Orange tea

Delicious, fragrant, tonic and refreshing tea! Many people like teas with various additives, they taste nicer. But it is not always possible to rely on the integrity of the manufacturer, to hope, that the composition contains natural additives, not dyes and flavors. Natural tea is easy to make at home.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Black Tea

Carnation

Ground cinnamon

Oranges

Water

Sugar

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 0 % 0 g

Fats 0 % 0 g

Carbohydrates 100 % 4 g

20 kcal

GI: 80 / 0 / 20

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients according to the list: black leaf tea without flavoring additives, orange, sugar (if there is no allergy to taste, sugar can be replaced with honey), cinnamon, cloves. To taste, you can add ingredients such as ginger, nutmeg for a more piquant taste and warming effect.
Step 2:
Wash the orange thoroughly, remove the zest on a fine grater. The main thing is not to touch the white skin of an orange, otherwise it will give the taste of the drink a bitterness.
Step 3:
Squeeze the juice out of the orange pulp, filter it through cheesecloth or a strainer with small cells so that the pieces of pulp do not get into the drink.
Step 4:
To fully reveal the taste of tea, you need to follow a little trick. Firstly, a teapot or other utensils for brewing tea should be made of glass or ceramics. Secondly, the kettle should be poured with boiling water and wiped dry before brewing tea. In the kettle we put a couple of teaspoons of leafy tea at the rate of one cup.
Step 5:
Add a couple of cloves and a pinch of ground cinnamon. It is better to use cinnamon not ready-made powder, but rub the right amount from a whole stick.
Step 6:
Add the orange peel to the kettle with the rest of the ingredients. Add half a teaspoon of sugar (sugar at this stage is needed to reveal the aroma of spices completely).
Step 7:
Pour hot water into the kettle (hot, but not boiling water, this is also important, otherwise most of the nutrients, contained in the components of the drink, may die). Water should be poured immediately, not a full kettle, but only a third of it. Cover the kettle with a lid and leave for 15 minutes.
Step 8:
After the specified time, when the tea has brewed, and all the spices have given their taste and aroma to the tea, top up the kettle with hot water to the top. Pour the juice squeezed from the orange into the cups and top it up with orange tea. It turns out to be a very pleasant, rich-tasting drink with citrus notes, which quenches thirst well, even saturates and does not require any additives. But if desired, tea can be served with any pastries or dessert. Have a nice tea party!

Orange will not only saturate the drink with citrus aroma, but will make it useful due to the properties it possesses: high content of vitamin C strengthens the immune system, slows down the aging process,
vitamin A helps to preserve youth, beauty of the skin and a healthy complexion, vitamin B has a calming effect on the nervous system.
Cloves are widely used not only in cooking, but also in medicine. It has such properties as the treatment of throat diseases, acute respiratory infections, normalizes digestion,
eliminates ventricular colic, relieves nervous overstrain. But like any medicine, such tea should be consumed in moderation, not often and not in large quantities. It increases the secretion of gastric juice, so it can harm people with stomach problems. Also, an overdose of antioxidants contained in an orange has a negative effect on the functioning of the kidneys and liver.