Drinks

Honey Lemon Drink

Name: Honey Lemon Drink
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 mug
Ingredients: 250ml hot water (not boiling — around 45°C, comfortable to touch); 1 tablespoon raw desert honey; Juice of half a lemon (about 15ml); Optional: 1cm fresh ginger, grated

Warm water, lemon juice, and raw honey. Simple, effective, and actually tastes good. The one drink worth making every morning.

Prep

3 min

Makes

1 mug

Difficulty

Easy

Ingredients

250ml hot water (not boiling — around 45°C, comfortable to touch)
1 tablespoon raw desert honey
Juice of half a lemon (about 15ml)
Optional: 1cm fresh ginger, grated

Method

1
Boil your kettle. Let it sit for 2–3 minutes — you want the water around 45°C, not 100°C. If you can hold your hand near the steam comfortably, it's close enough.
2
Squeeze the lemon juice into your mug.
3
Add the grated ginger if you're using it.
4
Pour in the water.
5
Add the honey and stir until dissolved. It dissolves faster in warm water than it looks like it will.
6
Drink it while it's still warm.

Notes

The temperature step isn't optional if you care about getting something from the raw honey. Boiling water kills the enzymes — same process as commercial pasteurisation, just done in your mug.
Use more honey if you want it sweeter. Raw honey is more intense than processed honey so most people use less than they expect to.
For a cold version: make it hot first, then let it cool over ice. Cold water doesn't dissolve honey well.

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