Darjeeling Tea With Milk
This darjeeling too can be drank with dash of milk but depends on personal preference.
Darjeeling tea with milk. How to drink darjeeling tea. Purists drink darjeeling tea without milk sugar or lemon. The most favourable darjeeling tea to be enjoyed with the addition of milk is the black tea from second flush crop and autumn flush crop. Let it brew for 3 to 5 minutes.
Pour water over the tea and steep for three minutes. Some other differences between royal milk tea and other teas is the former is made delicately on the stovetop. Leave to brew 3 to 5 minutes before serving. It caught on and its popularity grew.
Makes 4 1 cup servings. Add milk and or honey to taste. However if you re inclined to add milk to a cup of darjeeling be sure to pick one of the later flushes or monsoon flush varieties of the tea as they are more robust in flavour. Add 3 teaspoons loose tea or the recomended number of teabags to the boiling water.
Add 1 teaspoon of high quality loose leaf darjeeling tea into a warmed teapot. Darjeeling teas may be sipped with the addition of milk. Tea aficionados consider it sacrilegious to add milk to first flush varieties of darjeeling tea due to its delicate flavour. If you are using broken leaves or fanning then half tea spoon will suffice.
Boil the water pour into the pot and cover the pot with the lid. Royal milk tea was originally invented by lipton in japan in 1965 as part of their royal recipe series. Now it is a drink beloved by people all over the world. The process is much different than brewing a cup of english.
Not all darjeeling teas are suitable for sipping with the addition of milk. This includes many single origin teas from india with the exception of darjeeling sri lanka formerly ceylon indonesia and parts of africa and south america. I like darjeeling and other weak pishy teas and i have it equally with either milk or lemon. Boil water and then allow it to cool for a minute or two.
If you like mashed stewed and spoon dissolving tea then you can get english breakfast and others over here. This fancy drink is made with black tea most often assam or darjeeling with a higher ratio of milk than other teas. 3 01 12 2006 09 22. In general bold astringent black teas or red teas as they are known in china and taiwan will be your best bets for adding milk and sugar.
Place 1 tea spoon full of whole tea leaves in a cleaned empty pot. Fill the teapot with fresh boiling water. The tea leaves are processed as black tea though some estates have expanded their. Normally darjeeling autumn flush teashave a full bodied coppery cup with floral essence reminiscent of first flush character.
Pour away the water.