Breakfast
Keep calm and OMM…..NOMNOMNOM
At Kranti yoga, breakfast is kept light. Always plenty of fresh local fruit from the market and Indian curd. We also have a “bhaaji of the day”, not served with the traditional fritter, but a more healthy mix of vegetables and lentils fried in spices – equally good as a side dish as it is a breakfast savory.
This year we’ve also been brewing our own kombucha which is super healthy for your gut. The only problems we find, is keeping up with demand!!
During The Yoga asanas especially forward and reverse bending poses, there is pressure on abdominal organs which may push the food upwards resulting in feeling of great discomfort, because most of the blood circulation will be diverted to the digestive tract. This is the reason we serve breakfast after morning practice. But don’t worry it means you’ll feel even better tucking into your well earned breakfast. And there’s always coffee and chai available.
While coffee drinking doesn’t necessarily help your Yoga practic
“No Coffee, No Prana” – Pattabhi Jois
having a cup of coffee after you wake up isn’t likely to interfere with your five o’clock practice. In moderation, coffee and yoga can coexist as a part of a healthy routine. Chai tea is a fragrant, spicy tea that is native to India. Coming in many different forms depending on how you take it. It is thought that chai may help boost heart health, reduce blood sugar levels, aid digestion, and help with weight loss.
Although most of these health benefits are backed by science, it’s worth noting that they are generally linked to the ingredients used in chai tea rather than chai tea itself. It is often also laden with sugar.
Kombucha, when raw and unpasteurized, like ours, is rich in probiotics. The healthy gut bacteria associated with heart health, lower rates of anxiety and depression, fewer yeast infections, weight management, boosted immunity, and, you guessed it, improved digestive health.
This is our basic recipe the you can try at home. We follow this recipe but in huge quantities. The only difference is the it takes a little longer to ferment.
- 12 tablespoons loose tea OR 8 tea bags
- 1 cup of sugar
- 13-14 cups water
- 2 cups previous kombucha
- 1 scoby
THE GIST: MAKING HOMEMADE KOMBUCHA
- What You’ll Need : Active SCOBY, water, sugar, tea, distilled white vinegar or starter tea, glass jar, cover, and warm spot out of direct sunlight.
- Instructions : Dissolve sugar in water, steep tea, let it cool, remove tea bags, add vinegar or starter tea, and SCOBY, cover, and culture for 7-30 days at room temperature (68-85°F) out of direct sunlight. Retain tea and SCOBY for next batch. Repeat.
- Fermentation Temperature & Time : 70-80º F is ideal culturing temperature. Warmer temperatures speed up fermentation, cooler temperatures slow it down. The longer you let your kombucha culture the less sweet and more vinegary it will become.
- Signs of Fermentation : Flavour becomes less sweet more vinegary, SCOBY thickens, stringy brown yeast particle present, haze or new baby SCOBY at top of the liquid, tea has lightened in colour.
DISH: Breakfast Pancakes
“Scoby" is actually an acronym: Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast. A scoby is the living home for the bacteria and yeast that transform sweet tea into tangy, fizzy kombucha — think of the scoby as the coral reef of the bacteria and yeast world. It a rubbery raft that floats on the surface of the kombucha.
Having a cup of coffee after you wake up isn’t likely to interfere with your five o’clock practice. In moderation, coffee and yoga can coexist as a part of a healthy routine. Chai tea is a fragrant, spicy tea that is native to India. Coming in many different forms depending on how you take it. It is thought that chai may help boost heart health, reduce blood sugar levels, aid digestion, and help with weight loss.
Although most of these health benefits are backed by science, it’s worth noting that they are generally linked to the ingredients used in chai tea rather than chai tea itself. It is often also laden with sugar.
Kombucha, when raw and unpasteurized, like ours, is rich in probiotics. The healthy gut bacteria associated with heart health, lower rates of anxiety and depression, fewer yeast infections, weight management, boosted immunity, and, you guessed it, improved digestive health.
This is our basic recipe the you can try at home. We follow this recipe but in huge quantities. The only difference is the it takes a little longer to ferment.
- 2 tablespoons loose tea OR 8 tea bags
- 1 cup of sugar
- 13-14 cups water
- 2 cups previous kombucha
- 1 scoby