Recipe: Bowl of fruit, spices and fresh herbs

Recipe by Garlone Bardel author of the Yoga CookBook

Whether for your breakfast or for your snack, this recipe is ideal for regenerating your cells, but also for filling up on energy. Indeed, fruits can both delight our taste buds and satiate us even if we don't always think so. Fruits are foods that correspond to udana energy, which will control our energy of everything above the larynx which includes: the neck, the head and therefore the thought, but also the arms and legs and all the sensory receptors that put us in contact with the outside world. They grow high, contain more ether element thus nourishing the mind and the subtle dimensions of the being. Very complete, udana-type foods are light and balancing. This breakfast offers natural vitamins and antioxidants in quantity, vitamin C with lemon and good fats to nourish the cell membranes thanks to oil, chia seeds and oilseeds. Ideal for transit, it will be all the more digestible with spices and herbs… which should not be forgotten during the cold and humid season because the mixture can be cooling for certain temperaments. Spices and herbs help maintain balance. This breakfast can accompany you throughout the year without getting tired, by changing the recipe according to the seasonal fruits.

For 1 bowl

In the kitchen: 5 min

• 4 to 5 seasonal fruits of your choice
• 1 banana
• 1 tsp maple syrup (optional)
• the juice of ½ lemon
• ½ tsp vanilla powder or seeds from ½ pod
• crushed grains of 2 cardamom pods
• 2 tbsp oil (mixture of 5 oils: olive, flax, hemp, evening primrose, sesame)
• the leaves of 2 or 3 sprigs of fresh herbs (your choice or together: mint, basil, thyme, verbena).
• 1 tbsp of a mixture of oilseeds (almonds, hazelnuts, cashew nuts, Brazil nuts) previously rehydrated in water (around 15 min).
• 1 tsp chia seeds

The preparation

Peel and cut the banana and place it in a bowl. Pour in the oil, add the cardamom and vanilla, mash everything with a fork. Then emulsify the resulting paste with a small whisk or simply with a fork. The oil should be completely mixed with the flesh of the banana. Add the washed and chopped fruit, the coarsely crushed dried fruit, the lemon juice mixed with the maple syrup, and sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs and chia seeds.

You will find all of these wonderful recipes in the book Yoga CookBook by Garlone Gardel, Editions Ulmer.

Credit @Thomas Dhellemmes