Today I'm going to show you how to make turmeric tea. This is perfect for the up and coming flu and cold season. Hopefully it will help you avoid that. This will really help to boost your immune system so that you can ward off all those germs and stay healthy. I'm Rock and Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after this. Before we get started, go ahead and click that subscribe button and give me a like if you enjoy the video. Now this recipe is very similar to my very popular golden milk recipe which is different than this in that that one has some milk alternative to it. This is much lighter just like a regular tea and I think you'll love it. Alright so we're going to start with some water. We're going to place five cups of water into a saucepan. And then I'm going to place the water on the stove and bring it to just a boil. And while I'm doing that we're going to chop up the rest of our ingredients. We're going to get them ready. We're going to start with our turmeric root. You can find this at Whole Foods, I know they carry it. And if you can't find it you can always use ground turmeric. It's not quite as good I don't think but use what you have. Now I like using the fresh because it's just better. You can either slice it up or you can grate it. I like to grate it, I just leave the skin on it and we just grate it up. And you're going to grate about two inches long of it. Another tip you can try with the turmeric is to freeze this first and then grate it. And it keeps it from staining as much because it's just frozen. It tends to work pretty well. Okay so next is our ginger. Instead of grating this I'm going to go ahead and show you how I would slice it up. If you wanted to do the slicing method you just want to cut this very thin. So if you wanted to slice up the turmeric you could do that as well. You're going to use about an inch or so of the ginger. Our next ingredient that's going to go into the pot is some lemon. Now I'm using an organic lemon here and you want to peel it. I like to use just a potato peeler because it peels it very nice and thin and you don't want to get too much into the white. And you see how this is mostly just the peel itself and not much of the white at all. So that's what you want. You get the nice oils from this. It just adds a really nice flavor. It looks pretty good. So we're going to put all that in our pot. And then we're going to juice our lemon as well. So I'll have that ready. I'll cut it in half. So now we're going to take this over and place these ingredients into the pot of water when it's ready. Okay so here's our water. It's almost to a boil. You don't want a boiled turmeric. It isn't good for all the good properties and it's almost ready to boil. I'm going to toss it all in. Not with the turmeric, the ginger and the lemon peel. I'm going to toss in some cinnamon. In goes a few cracks of pepper. You can add as much of this as you like. It's important to have the pepper in there that helps with the absorption of the curcumin that's in the turmeric. That really helps make it absorbable and usable in your body. Now like I said, we're not going to boil this. We're just going to bring it to a simmer and we're going to let this simmer for 10 minutes. So I'm going to turn my temperature to low and set the timer. After 10 minutes of simmering, the tea is done and I'm going to carefully, hopefully, pour it into my strainer here into a larger glass because you want to strain out all of the turmeric bits and pieces. Remember now, this stuff does stain. You just want to strain it out. You can see I have paper towels laid down here because I want to protect my counters and whatnot. You're going to take your lemon, the one we had peeled, right? And we're going to squeeze that fresh lemon juice right into the tea. It gives it a nice bright flavor. Now this tea will last you for about three days. I think about three days worth and I store it in the mason jar here and in the fridge and it's great. It's easy and convenient once you've made it. And then when I go to serve it up, I pour it into a cup. Now you want to add a little bit of fat to this that also helps with the absorption of the turmeric along with that pepper. So you can use any kind of fat you want. You can use butter. You can use ghee. You can use, I'm using coconut oil. And you want about, you know, maybe just almost a teaspoon into one cup of tea. And that will quickly dissolve right into that because the tea is still hot. I add the coconut oil each time I pour a cup. I don't put it in the whole batch. Just because the coconut oil solidifies, I like to just do it individually when I heat up another cup. I just add a teaspoon of coconut oil to it and I add some honey. And that's it. So I'll actually use raw honey. So you can add as much of this as you want. I'll just place that in there and there's our cup of turmeric tea, our immune boosting tea that's going to keep you healthy. Alright, here we go. Let's do a taste. I love that flavor. That is really delicious. It's got that nice brightness from the lemon. You know, you can taste the turmeric a little bit. It's not that big of a deal. The cinnamon. I could even go for a little more cinnamon. I think a little bit more might be nice. So thanks for watching everybody. I hope you enjoyed the video. Please subscribe to my channel. Give me a thumbs up and of course, leave me a comment. Let me know if you're going to try this. And if you want to try the golden milk, I'll leave a link for you up here and down below in the description. And we'll see you next time. Take care. Be healthy.