A Delicious Ayurveda Pasta Recipe - Quick To Make - for a New Healthy Twist on Pasta

Here’s a fun twist on a familiar food through Ayurveda cooking. This pasta recipes is meatless, easy and quick, and it tastes deliciously fresh and flavorful. Something about ghee mixed with tomatoes and Ayurvedic spices is magical. It tastes so much fresher and is much more sattvic (stress-relieving and enhancing peace of mind) than store-bought pasta sauce.

Cooking the pasta and sauce ingredients with ghee — as opposed to olive oil, which is more drying and can lead to constipation in those who are prone to it — helps with digestion. To make the roasted cumin powder, blend roasted cumin seeds in a spice blender or grind with a mortar and pestle.

Serves 2-3.

Ingredients:

• 9 ounces organic whole wheat pasta noodles

• 2 tablespoons ghee

• 1⁄2  teaspoon roasted cumin powder

• 1⁄2  teaspoon ajwain seeds

• 1⁄2  teaspoon fennel seeds

• 1⁄2  teaspoon turmeric powder

• 1⁄2  teaspoon mango powder

• 1⁄2  teaspoon pomegranate powder

• 10–12 curry leaves

• 1⁄4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (optional)

• 1 1⁄2-inch piece ginger, peeled and grated (optional)

• 10 asparagus stalks, roughly chopped

• 1–2 yellow squash, roughly chopped (optional)

• 2 carrots, roughly chopped (optional)

• 1–2 zucchini, roughly chopped (optional)

• 2–3 tomatoes, chopped

• Fresh cilantro, chopped, for garnish (optional)

Directions:

1. Bring a large pot of water to boil and cook pasta according to package instructions.

2. Heat the ghee in large skillet. Add the cumin powder, ajwain seeds, fennel seeds, turmeric powder, mango powder, pomegranate powder, curry leaves, and black pepper, and ginger, if using. Cook until fragrant, 10 to 15 seconds.

3. Add the asparagus and the yellow squash, carrots, and zucchini, if using. Cook until you can easily cut into the vegetables with a spoon, 10 to 15 minutes.

4. Add the tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes.

5. Add the cooked noodles to the skillet and mix with the veggies and spices. Garnish with cilantro, if using.

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Recipe excerpted from The Ayurveda Way: 108 Practices from the World’s Oldest Healing System for Better Sleep, Less Stress, Optimal Digestion, and More by Ananta Ripa Ajmera, published by Storey Publishing. Photos by Liz Daly.