flush

To cleanse and support the liver and gall bladder

• 1⁄4 cup purified or spring water to facilitate the blending process
• 1⁄4 tsp whole cloves
• 1 pinch of cayenne pepper or a small piece of a fresh jalapeno
• 3 sprigs of parsley
• 1 clove of garlic
• 2 oranges or tangerines, peeled, (cut off the peel and leave the white stuff on and chop into pieces)
• 1⁄2 grapefruit, peeled (cut off the peel and leave the white stuff on and chop into pieces)
• 1⁄2 lemon, peeled (remove the peel and leave the white stuff on and chop into pieces)
• 1–2 inches of fresh ginger, peeled
• 2 Tbsp cold pressed extra virgin olive, flax or hemp oil

Drink first thing in the morning. Start adding the ingredients listed above one at a time while blending. Add olive oil last. Blend, approximately 1–2 minutes, until smooth. More water may be added if it is too thick. If you have a known sensitivity to oranges use 2 grapefruits instead. Personally I prefer it unstrained and then it is like a smoothie.

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Liver flush is a love-hate relationship, some love it and some hate it. Check it out and see how you feel. Perhaps don’t try it as you are running out to work just in case you get nauseous which can be a symptom from liver detox. Drink daily over an extended time period to experience its effects. ‘Garlic is an antibacterial, Parsley detoxes the kidneys, Oranges have a high content of beta-carotene.’ 5

1,2,3,5 Khalsa, Dharma Singh, MD. Food As Medicine. Atria Books. NY, NY. 2003.

4 Burroughs Stanley, The Master Cleanser with special needs and problems. Burroughs Books. Reno, NV.1976.

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Sattvic Food for Meditation and Cleansing

Ayurveda is the science of life which relates to life as a state of balance between the body, mind and consciousness. It recognizes that food is medicine therefore can be used to purify and heal. Cleansing has become very popular in our society in these times. For cleansing, Ayurveda recommends a sattvic diet with some rajasic foods. Sattva, or purity represents calmness, alertness, kindness and compassion and examples of these foods are fruit and vegetables, nuts, avocados, dates and coconuts (sun foods). Rajasic foods are stimulating herbs and spices (earth foods) and are to create, complete and accomplish but in excess may cause indecisiveness, hyperactivity and anxiety. Sattvic foods and small amounts of rajasic foods are effective together with raw foods for cleansing and renewal.

Often dis-ease in the body is due to sluggish digestion (Agni) and elimination (Apana). A protein dish that is very easy to digest is Kitcheree (Mung Beans and Rice). Kitcheree accompanied by a green salad with Green Goddess Dressing, Flax Crackers and Key Lime tarts makes for a healthy and lively sattvic meal.

Ayurvedic Kitcheree aka Mung Beans and Rice

• 1/2 cup basmati rice
• 1/2 cup mung beans
• 6 cups filtered water or more if want it soupy
• 2 stalks celery
• 1 carrot
• 1/2 bunch kale, broccoli, chard or other greens
• Spices 1 tsp of each; cumin powder, coriander, turmeric, curry powder, black pepper or chili pepper or flakes
• 2 onions
• 1 inch ginger grated
• 2 cloves garlic chopped finely
• 2 tablespoons Braggs or Tamari
• 1 stick of Kombu or other sea vegetable
• 1 pinch of hing (Asofoetida) to prevent gas
• Garnishes: 1 Tbsp Olive oil or ghee*, ¼ cup cilantro, ¼ cup onions

Rinse mung beans and rice. Add mung beans to water and cook for ½ hour. Then add the rest of the ingredients and continue to simmer for one hour stirring often. Cook until the mung beans have opened up. You can soak the mung beans overnight to make them even easier to digest. Garnish and serve warm. Yields 2-3 servings.

Kitcheree is a complete protein; all essential amino acids are contained.

The oil or ghee is added after cooking because cooked oils cause free radical damage, which can lead to premature aging. Buy unrefined oils as most commercially refined oils are rancid and a source of immune-inhibiting free radicals.

One of Yogi Bhajan’s recipes for mung beans and rice is to boil 2 tablespoons cumin seeds and oregano seeds in 6 cups of water for one hour. Then use this tea to make the kitcheree. Trinity roots in Ayurveda are garlic, ginger and onions. Garlic is antiviral. Ginger aids digestion and nourishes the nerves. Onions purifies the blood, attacks bacteria and balances blood sugar.

Since 1992, Deva has studied vegetarian cooking and practiced a lifestyle based on the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Deva and her husband, Dr. Kartar have a cleansing and detox program called The Cleanse. Deva’s provides a vegetarian lunch program to the community they live in near Santa Fe, NM and a mail order program of healthy snacks and cleanses. 1-800-563-3327 info@thecleanse.com

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