This turmeric smoothie was an unexpectedly delicious success! This morning my dad was told to get more turmeric into him so that he could recover from a badly pulled muscle and race next month. We did a bit of brainstorming on how best to cook with turmeric. In the past we have made a flu-fighting turmeric, ginger, lemon, honey infusion, but this beats it by miles! We first considered making a Turmeric Lassie from the Green Kitchen Travels cookbook, but since we didn’t have half the ingredients we thought we’d go for a vegan smoothie and use coconut milk. After foraging in the cupboard and freezer we came up with this non-alcoholic piña colada with freshly grated ginger, turmeric and crushed black pepper (which optimises the absorption of the turmeric).
1/2 tsp freshly grated ginger
1 tsp freshly grated turmeric (add another tsp if you want the extra kick!)
1 tsp ground turmeric
a pinch of crushed black peppercorns
200ml coconut milk
1/2 cup of frozen sliced bananas
1 cup of fresh or frozen tropical fruits (we found a bag of chopped and frozen pineapple, mango, kiwi in the freezer)
1 tbsp honey/agave
Blend everything in the mixer and sprinkle a little desiccated coconut, turmeric and black pepper on top. Enjoy!
We will have a go at this smoothy and let you know the verdict!
Thanks! Let me know if you like it as much as we did!
This looks amazing! I’ve been looking for tasty turmeric smoothie recipes. Can’t wait to try!
I’m glad you found this then! It made us feel very summery – despite being a British January…