I’m happy to have developed today’s recipe for Golden Honey Milk as part of my partnership with Horizon Organic. I love cooking with their naturally good products and I feel great about feeding them to my active kids. And my kids love the soothing, calming, just-sweet-enough Golden Honey Milk which is full of warming spices to help you wind down at the end of the day.
My guys have a little trouble winding down at a proper bed time. Their brains get going and just can’t stop. Do you or your kids have the whirling dervish of a mind issue? One helpful little trick we’ve discovered comes courtesy of one of the kids’ favourite film directors: Hiyao Miyazaki. In the film “Ponyo”, the mother prepares hot milk with honey and cinnamon. To approximate that, I combine the Ponyo Honey Milk with the much-hyped golden milk of Ayurvedic medicine. The result is a hot milk drink lightly sweetened with honey and spiced with cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, and a hint of black pepper.
Cook’s Notes
- Why black pepper? Well, honestly, it’s because turmeric is absolutely chock-a-block with fabulous nutritive properties, but it needs to be in the presence of black pepper to unlock its ultimate ability. And more than that, it needs black pepper in combination with heating to really get to its potential. And black pepper just gives a hint of background heat in this recipe, making it play second or third fiddle to the warming cinnamon, ginger, and turmeric, but making it an indispensable part of the round, filling spice in the Golden Honey Milk.
- You’re mixing up far more of the Golden Honey Milk Spice than you’ll need for one batch of Golden Honey Milk, but it’s awfully nice to have on hand. Some nights you just need a little warming, comforting drink before you go to bed, and this is actually good for you!
- If you want a little extra nutritional boost, use Horizon Whole Milk with DHA Omega-3 added which may support Brain Health. What a nice thing to do for yourself before bed!
- Regarding your choice of honey; use a mild one, preferably, but whatever honey you like the best. I prefer to use raw honey for the added benefits, and stir it in at the end to keep it from overheating.
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Golden Honey Milk
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For Golden Honey Milk Spice Mix
- 1/2 cup turmeric powder
- 1/4 cup ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 1 pinch ground cayenne pepper
To Make the Golden Honey Milk
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 teaspoons Golden Honey Milk Spice Mix
- 2 tablespoons raw mild honey
Instructions
To Make the Golden Honey Milk Spice Mix
- Whisk together all of the spice mix ingredients. Store in an airtight jar or container at room temperature out of direct light.
To Make Golden Honey Milk
- Pour the whole milk into a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the 2 teaspoons of Golden Honey Milk Spice Mix until even in colour. Continue whisking occasionally until steam rises from the surface of the milk. Turn the heat off and whisk in the raw honey. If you want milk with no spices in it, you can strain it into a mug.
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Reader's Thoughts...
Janyne says
Hi Rebecca, is there a particular brand of turmeric powder (or more than one) that you would recommend? I have tried a couple in the past that tasted so badly off / stale, that I ended up
having to request a refund from Amazon.
Rebecca says
Hi Jayne! I’m sorry to say I don’t have a particular recommendation. I try to buy it in a place that has quick turnover on spices… It’s usually far fresher that way.
Mari says
Hi👋🏽. Have you ever tried it without the pepper and cayenne in it? I’m asking because my son’s doctor has me to sprinkle turmeric on all of his food to help with brain inflammation. He has a sensitive stomach and I wants to know if it would taste right without the peppers in it. I think this would be a nice way for him to wind down.
Rebecca says
Hi Mari- Please make it according to your needs. I am not sure how it would taste without the peppers, because I have not tried it that way. I know that black pepper helps the body use turmeric but if it makes your son feel ill, I’d say go for omitting it!
Cardiff says
Half a cup of ginger and a quarter cup of cinnamon for only 2 cups of milk?! No, you’re outta your mind. This creates a burned paste. Needed to dilute the catastrophe with about 4 more cups of milk, 1 cup of water, and 2 more tablespoons of honey. Fix the recipe, please.
Rebecca says
Hi Cardiff- You did not read the recipe correctly. The instructions give you the ingredients to mix up a large amount of the spice mixture, but you only use a couple teaspoons of the mixture to 2 cups of milk. If I wrote it as you described it, it would certainly be horrible!! I’m surprised you managed to salvage that at all!
Angela Hastings says
Would this work with almond milk?
Rebecca says
Absolutely! I make mine with almond milk!
Rie says
Funny, my ‘bonus” sister and I were just talking today about not being able to go to sleep as our minds just keep running. Will give this a try for sure. Can’t hurt. (I’ve been meaning to look up the health benefits of turmeric and this was a great reminder. Thanks)
Molly Franks says
Really looking forward to trying this. It’s probably a good alternative to a Cuban Libre 😉
Rebecca says
HA! You might win today with that comment. 😀 <3