Healthy Living
Add Turmeric To Your Winter Diet Can Work Wonders For Your Body
Table of Contents
The Winter season is the best time of the year for many reasons – Good food, Christmas and New Year celebrations, and many more.
However, this festival season also brings some seasonal health issues like cold and cough being the most common winter woes. But you can look too homely warming foods to keep the winter chills at bay and make you healthy from the inside out.
Turmeric is one such Indian spice loaded with its incredible taste, color, and medicinal properties. Turmeric helps you to fight various health issues naturally. Ayurveda also suggests the use of turmeric to fight various ailments. The herb’s properties range from antiviral, antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal, to anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic.
Turmeric, also known as the queen of spices that plays a vital role in an Indian kitchen. It adds color to the food and also enhances the taste of the food. In winter turmeric offer you amazing healths benefits because of its healing properties.
Here are some ways to use incorporate turmeric in food for better health this winter season
Turmeric tea:
Sipping a hot cup of tea in a chilling winter is a blessing. You can swap your regular tea with turmeric tea. This will boost your immunity and help you prevent various health issues in the winter season. Dissolve 2 teaspoon turmeric powder in 2 cups of boil water, and add 1tablespoon of raw honey, squeeze some lemon juice, and a sprinkle of black pepper. Boil for a min and drink it.
Soup it up:
Add a tbs of turmeric powder to your vegetable soup along with lots of fresh oregano, to kill any viruses and infection that may be in your body.
Special seasoning:
Put an equal amount of turmeric, coriander, and cumin in a saltshaker on your dining table, and sprinkle it on everything!
Smoothie smarts:
Add a pinch of turmeric to your smoothie. This will be beneficial without changing the taste of your smoothie too much.
Banana Cashew Turmeric Muffins:
2 mashed ripe bananas
1 cup chopped cashews
1 teaspoon each cinnamon, turmeric, nutmeg, cardamom, cloves, and salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ cup melted coconut oil
Mix the wet ingredients and dry ingredients in two separate bowls. Later little mix wet ingredients into dry, and pour into muffin tins. Bake the muffins at 350 degrees for 25 min and your health booster muffins in ready to have.