Practice Library guide

Kitchari: the plant-based bowl Ayurveda calls the healthiest meal on earth

One perfect bowl: for your gut, your glow, and your calm.

Rebecca Mardi holding kitchari ingredients.

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What is kitchari?

100% plant-based. Naturally gluten-free. The gentlest bowl there is — loved by gut-healers, glow-chasers, busy people, and new mothers alike. A juice cleanse starves you; kitchari nourishes you.

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The most sattvic meal that exists:

The skillful use of ingredients, balances all the three bodily doshas.

The method

This is not a list to follow, it's a method to play with

Learn the simple method once: choose your oil, rice, lentils, and vegetables for how you feel that day (every option's pros and cons is presented on the book), then play. Cook it for life.

Inside the guide

Inside the guide

You could Google a random recipe and end up with bland beige mush… or you could get the one book that breaks down every lentil, every spice, and every vegetable, so you know exactly what to cook for your body, your mood, and your week. These are the easier, tastier, genuinely foolproof versions I've cooked hundreds of times — the ones that finally made kitchari click.

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