10 hot drinks for those who are tired of regular tea and coffee

Simple hot drinks

1. Citrus red tea

Sour-sweet drink with a bright citrus flavor. Good substitute for ordinary tea.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons of tea Hibiscus;
• 1-2 slices of lemon;
• 1-2 orange segments;
• 1-2 slices grapefruit;
• 500 ml of water;
• honey or sugar to taste.

How to cook

Slices of lemon, orange and grapefruit peel and films. Hibiscus tea and fruit put in a saucepan. Pre-boil the water, pour it fruits and tea.

If you want to add sugar, put it to the fruit and tea and stir. Put on a small fire. Bring to boiling, remove from heat, cover. Let sit for 2-3 minutes. Pour into cups and serve. If you add honey, Put it in a bowl just before serving.

Note: do not boil Hibiscus petals very long time - they will become gray. It is best not to put the honey in the tea boiling, and add it to the cooled beverage. So it will retain its flavor and benefit.

2. berry tea

Sour, very fragrant and healthy tea, which is ideal for desserts.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons blueberry;
• 2 tablespoons blueberry;
• 2 tablespoons strawberry;
• 2 tablespoons strawberry;
• 500 ml of water;
• honey or sugar to taste.

How to cook

Mash the berries in a bowl or mortar. Put this mixture in the kettle. Add the sugar. Pour boiling water peretortye berry mix. Close the lid. It is desirable to wrap a towel or wear it teaspoonful woman. Infuse a tea should be at least 10 minutes. Honey is added just before serving.

Note: you can use fresh, frozen or dried berries. If using dried fruit, you need to take two teaspoons instead of tablespoons of each fruit. This tea can also add dried leaves with berry bushes - will even tastier.

3. sea ​​buckthorn tea

An obligatory part of the autumn-winter menu - sea buckthorn flavored tea. He is credited with almost medicinal properties, and it seems to me that he was just delicious.

Ingredients

• 100 g of sea buckthorn;
• 1 teaspoon grated ginger;
• cinnamon stick;
• star anise;
• 500 ml of water;
• honey or sugar to taste.

How to cook

In saucepan, mash with a fork buckthorn, add the ginger and stir. Add sugar and mix again weight. Pour the water and put on fire. When the tea starts boiling, remove from heat, place in a saucepan spices and cover. Tea brewed not less than 7 minutes. Honey is added before serving.

4. Drink of apple peel

This drink is very similar to stewed fruit. We'll have the way to cakes, tarts and any baking.

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons dried apple peel or dried apples;
• ½ cinnamon sticks;
• 500 ml of water;
• honey or sugar to taste.

How to cook

Put dry apple peel and cinnamon stick in a saucepan, cover with cold water, put on fire, cover the pan. Without removing the lid, bring the tea to a boil, remove from heat and allow to stand for 15 minutes. Wrap the pot with a cloth or cover with a tea woman. Before serving, you can add sugar and honey.

Original hot drinks

5. Frothed milk with syrup

This drink is served in many restaurants, coffee shops and bakeries, but it costs quite expensive. Pacifies the inner miser and prepare milk with syrup on their own.

Ingredients

• glass milk;
• a few drops of any syrup (lavender, coffee, chocolate, caramel, fruit).

How to cook

Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat slowly. The drink should be hot, but the milk to boil it is not necessary. When heated up, remove from heat. If there is a shaker, pour milk into it and add the syrup. Then whisk gently and pour into a glass to foam fell.

Milk can be beat with a mixer and pour it into the jar and shake strongly. Foam should be thick and consist of small bubbles.

Note: lavender and other syrups, you can buy in the supermarket. If you do not want to buy, you can cook yourself. Mix a glass of water, a cup of sugar and 2 tablespoons of dried lavender and cook a minute, and then strain.

6. non-alcoholic mulled wine

Many people like mulled wine, but not everyone can afford to enjoy its intoxicating sips. We solve the problem and preparing hot non-alcoholic mulled wine and fragrant.

