☀️Golden Sunshine Elixir ☀️

This turmeric and ginger jar of sunshine is liquid gold! Making a beautiful warming drink with it to start my day is just perfect at this time of year. It's zingy with ginger, lemon and raw cidre apple vinegar, fragrant with cinnamon and cardamon, deep with musky turmeric, sweet with local honey, and with a spicy kick from black pepper and turkish chilli. 😋 😋 😋 🍋🍯🌶 🍠
Bloody great for boosting your immunity and keeping colds at bay. There are so many colds around right now 🤧
The main ingredient is Turmeric, which gives it its sunshine hue. This Indian spice has been used for its medicinal properties for thousands of years with its main active ingredient being curcumin, a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
I use a mix of fresh turmeric and fresh ginger, black pepper as it aids absorption of the turmerics active ingredient. Plus I add these optional extra to my recipe - cinnamon (anti inflamitory and full of antioxidants), cardamon because I love it, and turkish chilli (ditto).

How to make it :
4tbsp of honey
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp chilli flakes
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cardamon
Zest and juice of 2 lemons
50 grams fresh turmeric root - grated
50 grams fresh ginger - grated

Simply mix all the ingredients together in a food small processor, with a little water to loosen if required. (Using a stick blender will also work.) It should be a loose paste consistency. Then store in a glass jar in the fridge (makes a jam jar full).

To make your cup of sunshine, simply mix 2 tablespoons of the paste with hot (not boiling) water in a cup, option to add 1 tablespoon of raw apple cider vinegar (the one with with the 'mother'). Stir, taste and add more honey or lemon juice to taste.
Susan x

PS Turmeric STAINS - so be careful. I have very orange fingers for days afterwards!!