Letting food by thy medicine never tasted so good! Golden Sweet Potato & Coconut Macaroons are loaded with one of nature’s best anti-inflammatories, turmeric, and are made from other incredibly nourishing real food ingredients! These golden beauties are as easy on the taste buds as they are on the eyes!

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If I had to pick a favorite spice, it would probably be turmeric. It’s a truly magical ingredient that goes beyond just how it tastes. Beautiful to look at with it’s rich and stunning golden color and delicious to eat with it’s warm earthy flavor, turmeric is an ancient healing root that has been used for its anti-inflammatory properties for thousands of years. It is a spice that many naturalists and health gurus advocate for people to have more of in their diet (including me!). These Golden Sweet Potato & Coconut Macaroons are an awesome way to get this magical spice into your family’s bodies!

At least, I know I certainly want it in my crew’s bodies! So I sneak it in wherever I can. A little in the morning smoothie. A sprinkle in the rice at dinner. And you definitely need to try my Turmeric Roasted Carrots out!  If I can add turmeric to a dish, you better believe I am going to!

However, there is one little thing about turmeric that is important but that so many people either don’t know or often forget: turmeric needs be combined with a hint of black pepper to help it absorb into your lovely body!

I’ve read up on exactly WHY (and you can to here) and I totally get that its important. Buuuuttttttt, that doesn’t stop me from forgetting to make sure I add a little black pepper into all of my turmeric rich dishes. Oops.

So, I tend to use my stash of Further Food’s Daily Turmeric Tonic when making a golden dish (like this one)! It already has the turmeric and black pepper mixed in perfect harmony…plus a boatload of other adaptogens and super-foods (like cardamom, ginger root, boswellia serrata (another great natural anti-inflammatory) and cinnamon). I always keep the Daily Turmeric Tonic on hand for easy golden milk fixes at night and it’s the only golden milk powder on the market that is completely sugar-free and zero funky fillers!

Are you ready to get your body full of anti-inflammatory goodness in the most delicious of ways? Yeah, I thought so! Now lets go make some Golden Sweet Potato & Coconut Macaroons!

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Golden Sweet Potato & Coconut Macaroons

by Taesha Butler April-10-2018

Letting food by thy’ medicine never tasted so good! Golden Sweet Potato & Coconut Macaroons are loaded with one of nature’s best anti-inflammatories, turmeric, and are made from other incredibly nourishing real food ingredients! These golden beauties are as easy on the tastebuds as they are on the eyes!

Ingredients

• 3 cups shredded coconut
• 1/3 cup baked and mashed sweet potato
• 3/4 teaspoon Daily Turmeric Tonic
• 3 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch of sea salt
• 1/2 cup high quality chocolate chips
• 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325℉ and line a large baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Set aside.Combine shredded coconut, sweet potato, Daily Turmeric Tonic, in a high-speed blender or food processor. Process on high speed, scraping down the sides as needed. Continue blending and scraping down the sides until mixture is very fine.Add honey/maple syrup, egg, vanilla and sea salt to the coconut/turmeric mixture. Process again until everything is well combined.Using a tablespoon or small cookie scoop, portion out mixture and firmly pack it into a ball with your hands. Arrange on the lined baking sheet.Bake 20-25 minutes or until dry to the touch.Remove the macaroons from the oven and allow them to slightly cool while you make the chocolate drizzle.Combine chocolate and coconut oil in a double boiler and melt over medium heat, stirring frequently to prevent burning. Alternatively, you can melt the chocolate in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between heating cycles.Use spoon to drizzle chocolate over the top of each macaroon. Chill in refrigerator or freezer to allow chocolate to set for about 10 minutes.Remove from baking sheet and remove access chocolate (if desired). Store in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to a week!

Details

Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 35 mins Total time: 40 mins Yield: 18 macaroons