Health Benefits of Tea

Call on all tea fans! Whether you enjoy a cold beer on a hot summer day or a hot tea on a cold winter night, tea is good for your health. This hot drink is filled with antioxidants that protect human cells from damage. Drinking tea can add water, strengthen the immune system, prevent bone loss, and help prevent heart disease and stroke.

 

Do you know you can make tea? I am here to tell you, not only possible but also delicious! This can be a great addition to creative mains, desserts, and seasonings. The easiest way to cook with tea is to add it to freshly marinated marinade and spices for meat, fish, or poultry.

 

Useful Tips and Ideas When Making Tea:

• Add some brewed black tea to spice up the gravy, soup, and stew. Add a tablespoon to the gravy and pour half of it into a pot of stew or chili. The recommended tea is a strong tea, such as Keemun, Assam, or Yunnan.
• When cooking chicken or shrimp, use brewed green tea or oolong tea instead of water.
• Use dry tea leaves as a salad dressing to add flavor and crunch, or try brewing green tea in your favorite salad dressing.
• Mix dried tea leaves with herbs and spices and grind them into powder to create a delicious scrub for meat, poultry, and fish, for a delicious taste! Use hearty black teas, such as Ceylon Kandy, Xiaobai Shouxin, or Assam, which are great for rubbing.
• Use tea to add flavor to the rice. Use boiled tea instead of boiled rice. You can also crush the bulk tea and mix it with the cooked rice. The tea recommended for rice is Genmaicha, Sencha, or Jasmine.
• When boiling eggs, soak the boiling water and tea on the boiled eggs to marbled the surface of the eggs. At the end of cooking, the tea will penetrate the small cracks in the bowl, resulting in a marbled appearance. Green tea or black tea works well.
• Brewed tea can be used as a seasoning for stews or marinades. As a base of the sauce, the juice can be added with tea to enhance the flavor.
• There are several tea brewing techniques to make sure the tea is not too bitter.
• Pour pure spring water on the leaves and let it steep at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Use 1 teaspoon of tea for every 8 ounces of water and soak in boiling (180-185 °) water for 3-5 minutes.
• Cold brewing is another preparation method. Use 2 teaspoons of tea for every 8 ounces of cold water. Soak for 2 hours.