Give your fall recipe routine a gut-healthy glow-up with Lifeway in these five golden recipes that are sure to bring a touch of warmth and comfort to your days and nights. “Golden” recipes are made with turmeric, an anti-inflammatory spice well-known to many. Aside from tasting delicious and offering a pop of beautiful orange color to whatever you use it in, turmeric brings multitudes of benefits for digestion, skin, joint, and brain health support. It pairs beautifully with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, black pepper, and other warming spices like we’ve use here in these five recipes all made with the benefits of Lifeway Kefir and Farmer Cheese.
How Lifeway Kefir Keeps Your Gut Health Golden Around the Clock
Lifeway Kefir’s offers the best probiotics in a live and active form your gut benefits from most, along with high-quality protein to keep your body powered up and ready to take on whatever the day brings. It’s perfect to use in all your fall recipes to add a touch of wholesome goodness whether you make a smoothie, breakfast dish, healthy snack, savory meal, or dessert. In these five recipes below, you’ll see how Lifeway Kefir makes it easy to get a dose of golden goodness inspired by autumn with the benefits of turmeric.
Because when you choose Lifeway, you’re choosing the best, and you can be sure your gut health is gonna be golden—because that’s we believe that’s how it’s done.
Add a touch of golden color and a powerful dose of protein with Lifeway in these Golden Milk Waffles. These soft, yet perfectly crisp, waffles offer a touch of seasonal flair packed with real food ingredients. Our whole milk plain kefir is the star of the show in this recipe, as it acts as the perfect stand-in to buttermilk offering more nutritional benefits, plus the probiotics help tenderize the batter and make the waffles easier to digest versus store-bought varieties. Grab your waffle iron and this recipe here!
2. Golden Turmeric Kefir Banana Bread
Fill your kitchen with the aroma of fresh baked banana bread made even better with turmeric, Lifeway Kefir, and Farmer Cheese. This golden banana bread is packed with wholesome ingredients to help support healthy digestion, skin, and more—with nothing artificial. It’s every bit worth the effort of firing up the oven and waiting for it to bake, trust us. Get the recipe here!
3. Pumpkin Spice Golden Milk Smoothie
Sweet, spice, and a touch of everything nice is what you get when you add Lifeway Kefir to all your favorite pumpkin spice smoothies. Our Pumpkin Spice Golden Milk Smoothie is a chilled version of popular beverage made better with Lifeway Kefir and turmeric. It’s naturally sweet from real fruit and offers the soothing comfort of warm fall spices without being overpowering. Sip on it when you need a few moments to relax or while enjoying a touch of fall-flavored goodness any time of the year. Get this recipe here.
4. Golden Milk Cookie Dough Bites
Take a bite of better with our Golden Milk Cookie Dough Bites. Dessert with benefits is now yours for the taking thanks to Lifeway Kefir being used in the dough along with fiber-rich almond flour and coconut flour. Pumpkin adds the fall flavor you know and love, while chocolate chips add the perfect touch of bittersweet richness, and a touch of sea salt keeps things lively and balances the sweetness of the ingredients together perfectly. Plus, if you’re looking to add more protein to your day, we boosted this recipe with a full scoop of vanilla protein to keep you fueled up while you indulge.
Blend it, pour it, then enjoy every spoonful of this Golden Milk Bowl that beats any boring bowl of sugary cereal. Here, we’ve powered up our Golden Milk Bowl with Lifeway Kefir and Farmer Cheese for two powerful, healthy, easy-to-digest sources of protein that are made even better with billions of live and active cultures in this bowl. Flaxseed meal boosts this bowl with fiber, while bananas and pineapple add natural vitamin C, additional fiber, plus enzymes that aid in digestion and B vitamins that chill you out and keep your energy levels steady. Top it with some blueberries, walnuts, coconut, or a touch of low-sugar granola, and you’ve got the perfect smoothie bowl recipe for fall.
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