A *Winter Cleansing-Diet-Direction calls for recipes that are easy to digest and keep you warm which can help support regeneration and protect your body during cold season.

The food we eat, our environment and the seasons impact our body and mind in many ways on both the inside and out. Dry nose and throat, cracked lips and constant hang nails accompany sore throats, coughing and chills for many people during the winter. Considering how the foods we eat make us feel as well as recognizing how external elements affect us can help clarify making choices that are more beneficial or more depleting for us. Winter is generally experienced as a cold and drying time of year, except for those lucky snow birds who can escape to Palm Desert or Phoenix.

Eating foods that are seasonally grown are complementary to how our body and the climate interact. Additionally, eating locally grown and seasonal foods can help us avoid eating preserved, pre-picked and warehoused food that is chemically treated and lacks nutrient density.

There are many easy to digest, warming and nutritive foods to eat in the winter. The picture for this blog post is a recipe called kitchari. It’s delicious, comforting, easy to digest and a storehouse of nutrients. Kitchari is a superb winter cleansing recipe and perfect for people interested in giving their body and mind a break from foods that are depleting and taxing on the liver. Kitchari is a very low maintenance and highly restorative meal plan.

I found this kitchari recipe on lilablog.com, a blog that gives me inspiration and reasons to smile. Kitchari is a traditional Indian mono-diet that can be eaten for one day or for many. It is very nourishing and easy to digest. Kitchari gives your liver, an organ that manages over 300 functions in the body, one of which is the process of detoxification, a break. The recipe is loaded with vegetables, mung beans and basmati rice which are slowly cooked together allowing for easy digestion and assimilation of protein. The flavor is bold and warming with turmeric, cardamon, coriander, mustard seed and ginger (to name a few) that are full of protective antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties . Currently Lila has taken a break from blog writing, but I highly recommend checking out her kitchari recipe listed under the Cleansing category on her blog at lilablog.com. Kitchari can be prepared many different ways which allows for variations in taste and texture to keep the recipe fresh and unique.

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