{"id":4597,"date":"2013-10-26T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2021-05-01T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T21:36:03","slug":"lunch-flask-kitchari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2013\/10\/lunch-flask-kitchari\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Flask Kitchari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to find time rushing in the morning before work and school, but if you can make a few moments to throw together sandwiches to brown-bag for lunch, then there&#8217;s enough time for an incredibly filling, nutritious soup. This is an <a title=\"Ayurveda is an ancient medical system from India.\" href=\"https:\/\/doshaguru.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ayurvedic<\/a> (ancient Indian system of health) take-to-work lunch, a single serving so large you can enjoy a few spoons of it later as a guilt-free afternoon snack. My version is vegan.<\/p>\n<p>This is for a single serving. Easy to double, but use 3 1\/2 cups water and 1 1\/2 teaspoons spice; you can always top off the thermal flasks with a little more boiling water.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hot water for preheating thermal flasks<\/li>\n<li>1 Tablespoon vegetable oil<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon ground Indian spice blend, such as curry powder, garam masala or an ayurvedic <a title=\"Any of three &quot;spice mixtures [that] satisfy the six ayurvedic tastes considered essential for balance&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/mapi.com\/maharishi_ayurveda\/products\/mind_body_gourmet_food\/spice_mixture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">churna<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>2 cups water<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup split mung beans OR red lentils, inspected and rinsed<\/li>\n<li>1 Tablespoon brown rice OR other grain such as pearl barley, rinsed<\/li>\n<li>1 cup chopped vegetables, frozen OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fill a wide-mouth quart or liter vacuum jar half full of very hot water to preheat. This recipe makes just over a pint of soup, but initially it takes more space. Preheating the Thermos a few minutes is the key step to this recipe&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>For time&#8217;s sake, starting heating the 2 cups water, perhaps in a kettle, while gathering the other ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>Have legumes, grain, spice mixture and vegetables ready by stove. Heat small saucepan on medium 2 minutes. Add oil then spices and salt, and saute, stirring, just 5 seconds. Add the water, legumes and grain. Increase heat to high. Bring to vigorous boil. Add vegetables and return to vigorous boil. Altogether the cooking should take about 3 minutes. Simmering a couple more minutes won&#8217;t hurt a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Empty hot water from vacuum jar. Carefully spoon soup from pan into it and screw on top. The soup will be cooked in no less than 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Fat-free version: Omit the oil, saut\u00e9 nothing, and add the spices and salt along with the vegetables, legumes and grain to the water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Adapted by Ben S. Pollock from <a href=\"http:\/\/online.fliphtml5.com\/hqgy\/welg\/#p=21\">Lunch Flask Lunch<\/a> in\u00a0<em>The Raj <a href=\"http:\/\/online.fliphtml5.com\/hqgy\/welg\/#p=1\">Recipe Book<\/a><\/em>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/theraj.com\">The Raj Ayurvedic Health Center<\/a> in Fairfield, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to find time rushing in the morning before work and school, but if you can make a few moments to throw together sandwiches to brown-bag for lunch, then there&#8217;s enough time for an incredibly filling, nutritious soup. This is an ayurvedic (ancient Indian system of health) take-to-work lunch, a single serving so large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4607,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2013\/10\/says-who-miso\/","url_meta":{"origin":4597,"position":0},"title":"Says Who? 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