Welcome to the new Recipes & Menus section of Satya Center. Here you will find new recipes and menu plans written by guest nutritionists, chefs and Satya Center alt.healer practitioners. Keep checking back for new additions. Feel free to contact us with specific requests or questions about diet, recipes, ingredients or menus. It is our sincere hope, that we all have affordable access to fresh, local, healthy, gmo & chemical free food and that we may eat nourishing meals with a sense of gratitude, love and communion. May your meals be flavorful, healthy, balanced and a peaceful moment in your day, bringing health and abundance to you and your family. May we all be nourished that we can create a balanced, loving and peaceful world community.



Soups & Starters

Beet Soup

This delicious healthy spring or autumn soup needs a minimum of ingredients and preparation. I recommend using heirloom beets or any fresh bright beets that have smooth unwrinkled skin. The younger and fresher the beet, the less time it takes to cook. Autumn and Winter beets take longer to cook.





Squash Soup

Make an easy nutritious Summer or Winter Squash Soup. Pictured here is Winter Squash-Butternut variety, a good storage winter squash, high in vitamins and minerals with a sweet taste and warming properties.

Yummy Quick & Easy Zucchini Soup

Summer time staple in the northeast!! Zucchini Soup, nourishing, fast, simple & one way to use up that preponderance of Zucchinis! For those of you lucky enough to have longer growing seasons, this is one fast meal you won't want to miss!






Main Courses



Fast Food Summer Meal

The trick with this vegetarian dish, is to use what's most fresh, most available & locally on hand & you can't go wrong. Fresh snipped herbs on the finished dish will bring out the flavors of the vegetables & harmonize the combination, while adding wonderful health benefits.





Grated Potato Fry, Hot Arrowhead Cabbage Salad with Corn

A quick, nutritious seasonal meal both nourishing and satisfying for a summer's day. Try this delicious, super fast & easy way to eat a satisfying summer meal after a hard day of work, with a minimum of fuss. I ate this meal from my share of Roxbury vegetables of the week with a small amount of preparation & an enormous amount of pleasure!





Saffron Brown Rice with Carrots

Serve this dish as a main course or side dish. According to Ayurveda, saffron has wonderful healing qualities for all body types especially as a “blood revitalizer”. This dish will brighten up any winter day but is good served all year round.






Slow Roast Tomatoes

There is no better way to enjoy cooked tomatoes, than by slow roasting them to bring out the full rich sweetness of this favorite fruit of the americas. Try serving them with fresh pasta or grain dishes, with a grating of cheese or sprinkle of fresh herbs. Try them on a tortilla with beans and cilantro. Try them blended into sauce, or instead of sauce, but be forwarned, they are very rich and you don't need very many to impart a deep and full tomato taste. Once you eat these, you may not want plain tomatoes ever again!





Stuffed Cabbage

Learn how to make this delicious and nourishing dish from leftovers or anytime you need extra vitamins and fiber. Easy and fun for vegans, vegetarians and fish and meat eaters alike.Cabbage has been enjoyed since ancient times, both fresh and fermented, dried and smoked all around the world from Medieval Europe to ancient Norse cultures.






Wheat Berry Veggie Burgers

Veggie Burgers are a delicious way to have your whole grains satisfy both your appetite and a desire to seek nourishing vitamin and mineral rich whole foods. You can make veggie burgers from leftover grains on hand, or start by cooking up a pot of your favorite whole grain or legumes.






Salads & Side Dishes



Roasted Beet & Pecan Salad

This roasted beet and pecan salad can be served for lunch, or as a side dish or dinner salad.Bringing nourishment that is colorful and refreshing, it is easy to prepare. Roasting concentrates flavors by concentrating the natural sugars in the food being roasted.





Cucumber Raita or What to Do With All Those Cucumbers Recipe

Too many cukes running around in your garden or neighborhood? Make this delicious fast & easy recipe for Cucumber Raita. A great side dish or salad or complement to spicy food.





Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

Dressing a salad is a highly individual art. It can be as simple as squeezing fresh lemon without oil, or simply splashing a bit of high quality olive oil and vinegar onto a salad. Or you can create alchemy at the table with a dressing that marries oil and vinegar with delicious and healthful emulsifiers, enlivening your meal with flavor and fun.





Condiments, Relishes, Chutneys & Digestifs



The Lazy Gardener's Spring Cilantro Pumpkin Seed Pesto

I am such a lazy gardener that I had the good fortune this spring to discover a veritable emerald forest of 'volunteer' young cilantro seedlings in the vegetable bed!  Upon this serendipitous discovery I created a delicious way to make use of this delicious, nutritious & fragrant herb.





Tomato Raisin Chutney

Here is one of my easy to prepare chutneys, delicious with brown rice, potato or vegetable dishes, especially beans such as garbanzo beans. You can use this as an accompaniment to fish, shellfish, chicken or pork if you eat those meats. Try it plain on a cracker for a snack! It's a favorite in our house.

Sauerkraut & Fermented Foods

Here is a recipe from Betsy Cashen for natural lacto-fermentation of vegetables including the classic cabbage sauerkraut, a recipe for fermented carrots & also beets.  Betsy Cashen studied nutrition at Cornell University and has been a practicing dietitian since 1986, working in both conventional and anthroposophical settings.





Daikon-Carrot Condiment

Have you ever wondered about the dab of juicy, grated white stuff that's served with tempura and sushi? It's grated daikon. Because this pearly white radish aids digestion it often appears with these dishes.Daikon also is a venerable weight loss remedy in Asia.







Grape Compote

This sweet yet savory compote is high in invaluable antioxidants and therefore exceptionally healthful.But first things first,it tastes delicious and is quick and easy to make.Purple or red grapeswill yield a stellar purple or red color.

Breads



Iroquois White Corn Bread

Irouois white corn is an heirloom variety grown on the reservation in upstate New York. This cornmeal tastes unlike anything you have ever eaten! It is fresh roasted and ground to order. In this article, you will learn  how to order some cornmeal, plus a tasty recipe for white cornbread that tastes even better the second day.






Beverages & Desserts

Rose Cardamom Lassi

Make this delicious easy healthful and fragrant drink for any special occasion. Ayurvedic physicians do not recommend taking yogurt or other dairy with fruit because it causes the buildup of toxins in the body. This drink is sweet, nourishing and easy to digest.

Pine Needle Tea

The foragers among you will love this delicious and healthful drink. A wonderful way to commune with Winter. Read the accompanying article Rebecca Wood has written about Attention Deficit Disorder.

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