Simple Iced Pink Tea
Basic iced pink tea recipe
Servings: 2
Equipment
- small saucepan
- Electric frother
- Kitchen strainer
- Spoon
Ingredients
- 250 ml of water
- 100 ml of icy cold water
- 2 teaspoons of green tea leaves
- Pinch of bicarbonate of soda (1/6 of a teaspoon)
- 2 glasses of ice (serving glasses)
- 200 ml of whole milk
- 2 teaspoons of honey (one per glass) (optional)
Instructions
- Add 250ml of water into a small saucepan together with tea leaves.
- Bring it to a boil and reduce the heat to medium low.
- Add apinch of bicarbonate of soda. A pinch would equal about 1/6 of a levelledteaspoon. Add very little because the bicarbonate of soda may ruin the taste. Stir.
- Simmer for 10 minutes and stir the tea occasionally.
- Remove from the heat and add icy cold water.
- Strain it into serving glass filled with ice.
- Add milk into a small saucepan and turn on the heat to medium-low.
- Immediately start frothing the milk with an electric whisk. Do not let it boil.
- Milk will be ready when you have a layer of thick foam. This will take only a couple of minutes.
- Pour it into glasses with tea and top up with froth.