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Pumpkin Hot Salad

10/19/2013

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With Halloween round the corner, here is a great way to get your share/serving of Orange-Color Food Group- Pumpkin Squash Hot Salad. I love these hot salads since they allow me to use healing spices which otherwise don't make way to my diet with simple leafy recipes. In addition, warm salads are healthier from Ayurvedic standpoint, particularly as it is getting colder here in the northern hemisphere. Cold weather is very Vata prone and warm foods act very calming.

Heat some olive oil in the pan and add some cumin seeds. Once they start to release their awesome fragrance, add chunk cut pumpkin squash. Cover and cook for a few minutes where the squash gets soft to touch but is not too soft or pasty! Sprinkle some salt, freshly ground black pepper and dried parsley flakes. Garnish with green spring onions and serve warm.

You can always substitute parsley with cilantro for that wonderful eastern exotic taste. Mint may be a bit too strong a taste with Pumpkin, but if you love it- go ahead and try it! :-) and yes, if you have asafoetida handy, definitely add it to help with this salad's Vata-calming action.
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    Maitreyi Gautam (my mystic name) comes from the original Vedic Tradition, one of world’s oldest living cultures. 

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