Foundations: Journey to Indian Cooking – 4 Part Series

Journey into Indian Cooking offers a practical introduction to Ayurvedic culinary traditions, blending hands-on cooking instruction with timeless principles of digestion, seasonality, and balance. This course is designed to help students develop confidence in the kitchen while understanding how food choices and preparation methods influence health and vitality.

Students explore foundational skills such as spice preparation, flavor balancing, chopping and soaking techniques, and the use of healthy fats like ghee. These skills are applied across a range of traditional Indian dishes, emphasizing both light, digestive-supportive meals and deeply nourishing comfort foods. Seasonal considerations play a central role, with guidance on adjusting ingredients, spices, and cooking methods to support warmth, cooling, immunity, and metabolic balance throughout the year.

Rather than prescribing fixed menus, the course encourages adaptability and intuition. Ayurvedic concepts of taste, energetics, and food combinations help students learn how to create meals that support digestion and comfort without excess heaviness. The course also highlights the ritual and mindfulness of cooking, reinforcing food as both nourishment and medicine.

By the end of the course, students gain practical culinary skills alongside a deeper understanding of how traditional Indian cooking supports digestion, immunity, and long-term wellbeing.

What you’ll learn:

• Foundational principles of Ayurvedic cooking

Traditional spice preparation and flavor balancing techniques

How preparation methods influence digestion and nutrient assimilation

Seasonal food strategies for warmth, cooling, and balance

Use of healthy fats and grounding foods for nourishment

Integrating ritual, intention, and mindfulness into cooking

This class is ideal for:

• Home cooks exploring Indian or Ayurvedic cuisine

Ayurvedic and holistic nutrition students

Herbalists and wellness professionals

Anyone interested in food as daily medicine

Individuals seeking practical, adaptable cooking skills