Thai Iced Tea & Iced Coffee
Thai Iced Tea & Iced Coffee
In Thailand, iced tea is a very popular cold beverage often consumed with
desserts or simply on its own as a refreshing, thirst quenching drink.
Iced
coffee is less popular but is another widely consumed cold beverage in
this
country.
Thai iced tea gets its unique flavor from a combination of strongly brewed
tea, milk or cream, cardamom and cinnamon. Thai iced coffee is made from
very strong freshly brewed coffee and contains many of the same
ingredients
as Thai iced tea.
In Thailand, a traditional Thai tea steeper, a tubular filter made of
white
cotton attached at the top to a metal ring with a handle, is often used to
brew tea leaves to make iced tea. However, an ordinary teapot and tea bags
can be used with good results.
The following provides simple recipes for making Thai iced tea and Thai
iced
coffee. Each recipe provides 4 servings.
List of Ingredients
6 cups of water
8 Thai tea bags (found in most Asian food stores) or any other good
quality
orange pekoe tea
4 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground cardamom
12 mint leaves for garnishing
1 cup evaporated milk or half and half milk
Crushed iceRecipe
Bring the water to a boil, put the tea and ground cardamom in a teapot and
pour
the water over the tea. Let the tea steep for 5 minutes, then discard the
tea
bags and let the tea cool to lukewarm. Fill four 12 ounce highball glasses
half-way to the rim with crushed ice and then fill two-thirds full with
tea.
Into each glass, add 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4
cup
evaporated milk or half and half. Mix well. Garnish the top of each glass
with 3
mint leaves and serve.
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