With the cold weather here to stay for the next few months, many of us feel more tired and need a pick me up that is healthy and warm! Here is a recipe for Golden Milk by fellow teacher, Melanie MacDonald that can keep us healthy through these winter months!
Golden Milk Recipe
a healing drink to help rejuvenate your cells, clear your skin, eyes, and help to lubricate your joints, and a plethora of other helpful healthful attributes from no only turmeric's curcumin component (anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, antiseptic, analgesic, anti-carcinogenic, increases digestive health, lowers triglycerides, and helps to ease neurological disorders) but also from the circulatory and digestive balancing effects of cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger
2 cups milk (oat, almond, goat, cow, your choice just organic is best) 2 tsp turmeric powder 1 pinch each of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger powders (I have a spice jar that has these three spice powders mixed equally and then it's an easy shake to get all three) 2 pinches of ground black pepper (helps bring out curcumin benefits of turmeric) 1/8-1/4 tsp of coconut oil or ghee (optional)
mix all ingredients into a pot and bring to a boil, turn eat to low, warm for a moment more, turn off heat, add raw local honey to your liking, it may be more at first until you're use to the taste, although some may find they take to the pungent taste right away.
I have mixed 1/2 TBSP and a drop of maple syrup to help it be taste friendly to my children. They drink it up and I find myself feeling it like a treat drink. It is just fine without sweetening, so aim to do the minimal sweetening you need.
Raw honey is helpful and best in the spring, maple syrup as sweetener would be good in the summer, both honey and maple would be good for fall and early winter.
This drink taste so auspicious to me, and it's golden color brings a remembering of Ganesha so to my kids I call this drink Golden Ganesha's....Enjoy Warm.
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