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Golden Pot
Turmeric, ginger, pepper, and a little honey.
A kitchen golden cup: turmeric bloomed with black pepper, ginger for heat, honey at the end. Traditional stiff-day kettle. Milk makes it a golden milk; water keeps it a tea.
- Steep
- 10 min
- Water
- 100°C / 212°F
- Caffeine
- None
Taste · Earth-spice, pepper, warm
Ingredients
1 cup
- Organic turmeric powder · or 3 cm fresh root½ tsp
- Fresh ginger3 slices
- Black pepper1 pinch
- Raw honey · optional1 tsp
Method
- 1
Simmer turmeric, ginger, and pepper 8–10 minutes.
- 2
Strain if you used fresh root. Honey off the heat.
Why this cup
- A warming cup on achey, cold days
- Pepper is traditional with turmeric
- Works with water or milk
Go gently
- Stains. Culinary amounts.
- Turmeric in large amounts may not suit gallstones, blood thinners, or pregnancy — keep it to kitchen pinches.
- Not a treatment for arthritis.
Steep timer
10:00
