NicolaB70 said:
Hi. Does anybody know of any malted drinks, ie ovaltine, horlicks, that are suitable for diabetics? Now it's getting colder, it's nice to have a cup now and then to warm through but what I already have is loaded with sugar so thought it's best to avoid it.
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Sorry I dont know of any malted low carb drinks, the only low carb drink I know of is Cadbury Fair Trade Highlights Dark Instant, but thats full of nasty stuff, read the ingredients list, make up your own mind whether you want to swallow this.
Here are my fav winter drink recipes, you can swap cream for almond milk or coconut milk or go half cream/half water.
Orange cocoa
2 servings:
2 cups cream
2 cups water
2 level tablespoons cocoa powder
2 level tablespoons sweetener
Zest of one large orange, finely grated
Put the cocoa powder, sweetener, orange zest and 1 cup cream in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and let the mixture simmer slightly for 2-3 minutes, stirring a few times. Add the remaining cream and water, heat through. You can sieve out the orange zest if you prefer otherwise it will just settle at the bottom of the cup.
http://lenabeatrice.net/lenabeatrice/bo ... lsinkakao/
Egg nog
Ingredients:
1 egg yolk
sweetener equiv to 2 tbsp of sugar
2 cups cream
3 cl of rum, brandy, calvados or whiskey
cinnamon/nutmeg - optional
1. Whisk sweetener and eggs until fluffy.
2.Heat the cream in a saucepan or in the microwave and pour it while whisking into the egg. Add any spirits.
http://lenabeatrice.net/lavkarbomat/jul/eggnog/
Christmas Coffee
In a mug - mix 1 tsp cocoa powder with a tbsp sweetener, add a little hot water stir to a smooth paste, top up with coffee, whip cream until stiff, add a little sweetener and cinnamon, place a huge dollop on top of your coffee, dont stir it in, sit back, relax and sip coffee through the whipped cream topping.
http://lenabeatrice.net/lavkarbomat/diverse/julekaffe/
Irish Coffee
Ingredients:
4 cl whiskey
2 or more, spoons of Splenda or sweetener of your choice
1 to 1.5 cups of strong coffee (espresso)
about 1 cup double cream
Warm a large stemmed drinking glass, or glasss mug.
Pour in the whiskey and sweetener
Pour in the coffee and stir until sweetener is dissolved.
Slowly fill the glass up to the edge with the cream so that the cream floats on top of the coffee. One trick to avoid the cream mixing with the coffee is to add the cream slowly pouring it over the back of a spoon.
Do not stir, the Coffee / whiskey mixture should be drunk through the cream.
Hot chocolate with whipped cream
Ingredients:
3-4 cups single cream or coconut milk
10-15g dark chocolate (at least 70% cacao)
whipped cream
vanilla essence/extract
sweetener
Break the chocolate into a large cup. Pour over a little of the hot cream/coconut milk and stir until chocolate is melted. Fill with remaining cream/coconut milk and top with whipped cream. How decadent is that?
http://www.lchfrecept.com/ShowRecepy.aspx?ID=15
Hot chocolate cream and cocoa
Ingredients:
2 tsp (10 g) cocoa powder
1 cup whipping cream, half of it whipped
1 / 2 cup hot water
few drops of orange flavouring (Dr Oetkers is superb for this)
sweetener
Mix the cocoa in a mug with a bit of cold cream and sweetener to a smooth paste. Heat up the water and the UNBEATEN cream, pour into mug, add orange flavouring, top with whipped cream.
Lean back in your favourite armchair, sip slowly, have a few nuts to nibble with it, you wont feel hungry for quite a while either!
coconut ginger tea
freshly grate ginger, add to half a mug of boiling water, cover and let it steep for around 10 minutes, strain, add coconut milk, heat for approx 1 minute in the microwave, add sweetener of your choice Its less hassle if you have one of those tea infusion eggs. If you prefer you can make this with cream instead of coconut milk.
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Hot chocolate
In a large mug mix a spoon of good quality cocoa powder with Splenda with hot water to a paste, fill with single cream to the top, microwave for about 1/1/2 minutes, careful now, stir it, make sure its not too hot.
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German Christmas punch - alcohol free:
http://lchf.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1481 - it is well worth making the bit of effort
1 Liter boiling water
8 teabags, use fruity blends
3 drops of orange flavouring (eg
http://www.oetker.co.uk/oetker_uk/our_p ... tract.html)
Sweetener of your choice
Punch spice mixture:
3 cloves
1/2 tsp cardamom-pods
5-7 allspice kernels
1 star anise
(small piece of cinnamon bark)
Crush roughly using a mortar and pestle, then fill into a tea infusion egg.
Place all ingredients into a big pot and let it steep for a good 10 minutes.
Its wonderfully Christmassy and soothing, you can add a good splash of vodka or other spirits or replace the water with wine to give it a bit more oomph