Ingredients

• 1 liter of cherry juice;
• 3 tablespoons berry syrup;
• 3 tablespoons of honey;
• 3-4 slices of orange;
• 3-4 slices of lemon;
• cinnamon stick;
• 3 cloves bud;
• star anise.

How to cook

Pour the juice and syrup into a pan, put on a small fire. The drink should not boil. As long as it is heated, put the spices. Add the slices of fruit. It would be better if you clean them from external film to only the flesh fell into the mulled wine. Warm drink with spices. When he is hot and fragrant, remove from heat. Before serving, add the honey mulled wine.

Fictional hot drinks

Hot drinks are perfectly combined with a pleasant evening in the company of a book. Even steeper if the drink as if descended from the pages of a favorite fantasy or fairy tales.

7. Butterbeer from the "Harry Potter"

Butterbeer recipe very much. Authentic embodiment necessarily includes ales and butter. To be honest, I imagined Butterbeer is not intoxicating, and sweet, full-bodied and slightly intoxicating. Since the "Harry Potter" - a novel of British writer, the butterbeer would cost to cook English food traditions, but we proceed differently.

Ingredients

• 1 liter of milk;
• 500 g of vanilla ice cream;
• 5 tablespoons of caramel sauce;
• 75 g of dark rum.

How to cook

Heat the milk in a pan, but do not boil. Remove from heat, place in hot milk ice cream and stir. When the ice cream has melted, place the pan on a very small fire and stir gently. When the mixture becomes slightly hot, pour it into a blender, add the caramel sauce and rum. Beat until a dense foam of fine bubbles. Pour into a cup with thick walls. Can decorate sprinkles or chocolate.

Note: caramel sauce can replace boiled condensed milk. If you do not have a blender, whisk whisk all. It is advisable not to use low-fat milk or ice cream of poor quality. A mixture of such products is likely to exfoliate during heating.

8. Grog from "Game of Thrones"

Cersei is clearly not the tea sipped from his glass.

Ingredients

• 50 ml of wine;
• 70 ml dark rum;
• 50 ml of water;
• 2 teaspoons of sugar or honey;
• nutmeg on the tip of a knife.

How to cook

The pot add water and pour sugar. Put on a little fire, heat. When the sugar has dissolved, pour into a saucepan rum and wine, mix well. Add the nutmeg, remove from heat and pour into a large glass.

Chocolate hot drinks

9. White hot chocolate with pumpkin

Alternative podnadoevshy his pumpkin latte.

Ingredients

• ½ liter of milk;
• 200 g of pumpkin puree;
• 100 g of the white chocolate;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
• ground cinnamon pinch;
• ground ginger pinch;
• nutmeg on the tip of a knife.

How to cook

In a thick saucepan, combine the milk, pumpkin puree and spices. Put on a small fire, but do not let boil. When the mixture becomes hot, remove the saucepan from the heat. Break the white chocolate into small pieces and add to the milk. Stir until chocolate is dissolved.

Note: pumpkin puree to make very simple: bake slices pumpkin in the oven and whip into a smoothie in a blender. Ready to drink can be decorated with chocolate or caramel sauce. The taste of this hot drink is possible to emphasize a pinch of salt added to the cup.

10. Acute hot chocolate

It seems the most extravagant and sophisticated drink in this list.

Ingredients

• 300 ml of milk;
• 100 g of dark chocolate;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
• cinnamon stick;
• chilli;
• 1 tablespoon brandy;
• sugar to taste.

How to cook

In a water bath melt the chocolate. In a separate pot, heat the milk (not boiling), add sugar, cinnamon, chili. If you like very spicy food, faults chili and crumble into the pot, not forgetting the seeds. Warm milk with spices. Remove from heat and pour through a sieve into a container with chocolate. Add the brandy and sugar to taste. Stir, hold 10-15 minutes in a water bath. Serve in small cups.

Enjoy your meal!