Knowing how to brew tea properly, it will be possible to cook a delicious drink from any raw material, having received a maximum of pleasure from a home tea meal. Simple cooking rules will help improve the characteristics and quality of your favorite drink.
How to brew tea?
Basic knowledge of how to brew tea in a tea pot, and tips for improving the taste of its qualities, will be useful as a beginner hostess, and a cook with experience who will be able to comprehend previously unknown subtleties of cooking a hot beverage.
- The ideal pottery for brewing tea is a porcelain or faience kettle-brewer.
- The container is rinsed with boiling water, warming the bottom and walls, poured.
- Pour a teaspoonful of tea into a warm moist kettle at a rate of 1 teaspoon per cup of ready-made beverage.
- Filtered, bottled or spring water is boiled, allowed to cool to 90 degrees, poured into the kettle about a third of the norm.
- After a minute, add another third of the total liquid.
- Leave the lid closed with a lid and napkin for a minute, then pour the rest of the water and give the drink to infuse another 2-4 minutes.
How to brew tea in a thermos bottle?
Tea in the thermos - the recipe is variable and depends first of all on the type of raw materials used. So, for example, traditional and black tea does not tolerate prolonged infusion and requires consumption or, at least, straining from brewing, in the first 10 minutes after pouring hot water. Using as a brew, rosehip, dried berries, ginger, meadow or field grasses, on the contrary time is needed for maximum disclosure of taste and properties.
- Studying how to brew black tea or green in a thermos, it is important not only to understand the importance of obtaining a tasty drink, but also to preserve its benefits. The thermos is rinsed with water, poured into the tea leaves and poured hot water for 5-7 minutes. After a while, the beverage is filtered and returned to the flask for long-term preservation of heat.
- The thermos is an ideal vessel for brewing dried or fresh dogrose, berries, ginger and a number of field and meadow grasses. As in the case of traditional tea, the flask is initially heated with boiling water, after which the raw materials are poured into it and filled with hot water.
How correctly to make black tea?
To brew the most delicious black tea, first of all you should take care of the quality of dry brewing. No tea ceremony or secrets to improve the taste will not save a product of dubious origin and low quality. In addition, it is important to use filtered or spring water without chlorine, third-party taste and odor.
Ingredients:
- black tea - 2 teaspoons;
- purified water - 0,5 l;
- sugar, honey, jam, lemon - to taste.
Preparation
- Porcelain or porcelain teapot is heated, rinsing for a minute with boiling water or putting the bottom of the container in a bowl of boiling water.
- Pour into a hot, slightly moist container of dry tea leaves.
- The water is boiled, allowed to cool to 90-95 degrees, poured a third into the brewer with tea, cover the container with a lid and cover with a napkin.
- After a minute, add as much hot liquid, leave for a couple of minutes.
- Pour the rest of hot water and proceed to the tea: a ready drink is poured into cups and served with sugar, honey, jam.
How to brew green tea?
The following recommendations will help to understand how to brew green tea correctly. The technology is similar to the preparation of black varieties, but it has its own peculiarities: raw materials can be poured with hot water up to three to four times. Brewing time depends on the desired effect. To get the bracing effect of the drink on the body, you need to pour it on the cups after 1.5 minutes. More intense taste and tonic properties are revealed when infused for 7-10 minutes.
Ingredients:
- green tea - 2 tsp.
- purified water - 0,5 l;
- honey, lemon - to taste.
Preparation
- In the warmed-up brewer, tea leaves are falling asleep.
- The water is boiled, allowed to cool to 80-90 degrees.
- A third of the total norm of hot water is poured into the kettle.
- After a minute, add the same amount of liquid, and the rest is poured before serving.
- Serve green tea with lemon and honey. Sugar when served with a given beverage is less preferable.
How to make ginger tea?
Knowing how to properly brew ginger tea will help to provide yourself and the family with a terrific drink, the characteristics of which not only allow you to get true pleasure from the tea ceremony, but also help to cope with the common cold and many other ailments. The grinded fresh root is simply rubbed and poured for 15 minutes with boiling water, or prepared according to the technology presented below.
Ingredients:
- ginger root - 30 g;
- purified water - 500 ml;
- lemon slices and honey - to taste.
Preparation
- Ginger root is cleaned by removing the dark skin, and then cut into thin plates.
- Fill with hot water and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
- Give the drink a little more to stand under the lid, filter, supplement with lemon slices and sweeten with honey.
- They drink tea with ginger, lemon and honey in small sips.
How to brew and drink willow-tea?
Further information on how to brew willow tea, which is famous for its beneficial effect on the body and numerous useful properties. Excellent taste and unique properties of the healing drink are preserved by repeated pouring of boiling water: it is allowed to use the same leaves up to five times.
Ingredients:
- ivan tea - 30 g;
- purified water - 500 ml;
- honey or jam - to taste.
Preparation
- Ivan-tea is laid in a preheated kettle, poured with boiling water.
- Cover the container with a lid and leave the drink to boil for no less than 10 minutes.
- Serve hot tea with honey or jam.
How to make tea masala?
The following recipe will help you learn how to make tea masala, which is a traditional drink in India, and is popular with gourmets and true connoisseurs of tea throughout the world. The invariable spices added to the drink are the ginger root and cardamom. Other spices: cinnamon, cloves, baden, nutmeg, pepper and other ingredients are added at will and taste and are not mandatory.
Ingredients:
- black tea - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Milk - 0.5 liters;
- water - 0,5 l;
- ginger root - 40 g;
- cardamom green - 2 pods;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- pepper - 2 peas;
- cloves - 4 pcs .;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
- Cardamom, cloves and pepper ground in a mortar.
- Add spices, cinnamon in a mixture of water and milk, cook for 10 minutes.
