Recipe Category: Dinner

Dinner is one of the most important meals, as it affects the quality of our sleep. For Ayurveda, it is ideal that you only eat cooked, easily digestible foods for dinner. Furthermore, it’s a good idea to have your last meal of the day at least 3 hours before going to bed.

Here we’ve brought together our entire collection of Ayurvedic Dinner recipes, with information on how to customize them for each dosha constitution.

For Ayurveda, nutrition is a little more complex than just foods that are healthy and others that are not. There are the best times to eat and also what you should avoid at certain times and you should also customize your diets according to your constitution – your dosha and your current health status.

Try our dinner recipes!

You can also learn more about Ayurvedic cuisine in this article here.

Lentil Mango Salad with Tofu

Discover a vibrant Lentil Mango Salad with Tofu, perfect for health enthusiasts seeking Ayurvedic balance and flavour.

Green pea cream soup

This Green Peas Cream Soup is a wholesome and comforting dish. It blends the creamy richness of peas, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The soup also includes the cooling freshness of mint and fennel. It is perfect for dinner and gentle on the digestive system. This makes it an ideal choice for anyone seeking a light yet nourishing meal.

Tagliatelle Vegan Bolognese

This vegan twist on the classic Tagliatelle Bolognese isn’t just a treat for your taste buds—it’s a nourishing, balanced meal. With plant-based protein, healthy fats, and essential vitamins, this recipe is ideal for those seeking a nutritious yet flavorful dish.

Textured Pea Protein stars in this dish, offering an impressive protein boost without meat’s heaviness. Rich in essential amino acids, it aids muscle repair and energy levels. It’s also perfect for those with allergies, being gluten, soy, and dairy-free.

The finishing touch, a vegan parmesan alternative made with nutritional yeast and roasted cashews, is delicious and nutritious. Nutritional yeast provides B vitamins, including B12, with a savory, cheesy flavor. Cashews contribute healthy fats, protein, and magnesium, supporting muscle and nerve function.

Warm salad

This warm salad was designed especially for people with Vata Dosha, as people with an imbalance of this Dosha should avoid eating raw vegetables. This is a great way to make the salad easier to digest, so the warm salad is a perfect dinner for all doshas.

Vegetarian Cauliflower pumpkin soup

This Vegetarian Cauliflower pumpkin soup recipe is a delicious soup to warm up your winter evenings. The perfect dinner for a cozy evening!
This soup has several vegetables as a base, bringing many nutrients to your diet, vitamins and minerals. Furthermore, it has low carbohydrates and lots of dietary fibre, bringing greater satiety to your dinner and helping you to lose weight.
As it is a warm and light meal, it is easy to digest, making this Cauliflower pumpkin soup a perfect dinner option for Ayurveda.

Mung beans pumpkin stew

photo of Mung beans stew with pumpkin and rice on a blue plate with brown border. Next to the plate is a golden spoon

This mung beans stew with pumpkin and rice recipe is a complete, creamy, extremely nutritious and delicious meal! Easy to digest, rich in flavour, and is perfect for a lunch or dinner in the autumn.

This plant-based dish is rich in protein, using mung beans, quinoa and rice as a source of protein and carbohydrates. This combination provides all the necessary amino acids, making this meal very complete. Additionally, coconut milk and ghee (or coconut oil for a vegan version) are great sources of good fats.

Potatoes-peas stew

This potatoes-peas stew recipe is a plant-based protein-rich, nutritionally balanced option. Very well seasoned and delicious, it is the perfect option for your dinner.
As a source of protein in the recipe, we are using peas, which are also a source of carbohydrates, dietary fibre and various micronutrients. Another source of carbohydrate in this meal is potatoes. As a source of fats, we are using ghee, but you can replace it with coconut oil for a vegan dish.

Millet patties

This millet patties recipe is a gluten-free meal that is very satisfying and versatile. Because it has a low glycemic index, it is an excellent option for people with diabetes and for weightloss.
Millet is a grain that does not contain gluten, it is an excellent source of dietary fibre and several minerals. Including this grain in your diet is not only a good way to make gluten-free adaptations, but also to include its many benefits in your diet. Millet is especially interesting for diabetic patients, as it prevents abrupt variations in blood glucose levels.

Millet Patties are a great appetizer option, to enjoy along with some dipping sauce. For a vegetarian option that is also gluten-free and very rich in dietary fibre, millet and chickpeas can be used as a base.

Vegan pasta Bolognese

This Vegan pasta Bolognese recipe is a delicious vegan alternative to one of the most popular pasta recipes.
Bolognese is one of the most traditional and appreciated pasta recipes. To make this much-loved recipe accessible to all tastes, we made a vegan adaptation, using soy to replace meat.

Summer vegetable soup

A summer vegetable soup that is easy to digest. This recipe is perfect for dinner or lunch as an appetizer.
Soups are perfect as appetizers and for dinner, mainly because they are easy to digest, which means that your digestion does not affect your sleep.
This summer vegetable soup recipe is well balanced in nutrients, green beans are a good source of vegetable protein and the other vegetables balance the dish with micronutrients. There are also good sources of fat, making this soup a well-balanced meal.