Make Your Heart “Beet” With This Limited-Time Drink (Recipe Included!)

Available at our Tea House in February only – or make at home!

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Our Heartbeet Hot Chocolate combines heart-healthy beet juice with chocolate and spices to warm your heart from the inside out. While it’s only available at Mandala Tea House for the month of February only, you can make it at home with the following recipe:

Ingredients

¾ cup milk of your choice (we prefer our house-made almond milk!)
1 ½ oz chocolate sauce (try making your own, like we do at Mandala Tea House)
1 oz beet juice
⅛ tsp cloves
⅛ tsp cardamom
¼ tsp orange extract

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a milk frothing pitcher.
Steam until hot chocolate has reached desired temperature, and enjoy!

Notes

For an unsweetened version, add 2 tbsp cacao powder instead of the chocolate sauce.
If you do not have a milk frother, combine all ingredients in a small saucepan and gently heat on a stovetop.

Add a shot of espresso to turn your Heartbeet Hot Chocolate into a Heartbeet Mocha!

Mandala Tea House

The Mandala Tea House offers organic teas, smoothies, elixirs, coffee, and treats made with the highest quality ingredients to support your potential for complete health. We prepare fresh nut milk, fruits, and vegetables daily, and almost everything we sell over our counter is made by hand. You will find only whole food ingredients in our almond milk, infused honeys, health elixirs, acai bowls, and delicious innovative smoothies. Our cleanses, ayurvedic services, culinary workshops, and our blog provides you a clear path toward optimum health, helping you to learn what is best to feed your very unique body, eat mindfully, and thoroughly enjoy your life. Move from Savasana to the Mandala to reflect, replenish, and rejuvenate.

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