A Dairy-Free, Oil-Free Pudina Chutney
This Indian green mint chutney is very easy to make- just place all ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth. You can adjust the taste from there according to your preferences. Pudina chutney, or green mint chutney, is a traditional Indian recipe that uses mint, cilantro, yoghurt, chilis, garlic, and other spices. I am keeping this green mint chutney version dairy-free and oil-free so that it stays free of troublemaker foods and overt fats.
Make this green mint chutney when you are looking for a minty, herby, side to add to your potatoes, salads, soups, or kebabs. I made a samosa potato salad that uses this recipe and they go great together! The cilantro, mint, lemon, garlic, and ginger make this green mint chutney a mineral rich sauce with anti-pathogenic qualities. This is a great dish to pair with cooked food for extra enzymes, phytochemicals, and mineral salts.
You can add a pinch of sea salt for flavor or keep it omitted, if you prefer. If you choose to keep it omitted, add extra lemon juice to taste- I recommend trying salt-free first, as it’s possible you won’t miss it! Cilantro and lemon have bioavailable mineral salts that help with this flavor profile.
Green Mint Chutney
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp mint chopped
- 4 tbsp cilantro chopped
- ½ lemon juiced
- ½ knob ginger
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ tsp garam masala
- 1 chili (optional)
Instructions
- Place all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Your chutney is ready.
- This is great used and topped on potatoes, salads, soups and more!
Key Healing Ingredients in This Recipe
Ingredients excerpted from Life-Changing Foods Expanded:
Mint
Eat this herb or drink it when you need to take a moment for yourself. This is a great herb for when you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or over heated as it will help to cool down your heart, brain, and liver.
Drinking mint tea to help with digestion after a complicated meal with different types of fat, protein, and carbohydrates is an age old practice as mint is a star at boosting digestion. Mint cleans up pathogens, fungus, and mold in its way through digestion, boosts hydrochloric acid, and cools down the liver and pancreatic heat.
Its amino acid profile makes mint adept at fighting off different causes of acidosis, such as bacteria (strep, staph, E. coli, C. difficile, H. pylori, chlamydia), mold, toxic fungus, low hydrochloric acid, and complex meals. Acidosis starts in the duodenum or esophagus and mint’s nutrient profile offers acidosis prevention and reversal.
Lemon
Instead of using hydration packets use lemon or limes for a natural and effective source of electrolytes and mineral salts- squeezing fresh juice from these fruits into a glass of water, onto your dish of food, or into a recipe like this green mint chutney will take you farther that pre-packaged electrolytes can.
Lemon is a great replacement for salt- even the highest quality salt, as salt is inherently dehydrating, can’t touch the mineral salt content lemons have. Celtic salt is higher in minerals than other varieties of salt such as table or sea salt, but lemons and limes offer mineral salts and bioavailable sodium extracted from the earth! Buffered vitamin C and calcium bond together and help prevent the growth of every kind of cancer, can iodized table salt do that?!
Garlic
Those in the Medical Medium® community know that cold and flu season has been replaced by the *ovid and Flu season (norovirus, RSV, white lung, and super flu), so when it is that time of year to protect yourself keep in mind the recipes that will directly knock down these pathogens, such as those with garlic in them.
Garlic is antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-parasite, anti-mold, and anti-worm. It boosts the nutrient profile of this green mint chutney. If there is an unwelcome foreign invader in the body garlic is not its friend and is a strong medicinal food to keep on hand. Its ability to support your body by ridding it of unwelcome pathogens makes it an immune boosting food. Smash a clove of garlic into potato, banana, or a teaspoon of honey for direct medicinal help, or add it to your recipes.
Final Thoughts
Easy and flavorful recipes such as this green mint chutney are healing tools because they blend the most potent healing foods together in a really delectable way. There is no doubt that you are getting a burst of minerals and vitamins packaged in a way that makes you want to keep making it. No matter what your taste preferences, finding recipes that help you enjoy changing your diet and continuing your healing path are important. Keep a record of them and make them a mainstay of your kitchen routine.
What is easier than throwing a handful of ingredients into the blender?
Let me know how this green mint chutney goes for you, I would love to see how you are using this recipe. You can tag me on Facebook and Instagram or leave a comment below.
To your health and healing,
Muneeza
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