Tea is a tonic drink, distinguished not only by its taste, but also by its beneficial qualities. Properly prepared tea will not only warm you in the cold season and refresh you during the summer heat, it can also have a very beneficial effect on the state of the human body. It is enough to “award” it with a train from any spice. In cookbooks and on the Internet you can find a lot of recipes. But the most intriguing, perhaps, will remain the recipe for a spicy drink - tea with pepper. It will be presented in our article.
What it is?
Spicy drink is aimed at stimulating the body's metabolic processes. Tea with pepper improves the body's ability to get rid of extra pounds. In addition, taking a truly “hot” drink will strengthen your immune system and thereby protect against colds and viral diseases.
Usually in such cases it is customary to add red or black peas. It can be combined with both black and green teas. Of course, the taste of "master" can be provided with an invigorating drink and other spices. For example, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger and so on.
The benefits of the drink
According to doctors, pepper tea lowers blood cholesterol and has a diuretic effect. Earlier it was said that it is able to accelerate metabolism, but few people know that a drink can prevent the spread of cancer cells in the body.
In addition, thanks to the drink, many people have successfully restored the digestive system.
Pepper tea is a powerful tool for removing toxins and toxins from the body over the years.
Choosing pepper ...
As in the choice of tea varieties, the inhabitants of each country are guided here by their taste preferences. Allocate only two grades of tea - black and green. But what happens with pepper? Next, consider the most famous types of peppers.
So there are:
- allspice - a spice will give the drink a spicy and strong invigorating aroma, people who prefer a sharp taste will appreciate it;
- bell pepper - this type of pepper has a delicate and unusual taste, it is added to the drink in the form of paprika;
- Brazilian red or cayenne - makes the tonic drug very aromatic and pungent in taste;
- Jamaican pepper is a combination of the scent of cinnamon, nutmeg and black pepper;
- Guinea pepper - often added not only to tea, but also to alcoholic beverages, hot spice is the most famous variety in African countries - it gives the tea a rich taste and pungent aroma;
- Japanese pepper is a seasoning with a delicate aroma (reminiscent of the smell of lemon or orange).
And although such tea has a number of advantages, there are some contraindications to its use. For example, you should not indulge in this drink for those who have diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as for people with individual intolerance to this spice.
Red pepper tea
Since capsaicin is contained in such a drink, it brings great benefits to the body. Red pepper is more likely the prerogative of green tea varieties. It is this combination that will allow you to fight viruses and the development of cancer cells, since in the aggregate green tea with pepper is a powerful antioxidant in the service of preventing many diseases. In addition, the drink helps get rid of colds of a mild nature and even flu! Red pepper tea kills various infections and bacteria, which makes it indispensable when the body is slagged.
Black pepper tea
This delicious and aromatic drink gives vigor in difficult moments and perfectly warms in cold. It is just a salvation in the cold, when there is a risk of catching a cold. However, truly healthy tea can only be obtained from a high-quality product.
Tea Tips
When buying green tea, you should pay attention to the color of the product. A quality variety has a green color with a silver or yellow tint. High-quality Chinese tea varieties are distinguished by a delicate green, pistachio hue. By the way, it is the pile covering the tea leaf that determines the taste of the drink. It is believed that elite and expensive tea should have leaves of lighter shades.
According to tea experts, a product collected from the same bush at different times of the year is distinguished by taste and aroma. In spring, you can get leaves with a sweet taste, and in summer - with light astringency.
How to make a warming drink?
According to the recipe, pepper tea is made from the following ingredients:
- 3 grams of black tea;
- 1 glass of water with a temperature of up to 90 degrees;
- 3 pinches of cinnamon;
- granulated sugar to taste;
- 3 pinches of red pepper;
- tangerine zest.
So, let's start cooking.
Throw all the components of a warming drink into a teapot. Fill with hot water. Cover and let the drink brew for a quarter of an hour. After brewing and filtering the tea, add sugar (optional) and proceed to tea drinking.
Uzbek tea
Before brewing a drink according to this recipe, you need to place the kettle in the oven.
To make Uzbek warming tea, take:
- small black tea;
- water
- black pepper peas.
First, warm up our teapot, then rinse it with hot water. In order to prepare one serving, take one teaspoon of tea leaves per 200 ml of water.
We put in the teapot a teapot and four peas of black pepper, pour 50 ml of water. We put the kettle in the preheated oven for several minutes. We take out the teapot from the oven and pour some more water. Cover it with a lid and let stand for 3-4 minutes. We pour out all the remaining water and send the kettle back to the oven.
Two minutes later you will receive an amazing aromatic tea, which will only need to be filtered and immediately sent to the table.
Pepper and Ginger Tea
This recipe was invented by yogis.
To prepare it, prepare the following:
- 2 glasses of water;
- 6 peas of black pepper and cardamom;
- 100 ml cream or milk;
- 2 teaspoons of honey;
- 2 pinches of ground ginger;
- 6 pieces of clove spice;
- 1 teaspoon black leaf tea.
We start cooking. Combine all the spices and mix. We fill them in a container, pour water and send to boil over low heat. After boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for another 20 minutes. Add milk and honey to the tea leaves 5 minutes before the end.
Mix the resulting drink well, remove it from the heat and let it brew for 10 minutes. Then you can begin to tea with peace of mind and enjoy the rich taste of spiced tea (do not forget to filter!).