Chilled, with creamy coconut milk, lovely spices, and gently sweetened with honey, this AIP-friendly drink is a delicious way to cool down and get anti-inflammatory spices into your diet.
I’ve been working on getting anti-inflammatory spices in my diet on a more regular basis. This beautiful iced drink gives me not only healthy (and creamy) coconut milk, but the scrumptious flavors of turmeric, ginger, vanilla and is gently sweetened with honey. Leave out if on a strict Autoimmune Protocol Diet, but here I’ve also added one of my favorite spices, cardamom. It adds so much! This is one delicious way to enjoy these spices.
Before I brought you a more traditional Golden Milk recipe, then I brought you a Golden Turmeric Sipping Broth – which is a savory version of the sweet drink. Now I wanted something to enjoy on a hot afternoon, and this is lovely for that.
For other lovely summer recipes check out this list of 41 Sweet and Refreshing Summer Recipes.
AIP notes: Use gum free coconut milk or cream, like the brand listed below, and leave our cardamon and black pepper.
Ingredients:
Iced Golden Milk Latte
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of coconut milk or cream (you can thin down with water)
- 1 teaspoon of dried turmeric
- ½ teaspoon dried ginger
- ½ teaspoon black pepper (leave out if strict AIP)
- 1/8 teaspoon dried cardamom (leave out if strict AIP)
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-4 teaspoons honey
- Ice
Directions:
In a small saucepan, heat the coconut milk with the spices until just simmering. Whisk in the honey and vanilla extract and remove from heat. Let steep for 10 minutes. Fill one large glass with ice, or two small glasses with ice. Pour golden milk over the ice. Stir and enjoy.
- 1 cup of coconut milk or cream (you can thin down with water)
- 1 teaspoon of dried turmeric
- ½ teaspoon dried ginger
- ½ teaspoon black pepper (leave out if strict AIP)
- ⅛ teaspoon dried cardamom (leave out if strict AIP)
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-4 teaspoons honey
- Ice
- In a small saucepan, heat the coconut milk with the spices until just simmering. Whisk in the honey and vanilla extract and remove from heat. Let steep for 10 minutes. Fill one large glass with ice, or two small glasses with ice. Pour golden milk over the ice. Stir and enjoy.
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I love the cardamom in this healthy drink! I make a morning smoothie with ginger and turmeric- thinking about adding the cardamom and I forgot about black pepper for the turmeric. Thanks for the reminder. Your drink looks amazing
Hey Judee!
I love how you add spices to your smoothie! What a great idea. I will have to try that. Thanks for sharing!
Kimi, this looks delicious!! – I came to the blog today to print off the recipe for the quinoa pizza crust – one of our faves! Also, I wanted to say, I’ve been so blessed by your thankful and trusting attitude throughout your whole health journey onto AIP. As a family who did a mold remediation and who have struggled through various allergies, we are learning part of our healing component is that a cheerful heart is good medicine! 🙂 May God richly bless you on this journey!
Thanks, Megan! That’s so sweet of you to say! <3
Why do you say heat coconut OIL in the directions, but there is no coconut OIL listed in the ingredients?
That was my bad! It is supposed to read, “coconut milk”. I fixed it now. Hopefully the recipe makes sense now!
So please tell me I m not the only one who hasn t jumped aboard the golden milk train!?! If you re like me and you have no idea what golden milk is, get ready to jump aboard yet another trend, because this one is so delicious.
Hi!
Beautiful blog!! I look forward to reading and using more of your recipes!
I have a question about making the golden milk. Is it absolutely necessary to heat it? I’ve been making this cold and simply shaking it up, vs heating it on the stove. I’m too time crunched and if I have to take that step, I’ll never drink it.
Am I losing any benefits by leaving it the heating now portion?
Thank you!
That’s a great question! There are some studies that had participants heat turmeric. This article talks about whether to heat it or not and has some interesting commentary. http://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/how-heat-affects-turmeric/