Chickpea & borlotti
bean salad
GF SF DF EF VServes 4 | Prep 15 mins |
Cook 20-25 mins | Calories 547 (per serving)
90g (3oz) brown rice
65g (2¼oz) broccoli,
chopped
2 carrots, peeled
1 red pepper
1 orange pepper
50g (1¾oz) spinach
400g (14oz) tinned
chickpeas, rinsed, drained
160g (5½oz) tinned
borlotti beans, rinsed,
drained
3 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp water
2 tbsp sesame seeds
2 tbsp tamari soy sauce
1 tbsp medium
curry powder
2 tsp rice vinegar
1½ tsp chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric
½ tsp gluten-free
vegetable stock powder
½ tsp freshly ground black
black pepper1 Turn on your mantra and start chanting, then fill a medium
pan with water, place it over a medium heat and bring it
to a boil. Add the brown rice and cook for 20-25 minutes
until ready. When there are about 2-3 minutes left for the
rice to cook, add in the broccoli.
2 Meanwhile, prepare the salad. Finely cube the carrots,
red pepper and orange pepper. As you chop, chant each
part of the mantra as you slice. Make this a conscious
act; Ra (chop) Ma (chop) Da (chop) Sa (chop), etc. Then,
add them to a large salad bowl, followed by the spinach,
chickpeas and borlotti beans. Set the bowl aside until the
rice and broccoli have cooked.
3 When the rice and broccoli have cooked, remove from
the heat, drain and add to the salad bowl.
4 Add the olive oil, water, tamari, sesame seeds, curry
powder, rice vinegar, chilli powder, turmeric, vegetable
stock powder and black pepper into the salad bowl.
Using a spoon or spatula, gently mix all the ingredients
together until everything is well combined. Again, focus
on the healing energy of this mantra as you stir and chant.
Visualise a pure healing energy pouring into your bowl.
When you’re ready, finish stirring. Place your hands around
your mixing bowl, contain the energy and chant a long Sat
Nam before serving.
Total fat Saturates Salt Sugar Protein- 5g 2.4g 0.6g 9.9g 22.4g
HEALING WITH WATER
Now you’ve had your breakfast, It’s time to organise your liquids for the
day. I want you to prepare all of the water that you would usually drink in a
day (this should be around 2-3 litres), and pour it into either a large bottle,
or two that you will use throughout the day.
As you begin this process, I want you to play a track of the Ra Ma Da Sa
Mantra and, when you feel comfortable, begin to chant. Once the water is
safely in your container, I want you to sit with it. Place your hands over the
water, or in gyan mudra (index fi ngers touching the thumbs), and chant
along to the mantra for the next 3-11 minutes. As you chant, visualise a
pure white light of healing energy fl owing into, and being absorbed by,
this water. Really take this time to infuse your water with as much love,
devotion and energy as you can.
Our bodies are made up of 60% water. If we can take the time to do this
and infuse the water we’re drinking with such beautiful energy, we will be
adding 60% more healing magic into our lives in just a few minutes of our
day. From my personal experience, it’s defi nitely something worth making
the time for.
Once you’ve done this, seal your bottle, drink some, or store it away for
later. You can also create a label for your water with the ‘Ra Ma Da Sa Sa
Say So Hung’ mantra written on it. This serves as a nice reminder of all of
the beautiful energy you’ve created, and can be used as tool to get familiar
with the mantra. You may want to chant it to yourself each time you go to
take a drink, and really immerse yourself in this healing process.“The process of self-healing is the privilege
of every being. Self-healing is not a miracle,
nor is self-healing a dramatisation of the
personality as though you could do something
superior. Self-healing is a genuine process
of the relationship between the physical and
the infi nite power of the soul.”
Yogi BhajanFOOD ALCHEMY
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