Turmeric ginger cinnamon lemon honey tea

Close-up of naturally golden turmeric, ginger and cinnamon tea.

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5 from 41 votes

Turmeric ginger cinnamon lemon honey tea

Easy, healthy, naturally golden and only requires 5 ingredients.

Prep Time3

Cook Time10

Course: Appetizer, Dessert, Drinks

Cuisine: Fusion

Servings:

Calories: 34kcal

Author: Zen

Equipment

Knife and cutting board
Spoon
Pot

Ingredients

10 slices Turmeric peeled and sliced. Substitute: turmeric powder
6-10 slices Ginger peeled and sliced. Substitute: dried ginger powder
1 Cinnamon Substitute: cinnamon powder
1 Lemon, squeeze Substitute: lime juice
6 Cups Water
Honey, to taste Ideally Manuka honey for the health benefits. Substitute: white or brown sugar

Instructions

Add all the ingredients to a pot, except the honey and lemon juice. Bring to the boil then reduce to a simmer.
After 10 minutes, taste and see if it's strong enough for you. If not, keep simmering. (I usually simmer for anything between 10-30 minutes depending on how much time I have!)
Once the flavor and color are to your liking, switch off the fire then pour in the lemon juice.
Add the honey to sweeten to taste.
Serve and enjoy!

Notes

The easiest way to peel turmeric and ginger that wastes the least is using the back of a spoon. For more ideas on how to use turmeric, click here. For a stronger ginger tea, use grated ginger.

Chinese cinnamon, or cassia, is sometimes labelled as cinnamon. Make sure you've got the real cinnamon to get the full health benefits of this tea!

Variations

This turmeric ginger tea recipe can be enjoyed both hot, on a cold day, or called as an iced tea in the summer
Turn it into Golden milk: this turmeric ginger and cinnamon tea also tastes great with milk, coconut milk or almond milk (start by using a 1:1 ratio of the turmeric tea to milk then adjusting to suit your taste, if necessary.)
If you enjoy spice, you can add a pinch of black pepper, cayenne pepper, clove or nutmeg to this soothing tea.

Note: the nutritional information is an estimate automatically calculated using the WPRM recipe maker and I am not responsible for its veracity.

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