Try the healthy Koru hot chocolate.

It’s delicious, contains anti-inflammatory spices, and contains lots of additional nutrients, fibre, and antioxidants that wouldn’t feature in a regular hot chocolate.

Each cup is thick, decadent, and very filling, making for a warming treat on a cold day.

One of the great things about this recipe is that you can do a good amount of mix and match, creating slightly different flavours to meet your taste buds needs and varying the amount of sweetness to taste.

Best of all, the kids won’t know that it doesn’t contain any refined sugar. You may want to adapt the flavours a little for them too.

You can mix out any of the spices out for different ones, such as cardamon, star anise, all spice or a dash of chilli, just interchange according to your tastebuds.

Hot Chocolate Ingredients

• 1 cup of milk (or preferred milk alternative)
• 5 dates
• 1-2 tablespoons of raw cacao (different brands tend to be a little more bitter, so add to taste).
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric
• ¼ teaspoon dried or ground ginger
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla powder (can also use vanilla essence)
• Small dash of maple syrup (optional)

Method

I use my thermomix, but you could just as easily use a good blender and heat on a stove or in a microwave.

Soak dates in hot water for 10 mins or longer (the longer you soak them the smaller they will blitz down later). Drain the water and add all ingredients into the thermomix at 70 degrees for 2 mins, for the first 20 seconds, slowly build the speed up to speed 10, then slowly drop down to speed 4.

Ta da, your hot chocolate is ready.

It would be fantastic to hear from you about what you think about our healthy hot chocolate alternative and especially if you do a stovetop version.