What can be tastier, richer and more aromatic than traditionally Russian sea-buckthorn tea? Such a healing drink that heals the soul and body was prepared in ancient times throughout Russia by our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and its bright yellow color cheers up and quenches thirst! Our completely simple recipes for making sea buckthorn tea will help you maintain good health and youth for many years to come!
The benefits of sea buckthorn tea
Sea buckthorn tea, the recipe of which you will find below, is endowed with useful, almost magical qualities. In addition to the high content of vitamins and minerals, sea buckthorn also contains organic acids, which treats almost all diseases. Especially the content of ascorbic acid goes off scale, which means that your immunity will become stronger. Compotes, jelly, jam are made from sea buckthorn, but we will learn about the intricacies of preparing such an elixir as sea buckthorn tea.
With the addition of mint and honey
What is needed to make sea buckthorn tea with a gentle sweet smack of honey and cool mint? You will need 3 cups of sea buckthorn juice, 1 liter of freshly boiled water, 2 cups of mint (pre-brewed) and 2 tablespoons of honey. If you do not like honey, feel free to replace it with sugar, but with honey, of course, more traditional.
Now we are preparing tea from sea buckthorn, honey and mint. Dilute the sea-buckthorn juice with boiled water so that it is not very concentrated, pour in a mint broth, put honey, mix everything thoroughly and put in a cool place to insist. Better serve chilled.
Sea buckthorn and apple juice tea
Now you already know how to make sea buckthorn tea. A recipe using apple juice implies the following ingredients: 2 cups of sea buckthorn, 5 apples and 150 g of honey.
We cook in this way: carefully sort through sea buckthorn and put the berries in a pan. Crush her so that she starts the juice, and pour boiling water. Squeeze apple juice (take cheesecloth or juicer). Now about how to brew tea: heat apple juice in a saucepan and immediately pour them the sea buckthorn berries, by then they will have been thoroughly steamed. So we got a kind of healing tea. It remains to add honey to it and mix. The drink is tasty when chilled, but you can add boiling water to it and thus warm it up. To prevent berry and aromatic tea from cooling, cover the pan tightly with a lid, wrap it with a towel and leave it warm for 10 minutes. Sea buckthorn tea with the addition of apple juice will infuse and become even tastier and richer.
Making a drink of sea buckthorn and ginger
We talked about how to brew sea buckthorn tea correctly with the addition of mint and apple juice. Now we offer a recipe where instead of these products ginger is put. Such tea is simply the most valuable cure for colds, strengthens the immune system, restores the body's defenses, which helps to recover faster after an illness, surgery or childbirth.
For preparation, you will need these ingredients: classic black tea without all kinds of flavors and additives - 1 teaspoon, a small piece of ginger root or dry ground ginger (fresh, of course, preferable), a little frozen sea buckthorn (about 1 tablespoon), 750 ml of boiling water honey at will.
Technology for preparing a drink from sea buckthorn with ginger root: boil water in a teapot. In the meantime, peel the ginger root from the skin with a knife and grate it on the smallest grater. Can be cut into small cubes. Crush the sea-buckthorn that has been thawed in advance in a bowl with a pestle to give juice. Pour tea into a container, add sea buckthorn and ginger root. When brewing tea, you can immediately put honey there. So it turns out healthier and tastier. Pour boiling water and leave to infuse for 4-5 minutes. After that, you can still suppress a little sea buckthorn with a pestle, this will only enhance the taste.
That's all! The drink is ready, and you can pour it into circles. It is best to use beautiful clear glass cups for such tea. So you, in addition to enjoying the taste, can contemplate the beautiful color of this divine drink. Its taste is sweet-sour, but not as sour as cranberries or currants, and not very sweet.