Tag Archives: mung beans

Balancing Kichardi

Kichardi is like the chicken soup of India.  It is very nourishing and healing.  The combination of the rice and mung beans makes it a complete protein dish, and the use of mung beans makes it is very easy to digest. The bonus is that it is super easy to make, and very tasty.   I ...


Mung Beans

Many of us may know mung beans in their sprouted form, the long white crunchy "veggie" used in many Chinese or Vietnamese stir fries and other dishes.  But the mung bean legume (not vegetable) has many forms: whole, split with skins on, split and hulled, flour, and of course sprouted. Whole mung beans are small round ...


Nightshade Substitutes

I’m still experimenting, and will comment more as I eventually address many of these foods in more detail. But here are a few ideas for substitutes of the most common nightshades. Note: I explain the adverse effects of nightshades in more detail here. Sweet Potatoes for White Potatoes - While sweet potatoes belong to the same plant order ...