Healthy turmeric latte recipe

Want to make sure you reap the benefits of wonder-spice turmeric? Try making your own turmeric latte to ensure you get the nutritional values while knowing exactly what’s in your cup.

 

 

Ingredients (Makes 10 cups)

  • 5 tsp ground turmeric
  • 2½ tsp ground ginger
  • 2½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp black pepper

Note: you might want to start off with ½ tsp unless you’re already used to turmeric lattes – for a newbie, five tsps might be a bit strong!

Method:

Mix spices together. Store in an air-tight container.

To serve, take 1 tsp of the powder. Mix into ½ cup of hot milk of choice and ½ cup hot water. Sweeten with ½ tsp honey or some stevia if you need.

Nutritional value
(per serve):

Without milk

• 55kJ

• <1g fat, sugar, etc

With full-fat milk

• 416kJ

• 8g sugar (naturally occurring from milk)

• 5g fat

With skim milk

•303kJ

•7g sugar (naturally occurring from milk)

• 2g fat

With almond milk

• 242kJ

• 3g sugar

• 4g fat

With (carton) coconut milk

• 233kJ

• 2g sugar

• 4g fat

Recipe courtesy of Samantha Gemmell.

 

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