diff --git a/src/asyncMiddleware/README.md b/src/asyncMiddleware/README.md
index 3e150e3..af7313f 100644
--- a/src/asyncMiddleware/README.md
+++ b/src/asyncMiddleware/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 This add-on wraps an asynchronously-initialised middleware to allow it to be synchronously attached to a Koa application.
 This is useful if you want to keep the initialisation of your Koa application synchronous for simplicity and interoperability with tooling like [Koa Cluster],
-but you need to perform asynchronous work like [GraphQL schema introspection] in order to build one of the middleware in your chain.
+but you need to perform asynchronous work like [GraphQL schema introspection] in order to build one of the middleware in your chain. You can optionally set a TTL so the inner middleware can be reinitialised when the cache has expired.
 
 [koa cluster]: https://github.com/koajs/cluster
 [graphql schema introspection]: https://graphql.org/learn/introspection/
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const initGraphMiddleware: = async () => {
   return new GraphServer(schema).getMiddleware();
 };
 
-const graphMiddleware = AsyncMiddleware.lazyLoad(initGraphMiddleware);
+const graphMiddleware = AsyncMiddleware.lazyLoad(initGraphMiddleware, 120000);
 
 app.use(graphMiddleware);
 ```
diff --git a/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.test.ts b/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.test.ts
index 59080e6..d93f46c 100644
--- a/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.test.ts
+++ b/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.test.ts
@@ -56,4 +56,42 @@ describe('asyncMiddleware', () => {
 
     expect(createInnerMiddleware).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
   });
+
+  it('should cache a new inner middleware on expired TTL', async () => {
+    const ctx: Koa.Context = makeCtx();
+    const ttl = 60_000;
+
+    const currentTime = jest.spyOn(Date, 'now');
+
+    const innerMiddleware = jest
+      .fn()
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => (ctx.status = 201))
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => (ctx.status = 202))
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => (ctx.status = 203));
+    const init = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(innerMiddleware);
+    const middleware = lazyLoad(init, ttl);
+
+    currentTime.mockReturnValue(0);
+
+    await expect(middleware(ctx, next)).resolves.toBe(201);
+    expect(ctx.status).toBe(201);
+
+    expect(init).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(innerMiddleware).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    currentTime.mockReturnValue(1000);
+
+    await expect(middleware(ctx, next)).resolves.toBe(202);
+    expect(ctx.status).toBe(202);
+
+    expect(init).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(innerMiddleware).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+
+    currentTime.mockReturnValue(80_000);
+    await expect(middleware(ctx, next)).resolves.toBe(203);
+    expect(ctx.status).toBe(203);
+
+    expect(init).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(innerMiddleware).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.ts b/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.ts
index cc3a448..f8487d9 100644
--- a/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.ts
+++ b/src/asyncMiddleware/asyncMiddleware.ts
@@ -7,17 +7,23 @@ import { Middleware } from 'koa';
  * This lazy loads the function supplied through the `init` parameter at time of
  * request. If initialisation fails, the error is thrown up the chain for
  * in-flight requests, and initialisation is retried on the next request.
+ * If `ttl` is set, the middleware is re-initialised when cache expires.
  *
  * @param init  - Function to asynchronously initialise a middleware
+ * @param ttl - Time in ms
  */
 export const lazyLoad = <State, Context>(
   init: () => Promise<Middleware<State, Context>>,
+  ttl?: number,
 ): Middleware<State, Context> => {
   let cache: Promise<Middleware<State, Context>> | undefined;
+  let cacheTimestamp: number;
 
   const initOrInvalidate = async () => {
     try {
-      return await init();
+      const cacheInit = await init();
+      cacheTimestamp = Date.now();
+      return cacheInit;
     } catch (err) {
       cache = undefined;
 
@@ -26,7 +32,15 @@ export const lazyLoad = <State, Context>(
     }
   };
 
+  const validateCache = () =>
+    typeof cache === 'undefined' ||
+    typeof cacheTimestamp === 'undefined' ||
+    typeof ttl === 'undefined' ||
+    Date.now() - cacheTimestamp < ttl ||
+    (cache = undefined);
+
   return async (ctx, next) => {
+    validateCache();
     const middleware = await (cache ?? (cache = initOrInvalidate()));
 
     return middleware(ctx, next) as unknown;