Tea with ginger cooking recipes

Ginger tea is an excellent remedy forcolds, but not only, it is also a very tasty and fragrant drink. More useful properties of ginger are already described in one of the articles of the Land of Soviets. Now we suggest you make a delicious fragrant tea with ginger, the recipes of which you can find in this article.

How to choose a ginger for tea?

Ginger is a plant that at the momentare grown in China, India, Australia, Jamaica, Barbados, West Africa, Indonesia and Australia. The taste of ginger depends on the processing of the root and the region where this plant has grown.

There are black and white ginger roots. Black ginger is eaten with peel. The taste of black ginger is very spicy and spicy. The taste and aroma of white ginger is not as strong as that of black ginger, but it has a softer flavor.

Pay attention to the origin of ginger formaking tea. Remember that Jamaican ginger has a delicate aroma. But Japanese ginger has a more delicate taste than Chinese. Ginger, grown in Africa and India, has a darker root color and has a bitter taste.

And of course, the taste of tea with ginger will vary depending on what tea leaves you want to use as a basis.

Green tea with ginger

Green tea with ginger has a very soft and delicate taste. It is sure to please all admirers of green tea.

Necessary ingredients:

1 liter of water

4 tsp. green tea

30-40 g of ginger

honey to taste

lemon to taste

Step-by-step instruction:

Peel a small piece of ginger root from the peel.

Slice the ginger into thin slices. To brew a liter of tea, usually just a few slices of ginger.

Brew green tea with hot water.

When the tea is ready, add ginger slices to it and insist another 5-10 minutes.

Finished tea strain through a strainer and pour over the cups.

If desired, in the tea can add a little honey and a slice of lemon.

Black tea with ginger

Black tea with ginger can be brewed exactlysame as green. However, it will be much more delicious to cook it according to the special recipe that we offer. In this version, ginger tea is very fragrant, and the currant leaves perfectly complement the specific taste of black tea.

Necessary ingredients:

3 tsp black tea

2 teaspoons of black currant leaves (fresh or dry)

30-40 g of ginger root

1 liter of water

Step-by-step instruction:

Brew a simple black tea. Focus on your preferences: you can easily adjust the strength of tea by changing the amount of tea leaves specified in the recipe.

Brew the tea and pour it into the thermos.

Brush a slice of ginger and slice it into thin slices.

Ginger slices add to the tea in the thermos.

Remove currant leaves with boiling water and also add in a thermos bottle.

Attention: often the question arises, why pour boiling water on currant leaves. Fresh currant leaves are covered with a protective coating. It must be washed off, so that the leaf gives all its aroma to tea. Dry leaves are decocted from hygienic reasons - to wash away the dust that has settled during drying.

Close the thermos and let the tea steep for 15 minutes. A fragrant and delicious drink is ready!

Spicy tea with ginger and cinnamon

We offer you one more recipe of fragrant ginger tea with spices. And we remind you that for the preparation of any tea with ginger, you should take only the fresh root.

Necessary ingredients:

3 tsp. green tea

70-80 g fresh ginger root

1 liter. water

0,5 tsp ground cinnamon

10 boxes of cardamom

5 buds of a carnation

honey to taste

half a lemon

Step-by-step instruction:

2 teaspoons of green tea pour a liter of boiling water and brew for 5 minutes.

Peel a piece of ginger root 3-4 cm long and cut it into small thin slices.

Put the slices of ginger in a saucepan and add to it all the remaining spices.

On a note: The recipe is designed for lovers of spicy drinks with a very pronounced flavor, so it indicates the maximum allowed amount of spices. The dosage of cardamom and cloves you can quite reduce in accordance with their preferences.

Pour into the saucepan with spices green tea along with the leaves and put it on a small fire.

Bring the tea to a boil and cook on the lowest heat for 20 minutes.

Scald the lemon with boiling water, cut it into two pieces and squeeze into juice the juice from one half.

Lemon rind with squeezes cut into 4 parts and also throw in the tea.

If there is a desire, you can add a little honey to ginger tea.

Attention: even if you really like sweets or you like honey, never put more than 3 teaspoonfuls of tea in ginger tea per liter of tea. More honey will completely smell the flavor of ginger, and you will not be able to appreciate the tea with spices.