Warming non-alcoholic drinks for winter: with chocolate, cocoa, coffee, fruits, pumpkin, teas - black, green and hibiscus, medicinal herbs

Why are soft drinks called warming drinks, and how are they useful?

Why are some drinks called warming drinks and others not? What is the secret of such a drink? To make the drink warm, various spices are added to it.

A warming non-alcoholic drink , to which spicy spices are added, not only makes us happy in winter, but has the following beneficial properties :

Activate blood circulation
Colds go away faster with them
Stomach and intestines work better
Remove swelling and flatulence
Strengthen immunity

Grog / Finland / Sweden

English Grog

Grog (or hot wine) is a favorite drink of sailors. It is a traditional Christmas delicacy in Sweden and Finland. There are two versions of grog: non-alcoholic and, accordingly, with the addition of alcohol. Both drinks are served with spices - the richer their color and taste, the better. Most often they add cardamom, cinnamon, raisins and almonds, and sometimes cloves and mint. The grog is sweet and thick to the point that sometimes you have to eat it with a spoon.

How to drink a warming soft drink?

For a warming soft drink to be beneficial , you need to know how to drink it:

Coming from the cold, we drink a warming non-alcoholic drink hot, in small sips.
We drink all warming non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks during the day, but you should not drink before bed, otherwise you will be awake
Drinks with added slices of apple, orange, lemon, served with fruit
Dried fruits, jam, fresh or pickled apples, other fruits, and cookies are served with warming drinks.

Chicha Morada / Bolivia

English Chicha Morada

This is one of the most popular drinks in Bolivia. Not only in winter, but at any other time. It is made from pineapple and purple corn with the addition of aromatic spices like cinnamon, cloves and lemon zest. Sometimes I add apples and quince to the drink. Cook everything together over low heat until tender. Then it is filtered and at the very end spices are added to taste. The morada is rich and thick. As a rule, it is served for breakfast. Sometimes, instead of purple corn, they can make it from regular corn - in this case, milk is added instead of water.

How to prepare a warming soft drink with chocolate and cocoa?

Warming non-alcoholic drink - liquid chocolate honey-cinnamon

For the recipe we take:

0.5 l milk
4 tbsp. l. honey
3 tbsp. l. Sahara
100 g solid dark chocolate
0.5 tsp. chopped cinnamon
Vanillin on the tip of a knife

Cooking:

Pour milk into a saucepan, add dry ingredients, heat over heat.
Place chocolate pieces into the heated liquid, boil, stirring until all the chocolate has dissolved.
Remove from heat, pour into cups, decorate with a few marshmallows or whipped cream, and serve the drink hot.

Warming non-alcoholic drink - liquid chocolate
Chocolate-banana cocktail

For a cocktail, let's take:

0.5 l milk
50 g dark chocolate
1 banana
Vanillin and cinnamon on the tip of a knife

Cooking:

Heat the milk on a hot stove.
Add vanillin, cinnamon, broken chocolate to the milk and continue heating.
Cut the banana into pieces and puree it with a blender, transfer it to a saucepan with milk, heat to a boil, stirring.
When the chocolate has dissolved and the mass becomes homogeneous, pour into cups and drink hot.

Drink "Marshmallow Dream"

For the drink, let's take:

2 glasses of water
4 tsp. cocoa
6 tsp. condensed milk
100 g marshmallows

Cooking:

Add condensed milk to boiled cocoa in water and mix.
Immediately pour into mugs, put marshmallows on top, they immediately begin to melt. Enjoying an unusual drink.

Salep / Türkiye

Tour. Salep or Sahlep

Salep is one of the most delicious drinks! He is adored in Egypt and Iran. However, our compatriots most often try salep in Turkey, somewhere on the streets of Istanbul. It is made from crushed orchid bulbs mixed with boiled milk and sugar. I also add starch to thicken and decorate with cinnamon.

How to make a warming soft drink with coffee or coffee drink?

Ginger coffee

For ginger coffee, take:

200 mg water
2 tsp. coffee and honey
0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon and finely chopped fresh ginger root

Prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink:

We brew coffee in water, add honey, cinnamon and ginger to it, and drink it immediately.

Attention. If for some reason (high blood pressure) you don’t drink coffee, you can take a coffee drink, such as chicory, instead of coffee.

Nut toddy

To create this easy version of a hot toddy, mix Frangelico liqueur with hot water, then top with whipped cream or ice cream.

Frangelico is an elite liqueur that is often used in the preparation of hot alcoholic drinks. Very often it is added to desserts to add aroma and exquisite taste. The main feature of the liqueur is its nutty tones, and this is not surprising, because these are the fruits that form the basis of the preparation. To create hot drinks, just add a little liqueur to tea, coffee, original cocktails, and cocoa.

How to make a warming soft drink with fruit?

Non-alcoholic apple cider

For cider, let's take:

2 liters apple juice
1 orange, lemon, pear
0.5 tsp. cinnamon
1 tbsp. l. grated fresh ginger
Ground cloves on the tip of a knife

Cooking:

Squeeze the juice out of the apples and let it heat up.
Cut the orange and lemon into slices, the pear into slices, and dip them in hot apple juice.
Grate the ginger root on a fine grater and add to the juice. Add cinnamon and clove powder here, bring to a boil, cook for about 5 minutes, leave for 1 hour, and drink.

