Lemon, Honey, Turmeric Immunity Cookies

Sweet, chewy and anti-inflammatory. Make in abundance so you can share the warm-hearted wintery wellness.

These cookies had such a satisfying mouth-feel, they were a joy to munch on and you can feel super good about sharing them and their healing properties with those you love! You are getting an excellent dose of zinc from the oats and butter whilst the honey, lemon and turmeric are delivering anti-oxidant and anti-bacterial goodness to stave off or sooth winter ails.

This is part 4 of the Winter Wellness Series. Shout out to the awesome client who supplied the honey featuring in this recipe. Appreciate you!

Ingredients for 20, as mentioned, they are to be shared with neighbours, friends, work colleagues, family members and hungry partners:

• 1 cup of steel cut oats (pre-soaked).
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup honey (the darker, the more medicinal its properties are).
• 80g salted butter (grass fed is ideal)
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup maca powder (optional)
• rind of 2 lemons
• 1tbsp turmeric
• 1tbsp cinnamon
• pinch of salt

Method:

1. Tip 1 cup of steel cut oats into your mixing bowl with 1 cup of freshly boiled water. Allow to soak 1-2 hours and then drain the excess liquid not soaked up by the oats. Add the rolled oats to this once steel cut oats have bee soaked through. Now is a good time to get your oven preheating to 180 degrees Celsius , fan forced.
2. In a separate pot, heat the butter through on a low heat, add honey, spices and salt. With a grater, microplane or similar, grate the rind of the lemon into this mixture.
3. In a seperate cup, beat your eggs and then add to the rest of the ingredients. Stir all the mixture to combine.
4. Next you want to scoop out into small cookie sized portions on a baking tray. Then pop the tray into the fridge an hour or two (this isnt a necessary step if you are super impatient but it stops the cookies spreading into each other.
5. Bake for 8 minutes-ish minutes on 180 fan forced (depending how chewy, crispy or soft you like them, longer will entail a crispier cookie).