Honey Lemon Drink
Warm water, lemon juice, and raw honey. Simple, and it 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.