Thai Iced Tea Recipe
Traditionally Thai Iced Tea is made with orange blossoms and vanilla beans, but my version below uses orange and vanilla extract for ease of recipe. If you wished to use vanilla bean you should split the bean and store it in the tea tin to infuse the flavor, then add a small piece to the brew.
Recipe follows the jump…
Thai Iced Tea Recipe
1 quart water
2 star anise pods
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 whole cloves
1/2 stick cinnamon, broken into pieces
2 Tablespoons black tea (china black preferred)
1/2 teaspoon orange extract
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup cream
1. Mix extracts into tea leaves (I mix up several batches worth of tea and spices/extracts so the flavors can mingle in advance).
2. Heat water to boiling.
3. Remove water from heat, add tea and spices.
4. Steep tea until a strong brew is obtained, up to 5 minutes.
5. Strain tea, stir in sugar until dissolved.
6. Pour into glasses over ice.
7. Float 1/4 cup cream over each glass, serve without stirring
Makes 4 glasses.
[...] Thai tea or Thai iced tea is popular in Thailand, Cambodia and Burma. Recipes vary, but are always made from strongly-brewed powdered black tea. Other ingredients in the powder vary, but may include spices such as star anise,cloves, cinnamon, tamarind and red and yellow food coloring. Thai tea is sweatened with sugar. Milk is added to the top of the glass at serving time and it is served cold. The tea is poured over crushed ice, then whole milk, half and half or cream is poured over the tea and ice, without stirring, before serving–it is never mixed prior to serving–to add taste and creamy appearance. It is traditionally served in a tall glass. Thai tea will be orange in appearance when poured over ice (sometimes aided with food coloring as mentioned above). Thai Iced Tea Recipe [...]