This turmeric latte recipe is delicious as your morning drink (perhaps instead of coffee) or an afternoon sweet pick me up.
The recipe is for the paste. You make this in ‘bulk’, keep it in the fridge (for up to 3 weeks) and then use 1 tsp every time you want a cup. You can also double/triple up the recipe if you know you’ll want a few.
Turmeric has really great anti inflammatory effects mostly from its main active ingredient, curcumin. You don’t need to know a million things about it, apart from that it’s super good for you and this drink will draw out any nasty colds/flu that you might be harbouring.
Ingredients
For initial paste
1 tbsp turmeric
1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tbsp ground ginger
pinch of ground black pepper (activates the curcumin in turmeric so make sure you put it in)
1 tbsp coconut oil (also essential to make all goodies bioavailable)
3 tbsp (45ml) of water
For one cup
250ml (ish) coconut milk (I measure this amount by filling my mug up with milk first to how much I’d like and then pouring it into the pan)
1/2 tsp honey/maple syrup
Method
To make paste
Put coconut oil into small pan and melt on medium heat
Add all ground spices and mix them up with spoon
Add water and continue to mix on medium - high heat until it forms a paste
This paste can then be put into a ramekin/Tupperware (although it will stain Tupperware) and kept in the fridge for 3/4 weeks to make around 5 turmeric lattes.
To make one cup
Take one big teaspoon of paste into small pan on medium heat
Add coconut milk (my preferred milk but oat and almond are also yummy)
Stir until milk is warm, steaming and the paste has melted so the mixture has all turned yellow
Taste and if you’d like to, add sweetener of honey or maple syrup. You have to judge the amount for yourself - about 1/2 tsp is right for me but you can add more or less
Note: if you are using sweetened coconut milk that you may not need the sweetener, so definitely taste it before adding. You can use different plant milks instead but note that they will taste different/more sweet/less sweet.
If you like this, you may also like my chai latte recipe.
Let me know when you make it!
Love Kiri xx