First flush tea recipes
Tea is the commonly found ingredient in everyone’s kitchen shelf. In fact most of us kick start our day after having a cup of tea. Tea is not only regarded as refreshing beverage but it is also known to have many health benefits. Regular drinking of the tea helps the body to combat various infections and viruses and keeps one fit and healthy.
Tea comes in different varieties and in varied tastes. Every blend provides unique scintillating experience to the palette. Tea connoisseurs love to explore various flavors of tea and most of them stick to the taste and brand for pretty long time.
If you think that all the teas are same in texture and taste, then you are wrong in your thinking. The tea leaves that are plucked very first after the harvesting of the plant have heavenly and mesmerizing taste. First flush tea is the tea that is defined as first plucking of the tea plant’s harvest season. The new growth leaves plucked during the first flush are the youngest and most tender part of the tea plant. First flush tea also is known to yield the purest and the freshest cup of tea; that the plant is capable of producing.
Tea lovers buy first flush tea online because of its unique rejuvenating taste and mesmerizing aroma. Tea of first flush is famously called a robust tea, the tea that has achieved high oxidation.
First flush is plucking the brand new two leaves and bud in the earliest spring growth of the plant as early as February. This plucking lasts till the month of April. The leaves being an early one are more delicate and tender and so are more light, floral, fresh, brisk and astringent in flavor. In order to preserve the refreshing flavor of the spring leaf, First flush teas are normally less oxidized during the processing. The tea also appears more in greenish color than a typical black tea.
Tea lovers buy first flush tea online to enjoy and relish the strong flavor, captivating aroma and relishing taste. Below are some of the amazing recipes of first flush teas, which tea lovers relish and enjoy to the core:
1. First flush tea with mango and mint: Summer is the season of yummy mangoes and aromatic mint. One can prepare yummy beverage with the help of these two tasty ingredients:
a. Boil the water and then remove it from fire to cool
b. Then add the tea leaves to a large pot and allow it to steep for few minutes
c. Strain tea and keep it in freezer
d. Add honey, lime juice and zest
e. Add iced water to the tea and make it to 4 glasses, this will also dilute the tea, which will otherwise be intensely flavored
f. Add mangoes and mint to the chilled tea and enjoy
2. First flush tea with spices:
a. Boil water and then allow it to cool
b. Add tea leaves and allow it to steep for few minutes
c. Strain the tea and keep it to cool in freezer
d. Add spices — cinnamon stick, grated ginger, cloves, pepper powder, cardamom pods, saffron (optional) to the tea
e. Add sugar and milk and enjoy spicy first flush tea
3. First flush with honey and lemon:
a. Boil the water and cool it
b. Add tea leaves and allow it to steep for few minutes
c. Drain the leaves and keep in freezer to cool
d. Add a spoon of honey and squeeze few drops of lemon
e. Enjoy chilled, first flush honey — lemon tinge tea
