Banyan Botanicals Kitchari Spice Mix / 99 Grams

One Spice Blend, One Dish, One Very Specific Job

A spice blend built for one dish, and that dish is kitchari, so it's doing its job. This is not an everything bagel of a spice mix. It is not trying to also season your chicken or save your bland soup. It was made for rice and lentils and nothing else, which, honestly, is the most honest relationship a spice jar has ever had with its food.

Banyan Botanicals Kitchari Spice Mix comes in a 99 gram jar, which is small, but kitchari is one of those dishes where a little goes a long way, like a landlord, or guilt. The blend leans on warming, traditional Ayurvedic spices, cumin, turmeric, coriander, the usual suspects you'd expect to show up to a kitchari party, and together they support healthy digestion and help the whole meal sit easier once it's in there doing its thing.

What It Actually Does

• Supports digestive comfort during and after meals
• Promotes a healthy inflammatory response, the normal kind, not the "something is wrong" kind
• Supports healthy energy levels through the day, the slow kind, not the kind that makes you reorganize a closet at 11pm
• Encourages a calm, grounded mood, which kitchari has always had a reputation for
• Nourishes the body with a traditional, time-tested combination of warming spices

Kitchari itself is a simple dish. Rice, lentils, water, patience. It's the dish people eat when they want their digestive system to take a day off and sit in a recliner. The spice mix is what keeps that recliner comfortable. You could technically make kitchari without it, the same way you could technically drive without a steering wheel, but why would you choose that life.

How People Use It

Stir it into your rice and lentils while they cook, or sprinkle it in near the end if you like your spices a little louder. There's no dosage ceremony here. It's a jar of spice, not a protocol. You use a spoon, you use your judgment, you move on with your day.

This product supports digestive wellness as part of a traditional Ayurvedic approach to eating, and it's best used alongside a generally healthy diet and lifestyle, not as a replacement for either one. It is a spice mix. It respects what it is.

99 grams doesn't sound like much until you realize that's a lot of kitchari, and kitchari, done right, is a lot of comfort. The jar is small. The job is narrow. The spice mix does not care. It just wants to go in the pot.