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Ayurvedic Breakfast Recipes for Kapha Types

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August 23, 2019 by Joseph Oliveto

In Ayurveda, a healthy breakfast provides your body with nutrition and keeps your energies in balance. That means making sure you eat the right foods for your constitution and current state of health.

Are you a Kapha type? If so, this guide will help you better understand what to include in Ayurvedic breakfast recipes for Kapha energies. Use it to make your meal planning easier (and more beneficial).

Components of an Ayurvedic Breakfast for Kapha Dosha Types

Excess Kapha can lead to a general “slowness” in your mind, body, and spirit. This can manifest in several ways. Some people with excess Kapha become obese. Others struggle with sluggish thinking.

Eating a Kapha-friendly breakfast every morning can help you keep the Kapha dosha in check.

To plan a balancing breakfast that’s right for Kapha, you’ll need to bring balance to your cold, dense, and liquid attributes. This means that you’ll want to eat foods that are:

Warming

Kaphas should opt for warm foods and beverages to offset their cold qualities. Oatmeal or cream of rice with herbal tea makes a very warming breakfast.

Light

Since Kapha energy is heavy and dense, Kapha types should choose lighter breakfasts. In fact, Kapha dosha types are unique in that it can be okay or even beneficial to skip breakfast.

Knowing when those instances are is fairly easy as well. All you have to do is pay attention to your own body. If you have an appetite in the morning, have breakfast. If you genuinely do not, it’s absolutely okay to skip this meal. Just make sure you get proper nutrition when you do break your fast.

Dry

Kapha types are encouraged to choose drier foods over moist or oily foods. Toast, lentils and most vegetables are excellent choices for drier foods as long as they aren’t cooked with lots of oil. When you do use oil, be sure to select a high quality, tridoshic fat, like Ghruta.

Bitter, astringent & pungent

Since Kapha’s tastes are sweet, salty, and sour, the tastes that help to pacify Kapha are bitter, astringent, and pungent.

Ayurvedic Breakfast Ideas for Kapha

Now that you know the components of a Ayurvedic Kapha breakfast, consider these recipe ideas:

  • Warm cereals like quinoa, basmati rice, buckwheat, and millet, topped with a drizzle of honey
  • Baked or stewed apples or pears in Ghruta
  • Lightly sautéed bitter greens in Ghruta
  • Steamed or lightly cooked vegetable stirfry
  • Berry fruit salad

Kaphas also benefit greatly from spices and should try to incorporate spices in every meal (e.g. black pepper, cardamom, cayenne, chili peppers, cinnamon, cloves, mustard seed, and turmeric).

It’s important to note that although Kaphas tolerate caffeine and coffee the best out of the three dosha types, Kaphas should still only opt for small to moderate amounts. Kapha types are encouraged to drink warm, spiced teas instead. For example, Chyawanprash is a tridoshic rasayana that can be mixed into hot water to make a spicy, balancing tea.

Consider this list of Ayurvedic breakfast recipes for Kapha dosha types as a starting point. Now that you know what you should (and shouldn’t) eat in the morning, you can experiment with Kapha pacifying foods to find what works best for you and your energies. Keep in mind that diet is only one way to pacify the Kapha dosha and that there are many lifestyle practices that balance Kapha.

 

Reviewed by Dr. Jayant Lokhande, MD (Botanical Drugs), MBA (Biotechnology)

Category iconAyurvedic Diet & Recipes,  Kapha Tag icondosha,  doshas,  kapha,  kapha dosha

Disclaimer: The information provided here is for education and reference purposes only. It is not meant as actual medical information. For advice about illnesses or healthcare, please visit a qualified physician.

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