Yogic Ahara

Also known as Sakalpriy, Harimonth, Chanaka in Sanskrit and Cicer Arietinum in Latin, Chana or chickpeas are easily available and can be prepared in a variety of ways.

- Minati Shah

When fried after soaking, it bestows strength and improves taste. Dry frying (heating in a pan without oil) aggravates Vata and can cause skin diseases. When prepared as a soup, it is debilitating. Steam cooking mitigates Pitta and Kapha. Freshly harvested (green) Chana (Harbhara) are soft, tasty, mitigate Kapha and pitta and are easy to digest according to Bhavaprakash.

Chana roasted in Ghee are also easy to digest alongside being nutritious. They have many other benefits as well. Susruta mentions that they mitigate all the three