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This is a recipe for a winter afternoon when you have time at home to watch over the dhal. It's not a complicated recipe and doesn't call for too many ingredients.   It's based on a recipe from Dishoom: "From Bombay with Love".     If you have tasted...

Simple kitchen ingredients to alleviate cold and flu symptoms Ingredients: 6 limes 150g ginger 150g jaggery or unrefined brown sugar Honey Thalisadee (optional)       The how to: Juice the limes. Scrape and chop the ginger. Add all the ingredients...

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Food doesn't need to be complicated to be nourishing and delicious. Here's the formula: Spices Vegetables Carbohydrate Protein Fat Vegetarian, Vegan, Pescatarian or meat eater? Vata, Pitta or Kapha? The method is the same. We just add whatever suits us. Spices: Here...

As we move from Summer to Autumn, I tend not to recommend raw fruit smoothies and veggie juices for breakfast. Raw and cold drinks will dampen the digestive fire, especially for Vata types. Autumn is predominantly Vata season, so foods and drinks should warming,...

What does this mean for Lotus now we’re Tier 2? We are pleased to say that the current guidelines do not impact us directly. We continue to operate in a Covid Secure Environment: classes sizes have been reduced but our doors are still open. Here’s a reminder of what...

When choosing foods to balance the doshas we consider the Gunas (or qualities) of the dosha and the food. You can find out more about he doshas here.  Vata dosha is light, mobile, sometimes erratic, creative, dry and rough. Autumn is Vata season. There is lots of...

To balance the heat of Pitta we’ve incorporated the cooling tastes of sweet, bitter (purifying and anti inflammatory) and astringent throughout these recipes: Green vegetables, chard, radicchio, chicory, green tea, rice, barley water, pulses and coconut are all pitta...