Non-alcoholic apple cider
Mulled wine with wine is now a very popular drink. Let's try to make mulled wine without alcohol.

Non-alcoholic mulled wine

For mulled wine let's take:

3 glasses of grape juice
0.5 glasses of water
2 tbsp. l. thin yellow shavings from the top layer of orange and lemon peel
0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon and cloves
Ground cardamom on the tip of a knife
Half an apple

Prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink:

Mix the juice and water together in a saucepan, add spices, heat over the fire until it boils.
Remove from heat, lower the apple slices, cover with a lid, let the drink sit for 5 minutes, then pour into glasses.

Cranberry punch

For punch, let's take:

500 ml each of orange and apple juice
100 ml cranberry juice
100 g cranberries
Juice from 1 lime, maybe a lemon
A few orange slices
1 tsp. chopped fresh ginger
A few mint leaves
Ground cinnamon on the tip of a knife
Several articles l. honey

Cooking:

We heat the juices together with spices, but do not boil; at the end of heating, add honey, whole cranberries and orange slices.
Remove from heat and pour into glasses. We drink the drink warm.

Mulled wine in Swedish

To prepare mulled wine, prepare:

Orange – 1 pc.
Allspice – 3 peas
Cloves – 5 pcs.
Red wine – 750 ml
Ground cinnamon - half a teaspoon
Honey – 20 g
Raisins – 50 g
Almonds – 50 g

Preparation:

Wash the orange well and dry it with a towel, then cut it into thin circles, removing the seeds as you do so. Place the orange slices in a small container and sprinkle with allspice and cloves.
Pour wine mixed with honey and ground cinnamon into the same bowl. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly, and turn off the heat. Close the pan and put the mulled wine in a warm place for half an hour to infuse.
Sort and wash the raisins well, then dry them on newspaper or paper. Scatter almonds and raisins into thick-walled glasses and pour strained, slightly cooled mulled wine into them. The drink can be decorated with grated chocolate or powdered sugar. In winter, mulled wine perfectly warms you up in the cold and creates a friendly atmosphere in the team.

How to prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink with medicinal herbs?

Sbiten was known back in ancient Rus'. And while the Russians did not know black tea, they prepared sbitni.

Russian sbiten according to the classic recipe

For sbitnen let's take:

1.5 liters of water
500 g honey
1 tbsp. l. chopped herbs (you can take sage, mint, St. John's wort, lemon balm, blackcurrant leaves, oregano)
On the tip of a knife, each of the ground spices: cloves, cinnamon, cardamom

Prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink:

Dissolve honey in warm water, stirring, and leave to brew for 1 day in a warm place.
The next day, heat the water with honey, skim off the foam, and simmer over low heat for 2 hours.
Before finishing cooking (15 minutes before), add herbs and spices to the drink.
Pour the drink through a sieve into another pan. Serve hot in mugs. It goes well with jam, cookies, and buns.

Non-alcoholic Russian sbiten
Honey-ginger sbiten

For sbitnen let's take:

0.5 l water
3 tbsp. l. honey
1 tsp. grated ginger and top layer of lemon peel
Juice from half a lemon
A few mint leaves
On the tip of a knife, ground: cinnamon and cloves

Cooking:

Heat water in a saucepan.
Add lemon juice, spices, honey, mix, let it boil.
Remove the drink from the heat, leave for half an hour, drink strained through a sieve.

Attention. Sbiten can be made fortified, and even more useful if you add 1-2 tbsp into it before boiling. l. dry forest or homemade berries, and cook for about 15 minutes. This can be rose hips, black and red currants, lingonberries, raspberries, cherries and other berries.

Tea with ginger and mint

For tea let's take:

300 ml water
2 tbsp. l. honey
1 tbsp. l. chopped ginger and mint
Zest of 1 lemon
A few slices of lemon

Cooking:

Place lemon zest, mint leaves, lemon slices, grated ginger into 2 mugs, pour boiling water over them, and add honey for sweetness.

Sea buckthorn-orange juice

To prepare fruit juice you will need:

Sea buckthorn – 100-200 g
Orange – 2 pcs.
Sugar – 200 g
Water – 150 ml

Preparation:

Rinse the sea buckthorn berries and drain the water.
Treat the orange peel with boiling water and dry with a paper towel. Grate the orange zest. Pour boiling water over it and cook for 25 minutes over medium heat. Then leave the broth for half an hour in a warm place. Strain the fruit juice through a fine sieve.
Mash the sea buckthorn and peeled orange in a separate bowl using a masher or spoon, thus separating the pulp from the peel and seeds.
Cover the top of the pan with a double layer of gauze and place the orange-sea buckthorn mixture on it. Leave in this state for half an hour so that the juice from the mass has time to drain into the pan, and the peel and seeds remain on the gauze. Squeeze the gauze with your hands to express any remaining juice.
Add the resulting mass to the decoction of orange peels and sugar, mix thoroughly and bring to a boil. Cool and add sea buckthorn and orange juice, then mix thoroughly again.
This fruit drink contains a lot of useful components and will be an excellent source of vitamins in the winter.

