Golden milk sweetened with honey
Golden milk, also known as turmeric milk or haldi doodh in Hindi, is a traditional Indian drink that has gained popularity across the world in recent years. And it is not hard to understand why. The drink is warm, spicy, and comforting. Its vivid, golden color is impressive, but it is simple to prepare your own homemade golden milk as you need just 4 ingredients: milk, turmeric powder, cardamom powder, and honey. You can use any kind of milk in our recipe, depending on how rich you want your turmeric milk to be. For the thickest consistency and creamiest mouthfeel, use whole milk to make your homemade golden turmeric milk.
The warming spices have a natural bitterness that if softened by the addition of raw honey. Because our recipe uses turmeric powder rather than fresh turmeric, it is quicker to prepare and requires less clean-up. Since turmeric milk is quick and easy to make, it is perfect for enjoying in the morning. You can even prepare it as your baked oats with banana, blueberry, and almonds are in the oven.
Enjoy the spiced and warm flavor
Though a simple golden milk recipe contains very few ingredients, it is packed full of flavor given to it by the turmeric and cardamom. Turmeric, which is also sometimes called Indian saffron, is used in many Indian and Southeast Asian dishes to add flavor as well as color.
Turmeric powder has a quite powerful earthy bitterness that is best enjoyed when balanced by sweet spices or ingredients like honey. Its warming properties is shared with this recipe's other spice, cardamom, as well. Golden milk with cardamom has a subtle citrus flavoring stemming from this wonderful spice, and the overall effect is a complex, spiced drink.
Serve golden milk hot or cold
You can serve turmeric milk hot, cold, or iced, and because the milk-based drink can be enjoyed in many ways, essentially the best time to drink golden milk is whenever you feel like it. Cold, the drink can be used as a substitute for regular milk, which means you can use it to pour over your oats in the morning to spice up your breakfast.
To make iced golden milk latte, prepare the drink using only 1 cup of milk and save the rest. Pour the warm milk mixture into big glasses filled with ice and top off the drink with the remainder of the cold milk. Stir until the mixture is combined and enjoy it immediately. A golden milk iced latte is delicious and refreshing on a hot afternoon and tasting the warm, spicy flavors in an iced drink is an interesting and fun experience.
Make it your own
If you like your beverages especially creamy, try adding a bit of coconut milk to our recipe for golden milk. Coconut milk is rich and has a sweet, nutty flavor with floral undertones. Adding it to your homemade turmeric milk makes it slightly thicker in consistency and retains its wonderful rich mouthfeel.
It is also possible to use the milk-based drink to mix up other recipes and dishes. You can, for instance, use it to prepare spicier versions of breakfast classics like oatmeal, overnight oats, or smoothies. Try using it instead of regular milk in a mango smoothie recipe or blending it with a mix of yellow fruits like banana, mango, and papaya to make a tropical breakfast golden milk smoothie that still showcases the signature golden color of the turmeric. Using frozen fruit will yield a thicker smoothie, but you can, of course, use fresh fruit or mix of frozen and fresh ones.
If you want to use the turmeric milk to make a sweet treat, pour the cooled drink into popsicle moulds, let them freeze, and enjoy beautiful, yellow popsicles that are both refreshing, creamy, and spicy at the same time.
