Turmeric Milk / Manjal Paal, a delicious milk drink flavored with turmeric powder. In recent times, it's also called "Golden Milk". Interesting name, right ?

It's one of the common night time drinks during winter months when we grew up.  During winter months, as flu season is high, in order to avoid catching the cold, the elders in the family used to make this milk. 

To be honest, this doesn't need a recipe at all :-) . After boiling the milk, turmeric powder and  some sweetener is added to the milk and it's served warm. It's as simple as that. In addition to the turmeric powder , you can also add  a pinch of pepper powder too.This drink is really soothing to your throat and indeed it's delicious.

As i'm back from a 3 month trip to India a couple of days back, the weather here in Canada seems more harsh than usual hence i'm making this turmeric milk at night time to keep me warm and cozy.  That's the reason for this post here now :-)

Before moving on to the recipe, let's check out some FAQs.

What is  Panam Kalkandu ?

Panam Kalkandu is a type of sugar from the palm tree, it helps to soothe the throat. So usually we add this as a sweetener in Turmeric milk. But you can use regular sugar or honey too.

What are the other ingredients that can added in the Turmeric Milk?

In addition to the turmeric powder, you can add the pepper powder too especially when you have cold. It really helps to reduce the symptoms. 

Turmeric Milk | Golden Milk | Manjal Paal

Preparation Time : 0 mins | Cooking Time : 5 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Drink | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Turmeric Milk, Golden Milk, Manjal Paal, Healthy Drink Turmeric Milk / Manjal Paal, a delicious milk drink flavored with turmeric powder.

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Ingredients

Milk - 1 cup 

Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp

*Panam Kalkandu - to taste

*Panam kalkandu is a type of sugar from the palm tree, it helps to soothe the throat.

Procedure

First add the milk in a sauce pan and bring into boil. 

Switch off the flame and then add the the turmeric powder and the panam kalkandu(Got the panam kalkandu from the srilankan store and it's called as "kallakaram" there! ). Instead of panam kalkandu, you can use any other sweetener like sugar, honey etc.

That's it, Delicious Turmeric Milk/ Manjal Paal is ready.

Related : How to make Panakam/ Panakaram

Notes: 

• Don't add more turmeric powder than the mentioned quantity, it doesn't taste good.
• Like i said, you can add any other sweetener you like or even without any sweetener also you can make this.
• I highly recommend to have this as warm.