This healing Turmeric Tea is filled with turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, lemon, immune boosting spices, and sweetened with a touch of honey. This spicy, sweet and comforting tea is used to halt a cold or speed up recovery.
This healing turmeric tea is perfect for sipping on when you first feel a cold coming on and I happen to love it’s slightly spicy yet sweet taste.
I love using natural remedies when I feel a cold coming on. Although, I’m not opposed to using over the counter cold remedies and certainly do from time to time, there’s something wonderfully comforting about drinking a hot mug of tea full of immune boosting ingredients.
This certainly isn’t a new tea recipe. In fact, you might even have a similar tea recipe using ginger, cinnamon, or turmeric of your own that you make and use.
With cold and flu season with us for a while longer, I thought it would be a good time to share my version of turmeric tea that I make and use all throughout the year.
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Ingredients In Turmeric Tea
The ingredients are simple; fresh ginger, cinnamon and turmeric.
Optional add-ins are honey, lemon, and metabolism boosting cayenne pepper (Source).
I like to drink this tea with lemon juice but I don’t always add the honey. Sometimes I want the sweetness and other times I like drinking it without.
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Turmeric Tea Benefits
The main ingredients in this detox tea are so good for you, let’s take a look…
Ginger
Ginger has a long history of use in various forms of traditional and alternative medicine.
It has been used to fight colds and the flu, to help with digestion and to reduce nausea. (Source)
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is loaded with antioxidants and can help the body fight infections.
It has also been linked with reduced risk of heart disease. (Source)
Turmeric
Turmeric has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb.
It’s a powerful anti-inflammatory. Turmeric helps boost your immune system, can ease joint pain and is also good for digestion. (Source)
You might enjoy drinking this Ginger Turmeric Cinnamon tea as I do, once or twice a week. I seldom wait for a cold to drink it, I happen to love the way it tastes.
Enjoy!
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Turmeric Tea Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1-inch ginger root , peeled, rough chopped
- 3 cups water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey (optional) , to taste
Instructions
- Place the ginger in a pot and fill with the water. Bring to a boil, then add the cinnamon stick and stir in the turmeric and cayenne pepper.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice.
- Pour the tea through a strainer into a mug.
- Sweeten to taste with honey (optional).
Nutrition
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Such a great way to get turmeric in. I’ve been on a turmeric kick lately so this is just what I need right now.
First of all, I love the color of this!! I like drinking ginger tea when I’m not feeling well and love the idea of adding cinnamon and turmeric, too. This looks both beneficial and enjoyable!
I add pineapple juice to this blend too. But no honey as I don’t like extra sweetener.
Veronika
This not only looks delicious but also healtny. I should give it a try.
I love this blend for a cold, or even when I feel like I’m about to come down with something.
Love tea, don’t love being sick. Can’t wait to try this (sounds perfect with a good book!).