Tea Powder for Exhilarating Taste
If you are a tea aficionado, you will be familiar with Matcha tea. But
are you aware of how a mix of the rich Indian spices with the best tea powder
in India can create calming and soulful flavors? Let us quickly go through some
magical recipes with their benefits and uses. Let us first understand how to
powder tea leaves. The dust CTC tea are ideal, and you can further crush them
to a fine consistency with stone and mortar or use a grinder. The tea leaf will
not need any long steeping or brewing so you must be careful to powder grind
well.
The herbal extract
The concept from Japan where tea powder is a part of the regular herbal
tea consumed by them. The secrets of health benefits in tea were known to them
much before it came to India. However, our herbal infusions are unique and
widely loved by them too. The tradition of herbal tea in not unknown. The
subtle medley of spices with tea at different times of the day or a warm cup
during an after-meal tête-à-tête is an integral part of our culture. You can
conjure a tea feast with grounded tea leaves, petals of Asian pigeonwings,
cinnamon, clove and cardamom. If you want to sweeten the beverage, drizzle some
honey and your stimulant will not just be a healthy tonic but a refresher that
banishes the fatigue away completely. Drinking this anytime of the day will add
a spring to your steps.
The process of commercial powdering
The freshness and strength of the tea leaves add the real wonder to the
magic portion. Well known tea makers write that though dust tea is made out of
fannings (smaller grade CTC teas) but they are more expensive than the whole
leaf of cheaper teas. They brew a strong liquor which is a fruity flavorful
delicacy that pleases with or without milk.
The tea leaves are selected with a great deal of finesse and care.
Handpicked by skilled tea pluckers, the tea leaves are processed and dried. The
liquid is extracted from the leaves to make a concentrated brew of the leaves
and the dust. The liquid goes through a spray/ freeze drying process which
separates the powder from the liquid. There is another way that powdered tea is
made. The harvested leaves are crushed for juice extraction. The extracted
juice is fermented in the right conditions. A centrifuged steaming process
follows. The juice is frozen dry, and the powder remains. The leftover leaves
are fermented and dried and then processed in the same way for a courser
texture. The homemade one not just smells sweet with the labor of love
but is undeniably an authentic extract from the best tea powder in India. It is
chai par excellence.
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