Beetroot Soup | Ayurvedic Meal 1

I attended a cooking class by Dr Sujatha Kekada in Ubud Bali. Dr Sujatha is an Ayurvedic doctor who owns Amrta Siddhi an Ayurvedic clinic at Nyuh Kuning in Ubud. The five recipes she planned out for us that afternoon was a dosha balancing meal. So far I've only tried out 3 of them.

This was the first dish, an appetizer to prepare the gut for a better digestion. We were all pretty reluctant to taste it at first as you must agree it is an unacceptable color for a delicious bowl of soup? But it turned out to be the yummiest homemade vegetable soup I've ever tasted. Those who said they weren't hungry, scraped the pot cleaned!

Ayurvedic Beetroot Soup Recipe

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Ingredients

• 1/2 kg beetroot peeled and halved
  
• 1 medium sized potato and halved
  
• 1/2 tspn thyme leaves
• 2 cloves garlic sliced
  
• 1/4 cup shallots sliced
  
• 2 cups water
  

Seasoning and oils

• 1 tbsp ghee
  
• 2 tspn sea salt
• 1 tspn ground black pepper
  

Directions

1. Boil beetroot and potato for 5 mins at medium heat.
2. Sauté the garlic and shallot
   
3. Pour beetroot and potato together with the stock into the blender. Add in garlic and shallot and blend until texture is smooth.
4. Pour the smooth paste into the pot and bring to boil.
5. Add thyme and ground black pepper.
   

Serves 6 people.