Golden Milk
By Nmami Agarwal 10-May 2022 Reading Time: 2 Mins
Golden Milk is our traditional ‘haldi doodh”. It is a delicacy made of simple ingredients like milk, turmeric, and spices, yet has medicinal benefits. It fights infection, cough, congestion, cold, menstrual cramps and skin problems. A home remedy that’s ready to serve you with all the good health.
For a Serving Size of Two:
Ingredients:
- 300 ml milk
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 pinch ground ginger
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- 1 pinch ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Procedure:
- Whisk turmeric, cardamom, black pepper, ginger, cloves, and allspice together in a small bowl.
- Heat milk in a small saucepan over medium heat until heated through, 3 to 4 minutes.
- Stir vanilla extract into milk until completely dissolved.
- Whisk 1 teaspoon turmeric mixture into milk mixture; reduce heat to medium-low and cook until flavors blend, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Pour mixture through a strainer and serve.
Nutritional Benefits:
- Milk is an excellent source of calcium and protein and helps build stronger bones, promote heart and skin health. It is also known to induce sound sleep.
- Turmeric has antibacterial and antibiotic properties which help fight bacterial and viral infections.
- Other spices like cardamom, black pepper will give you enhanced immunity.
- Golden Milk with all the ingredients, will surely give you a healthy glow, strong bones, immunity, aid weight loss and improve sleep quality, making it the perfect thing to have before you go to bed.
Nutritional Information:
- Calories: 224 kcal
- Protein: 10.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 18.8 g
- Fat: 12.3 g