Easy recipes with Golden Turmeric Blend for your everyday food
1. Golden Turmeric milk aka Turmeric latte
Serves 1
Ingredients
- 1 cup of milk of your choice
- 1 teaspoon of AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- Optional - 1/2 teaspoon of coconut sugar
How to make
- Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to boil
- Pour it into a cup & enjoy!
Best time to enjoy
Early fall to late spring as light breakfast, in-between meals or bedtime tonic
2. Dates and pear breakfast khichari
Serves 1
Ingredients
- ½ cup basmati rice thoroughly washed
- ½ cup yellow mung beans thoroughly washed. preferably soaked for 2-3 hours
- 1 small pear finely chopped
- 1 mejdool dates finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon AyuSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- Pink himalayan salt to taste
- 3 – 3.5 cups of water
- Optional – 1 teaspoon of cow’s ghee or coconut oil if vegan
How to make
- Combine all the ingredients except cow’s Ghee / coconut oil in a saucepan
- Bring the water to boil
- Reduce the heat to low, cover and cook until the rice and yellow mung beans are tender to the consistency of oatmeal (typically takes 15-20 minutes)
- Turn off the gas and stir in cow's ghee / coconut oil
- Serve warm
Best time to enjoy
Breakfast
Pro tip
Replace pear with a sweet variety of apple when they are in season!
3. Butternut squash & red lentil soup
Serves 3
Ingredients
- ½ cup red Lentils thoroughly washed, soaked for 3+ hours
- 2 cups butternut squash cubed
- 3 cups of water
- 1 teaspoon AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- ½ teaspoon roasted cumin powder
- Himalayan pink salt to taste
- Fresh parsley or cilantro & lime for garnish
- Optional – 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil aka EVOO
How to make
- Combine all the ingredients except evoo, parsley / cilantro and lime in a saucepan.
- Bring the water to boil
- Reduce the heat to low, cover and cook until the lentils and squash are tender (typically takes 15-20 minutes)
- Turn off the gas, and blend with an immersion blender (let the soup cool down a bit to prevent burns from splutter, if any)
- Stir in EVOO
- Serve warm, topped with fresh parsley or cilantro and a light squeeze of lime
Best time to enjoy
Lunch or dinner, Meatless Mondays
4. Overnight oats
Serves 2
Ingredients
- 1 cup (237ml) rolled or instant oats original/unsweetened
- 2 cups dairy or nut milk
- 2 teaspoon AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- 2-3 pieces of mejdool dates or 4-5 dried figs
- Optional toppings – walnuts, pistachios, cocoa nibs
How to make
- Blend together the milk, Golden Turmeric Blend and dates in a high-speed blender to make a smoothie
- Add oats and the smoothie in a bowls/glass jar and mix them up well
- Sprinkle any of the optional toppings if desired
- Cover the bowl / glass jar and put it in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours
Best time to enjoy
Breakfast
5. Immunity balls/pastilles
7 servings
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons powdered or grated jaggery
- 2 teaspoon AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- 2 teaspoons melted cow’s ghee (might need a bit over depending on the quality of jaggery)
How to make
- Mix the ingredients well in a bowl with your hand until they start to bind a bit
- Take 1 teaspoon of the mixture and roll it into a ball, and repeat this 6 times
Best time to enjoy
Start or end of day
6. Veggie khichari
Serves 2
Ingredients
- ½ cup white rice thoroughly washed
- ½ cup yellow mung beans thoroughly washed. preferably soaked for 2-3 hours
- 1 teaspoon AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ½ tablespoon cow’s ghee or coconut oil
- ½ cup seasonal veggies - green beans, summer & winter squashes, carrots go well
- 3-4 cups of water, depending upon the consistency you prefer
- Salt to taste
- Cilantro & a squeeze of lime for garnish (optional)
How to make
- Warm up cow’s ghee or coconut (if vegan) in a saucepan
- Add the cumin seeds and let them splutter
- Add the curry leaves, AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend, white rice and yellow mung beans, veggies and give it a good stir
- Add water and salt
- Bring the water to boil
- Turn the heat down to simmer, cover the saucepan until the rice and beans are tender and mushy. Typically, that takes about 15-20 minutes.
- Garnish with fresh cilantro and a squeeze of lime juice (optional) and enjoy this comforting meal!
Best time to enjoy
Lunch or dinner
Feels great the day after a big meal/party
7. Stewed apples or pears
Serves 1
Ingredients
- 2 apples of sweet variety e.g., gala, honey crisp or pears
- 3-4 tablespoons of water
- 1/2 teaspoon AyurSome Wellness' Golden Turmeric Blend
- Optional - 1 teaspoon cow’s ghee or coconut oil if vegan
How to make
- Peel, core and cut the apples into thin slices or half inch cubes
- Combine cut apples, water and Golden Turmeric Blend into a pan
- Start cooking over medium flame until the water comes to boil
- Reduce the heat to low, cover and let is simmer until the apples are tender (about 15-18 minutes)
- Turn off the heat
- Add cow’s ghee / coconut oil
Best time to enjoy
Breakfast & snack