Fermented tea from black currant leaves

Please yourself and your family with fragrant tea! The benefits of such tea are undeniable, it is made with your own hands, you have put a piece of your soul into it, anticipating a tea party with your family and friends.

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Composition / ingredients

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Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 d

Step 1:
Put the collected blackcurrant leaves in a bag and put them in the freezer for a day.This is necessary in order for the leaves to secrete, later, more juice.The next day, the leaves are passed through a meat grinder.These granules are obtained.
Step 2:
Cover the contents with a damp cloth and make sure that it does not dry out.This is where the fermentation process begins, this is a vivid example of a natural miracle!Thanks to her, seemingly simple leaves turn into a real tea with a unique taste.Fermentation can last from eight to eighteen hours.And here is the most important thing!!!It is necessary to catch the moment when a characteristic aroma, similar in smell to dried fruits, begins to emanate from the granules.That's it, fermentation is over!
Step 3:
Now we lay out to dry.You can dry it in the oven at a temperature of fifty degrees, stirring occasionally.It is possible on the street in the shade, only spread out in a very thin layer.Another option, you can dry in a slow cooker in the "yogurt" mode.After drying, the cooled tea is put into glass jars, with a tightly closed lid.Our tea will still ripen for one or two months, then it will show its berry flavor in all its glory!

I'll tell you, making fermented tea with your own hands is a very interesting and exciting activity.Last summer I had a chance to make such tea from black currant leaves.Although it is possible to brew the first tender leaves, they are also fragrant.But the tea prepared in this way turns out to be more saturated, tart and with a thick blackcurrant taste and aroma.You can combine several types of tea - you will get a bouquet of aromas.How nice, after a busy day, to get cozy in the kitchen with a cup of fragrant, delicious tea.I recommend you to make such fermented tea.Using this technology, you can make tea from any garden leaves.Tea made from apple and strawberry leaves is delicious, and tea made from plum leaves reminded me of the taste of chaga tea.Such tea, if arranged in a beautiful package, can serve as an excellent gift to friends and relatives.
You need to brew one teaspoon per cup of water, let it brew, and the taste can be supplemented with honey.