- Add tea and sugar, cook Indian tea for about 5 minutes, filter and serve.
How correctly to make tea from a dogrose?
The next recipe for those who do not yet know how to make tasty tea from a dogrose. It is preferable to use for this purpose a thermos bottle or, if there is none, to warm the container with the drink for a while. A valuable product does not tolerate prolonged boiling, but gives maximum of its properties with prolonged infusion in water at a temperature of 75-80 degrees.
Ingredients:
- dog rose - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- filtered water - 0,5 l;
- honey - to taste.
Preparation
- The hips are crushed, poured in hot water and left for 8 hours or overnight.
- If the thermos is not present, bring the dogrose with water to a boil, wrap it for at least an hour.
- When serving, sweeten the dogrose tea with honey.
How to make tea with cinnamon?
Amazing taste characteristics get classic black or green tea, if you supplement its composition with cinnamon. However, it is often brewed a tasty and healthy drink, using spice without tea leaves or a minimum number of them. For additional taste, you can add a slice of lemon or orange, berries, mint, citrus peel.
Ingredients:
- cinnamon - 2 tsp or 2 sticks;
- purified water - 1 l;
- orange - 1 piece;
- mint - 2 branches;
- black tea - 1 teaspoon;
- honey - to taste.
Preparation
- Slice the washed orange into slices, add to the container along with mint, cinnamon and tea leaves.
- Pour components with steep boiling water, boil for 2-3 minutes, give a little bit of it.
- Ready tea with orange and cinnamon filter and serve with honey.
How to make tea matum?
Those who are familiar with Thai cuisine will be interested in how to brew tea matum from dried fruits of the valuable exotic Bail tree, which is often called a wooden or stone apple. Such a drink is not only tasty, but also extremely useful. Its regular use will improve health and help to cope with a number of ailments more easily and quickly.
Ingredients:
- dried cups of "stone apple" - 4-5 pieces;
- water 400-500 ml;
- honey, lemon - to taste.
Preparation
- Mugs of dried exotic fruit are poured with steep boiling water, heated for a minute, after which they cover the container with a lid and insist for at least an hour.
- The longer Thai tea matum will be infused, the more saturated its final taste will be.
- Give a drink with honey, adding slices of lemon, if desired.
How correctly to make tea Puer?
The right Puer tea has an inimitable rich taste, an exquisite aroma, an invigorating and slightly intoxicating effect. The ideal brewing pot is an earthenware teapot, but it should not be used for brewing other types of tea. If there is no separate kettle, it is better to use porcelain or faience capacity.
Ingredients:
- Puer tea - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- purified water - 400-500 ml;
- honey - to taste.
Preparation
- The tea is poured into a heated brewer, poured hot water and immediately drained.
- Fill the leaves with a fresh portion of water, leave for 5-7 seconds, pour into a heated cup.
- Each subsequent serving of tea is insisted for 10-15 seconds more.
How to prepare sea buckthorn tea?
Increase nutritional value and enrich the properties of classic black tea will succeed, adding to the composition of berries of sea-buckthorn. You can make sea buckthorn tea with orange, lemon, add to the composition just a peel of citrus, a stick of cinnamon, other spices. The berry mass must first be grinded in a mortar or chopped into a blender.
Ingredients:
- black tea - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- sea-buckthorn - 150 g;
- purified water - 0,5 l;
- lemon or orange slices - to taste;
- honey - to taste.
Preparation
- Black tea, prepared sea-buckthorn berries, slices of citrus fruit are put in a hot brewer.
- Pour everything with steep boiling water, cover with a lid, wrap and give 5-10 minutes to infuse.
- When serving, sweeten the drink with honey.
How to brew yellow Egyptian tea?
Egyptian yellow tea is a drink obtained by brewing fenugreek. In addition to the delicate nutty taste, the drink has a lot of useful properties, which are maximally revealed when properly prepared. Seeds should be rinsed, dried and fried in a dry frying pan.
Ingredients:
- fenugreek - 4 tsp.
- purified water - 0,5 l;
- honey - to taste.
Preparation
- Prepared seeds are poured with water, heated to boiling and cooked for 5-10 minutes.
- Give the ready drink to stand under the lid for another 20-30 minutes, after which it is served with honey.
How correctly to make herbal tea?
Extremely useful are all kinds of herbal teas. Depending on the base component used, the beverage will have a different effect on the body. For example, a drink with mint or melissa will calm your nerves, thyme and mother and stepmother will help with coughing, and chamomile tea with lemon for sore throats. Any drink is preferably consumed without sugar or sweetened with honey.
Ingredients:
- herbs - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- purified water - 250 ml;
- honey, lemon - to taste.
Preparation
- The brewer is heated, rinsed with boiling water or placed in a container of boiling water.
- They fall asleep in a vessel of grass, pour steep boiling water, cover the container with a lid and wrap it well.
- After 5-30 minutes, depending on the expected saturation of the taste, pour the herbal tea into a cup and serve with honey.
How to prepare Kalmyk tea with milk?
Milk tea , cooked according to the Kalmyk recipe, will give vivacity and strength, will quench the feeling of hunger for a long time. The authentic recipe uses pressed green tea, but in the absence of it, you can take a plain leaf tea. The main thing is that the product is of good quality. Milk should ideally be camel or mare.
Ingredients:
- green tea - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- purified water - 250 ml;
- milk - 250 ml;
- butter - 0,5 tsp.
- pepper black laurel, nutmeg, salt - to taste.
Preparation
- The leaves of green tea are poured with cold water, heated to a boil and tamed on a quiet fire for 10 minutes.
- Add salt, bay leaves, black pepper, nutmeg, add hot milk and boil the drink for another 5 minutes.
- Put a slice of oil in the container, cover it with a lid and allow to stand for another 20 minutes.