Tastier meals with real Manuka honey
It’s delicious in marinades, smoothies, porridge and desserts
LOVE the taste of honey? There are so many ways to enjoy it, especially genuine Manuka honey from New Zealand.
Whether it’s supercharging your breakfast, stirred into a hot drink or simply slurped off the spoon daily, 90 per cent of the honey lovers surveyed say they take it as part of their wellness routine.
Some dollop it on toast every morning, while others swirl it into their porridge or drizzle it on their vegetables.
This delicious honey is only made by bees who collect nectar from the Manuka bush, a wild shrub that grows widely across
New Zealand but flowers for only a few weeks a year.
Real Manuka honey has laboratory validated properties other types of honey do not display, thanks to the inclusion of a naturally occurring compound called Methylglyoxal, or MGO for short.
What’s more, Manuka honey tastes amazing! It has a stronger, deeper, earthier taste than the runny honey you might buy at the supermarket. It’s also a little less sweet, much thicker, and can have a slight woody bitterness.
Here are just a few of the many ways to put your delicious Manuka honey to good use for healthy eating:
■ USE as a marinade. Add it to soy sauce, garlic, vinegar and crushed red pepper before mixing in your raw chicken and letting it sit in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Veggies? Just drizzle them in a little Manuka honey, mustard and oil, then roast for an hour on a low heat.
■ AT breakfast, blend it into a strawberry and banana smoothie, add it to porridge or swirl it into plain yoghurt with a handful of fruit and sprinkling of chopped pecans. Or Manuka honey on granary toast is a classic that is hard to beat.
■ MIX it into a fibre-rich oat and nut crumble to top a fruit stew. Add it to flapjacks for a subtle honey flavour. Spoon Manuka honey into the icing of a cake for a sticky, drizzly showstopper, or it goes really well mixed in with fruit on the top.