How to make a warming soft drink with black tea?

Tea latte

For the drink you need:

2 cups brewed black tea
2 and a half glasses of milk
2 tbsp. l. Sahara
On the tip of a knife, grind each of the following spices: cardamom, cloves and nutmeg
1 tsp. chopped ginger root

Preparing a warming non-alcoholic drink:

We brew not very strong tea. Let it brew for 10-20 minutes.
Pour the tea into a saucepan, add milk, sugar and spices, let it boil, and immediately turn it off.
Pour the hot drink into mugs through a strainer.

Note. If you add plant milk (nut or soy) to your chai latte instead of regular milk, then vegans can also drink this drink.

Non-alcoholic grog

For grog you need:

300 mg strong brewed tea
A third of a glass of cherry and apple juice
On the tip of a knife, ground spices: nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves
1 star anise
1-2 tsp. honey

Cooking:

Mix the brewed tea with juices, bring to a boil, add spices and simmer at a barely noticeable boil for about 10 minutes.
Infuse the drink for 5-10 minutes and drink.

Cambridge Punch

To prepare this punch you need:

Sugar - half glass
Milk – 125 ml
Cognac – 150 ml
Rum – one and a half glasses
Eggs – 2 pcs.
Orange – 1 pc.

Preparation:

Using a mixer or whisk, beat the eggs with half a portion of milk.
Pour the rest of the milk into a saucepan and dissolve the sugar in it. Bring milk to a boil and remove from heat. Cool slightly and pour in the egg-milk mixture in small portions, stirring constantly.
Add cognac and rum to the drink and whisk thoroughly.
Pour the resulting punch into glasses, garnish with orange slices and serve.

This amount of punch is designed for 12 people.

How to make a warming soft drink with green tea?

Tibetan tea "Tenzin"

For Tibetan tea, let's take:

3 tsp. green tea
1 liter of water
3 lemon slices
2 tsp. honey
0.5 tsp. chopped fresh ginger
On the tip of a knife, each of the crushed spices: cardamom, cloves, nutmeg

Prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink:

Pour green tea, spices, finely chopped ginger, lemon, cut into cubes without peel, into the teapot for brewing, and pour boiling water over everything.
Let it sit for 10-15 minutes, add honey, and drink.

Attention. Ginger and spices increase blood pressure, if your blood pressure is normal, drinks with them will not harm you, but if it is elevated, then you should not take them.

Atole / Mexico

Spanish Atole

A traditional Mexican drink served at Christmas. It is prepared from corn puree with the addition of sugar, water, cinnamon, and vanilla. Then add fruit and chocolate as desired. The drink turns out thick, like real porridge. In Mexico, it is consumed for breakfast in cold weather and drunk at Christmas.

How to prepare a warming soft drink with hibiscus tea?

Attention. A soft drink with hibiscus has anti-inflammatory properties.

Hibiscus tea with summer berries

For the drink, let's take:

0.5 l of brewed hibiscus tea
0.5 cups of summer berries from the freezer, these can be strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blackberries, black or red currants
A few dried mint leaves
Honey to taste
For each glass, a few slices of lemon

Prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink:

Pour the stored, slightly thawed berries and mint into the brewed hot tea, mix, pour into mugs.
Add honey and lemon to each mug and drink.

Masala / India

English Masala

This is also tea, but with plenty of spices. One of the favorite drinks in Asia and India in particular. Masala is an explosive mixture of black tea, hot milk, water and spices. The latter include cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, grated ginger, and pepper. In addition, this tea has an extraordinary aroma, which is given to it by nutmeg, vanilla, and anise. This is the incredible amount of spices that an Indian winter drink can boast of.

How to make a warming non-alcoholic pumpkin drink?

Hot pumpkin smoothie

For the smoothie you need:

300 g pumpkin
0.5 l milk
4 tsp. honey
On the tip of a knife, ground spices: cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, nutmeg

Prepare a warming non-alcoholic drink:

We peel the pumpkin, cut it into pieces, boil it, and turn it into puree in a blender.
Add milk and spices to the whipped pumpkin, heat to a boil, turn off the heat, add honey, pour into mugs, and drink.

If you come from the cold and are frozen, one of the warming non-alcoholic drinks listed above will help you quickly warm up.

Sbiten with zhenka

To prepare sbiten you will need:

Honey - one and a half glasses
Sugar – 300 g
Cinnamon – 4 sticks
Cardamom – 8 pcs.
Cloves – 10 g
Ginger root - 3-4 cm
Bay leaf – 2 pcs.

Preparation:

Place honey in a liter of water at a temperature of up to 60 degrees and completely dissolve. Boil for 20 minutes over low heat, then add spices and cook for another 4-5 minutes. Strain.
Heat a clean, dry frying pan and melt the sugar in it for 5 minutes, add half a glass of water and boil. Use the resulting mixture to tint the whipped cream, pouring it in small portions, stirring thoroughly until the desired color is obtained.

Video: 3 warming winter drinks

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