Thai Iced Tea Food

THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• In a kettle, bring the water to a boil. Place the tea in a teapot or glass container. Pour the water over the tea and let steep until bright orange in color, 3 to 5 minutes. Strain into a clean container, such as a pitcher (or, if in tea bags, remove the bags). Add sugar and stir to dissolve. Let cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Fill 6 tall glasses with crushed ice and add tea to 3/4 full. Add 1 tablespoon cream and 1 tablespoon condensed milk to each glass.
• Serve with iced-tea spoon so guests can swirl the mixture themselves.

AUTHENTIC THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• Place tea leaves in a tea filter bag and secure.
• Pour water into a pot and bring to a boil. Add tea bag and sugar. Return to a boil and stir until sugar has dissolved, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and allow tea to steep for 30 minutes.
• Discard tea bag. Let tea cool to room temperature. Refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours, or overnight.
• Fill 2 glasses 2/3 full of chilled tea. Slowly pour 1/4 cup coconut milk into each glass.

THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• Bring 6 cups of water to a boil.
• Stir in tea leaves, cardamom pods, crushed clove and cinnamon.
• Cover.
• Remove mixture from heat and let steep 5 minutes.
• Pour tea through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a pitcher, discarding tea leaves (caution--don't pour hot tea into a glass pitcher as it may break).
• Add sugar, stirring until dissolved; cool.
• Cover and chill 2 hours.
• Serve in a glass over crushed ice.
• Top with 3 to 4 tablespoons half-and-half.

THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Place tea in a tea sock, add to the boiling water, remove from the heat, and let steep for 5 to 10 minutes, depending on how strong you like your tea. Strain the tea into a pitcher and stir in the condensed milk. Fill 4 highball glasses with crushed ice, pour in the tea, and stir to chill. Add more sweetened condensed milk, if desired.

THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• Thai Tea Mix directions.
• 1. Bring water to boil and add the 4 tea bags. Add sugar and gently stir to completely dissolve sugar. Gently boil tea for about 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
• 2. Allow tea to steep for at least 30 minutes and allow it to cool. The more concentrated the tea flavor, the better the Thai tea tastes.
• 3. Remove the tea bags and set aside finished Thai tea to cool.
• 4. You can make this ahead of time and have the Thai tea chilling in the fridge.
• Thai Tea Assembly:.
• half and half (some folks also use coconut milk, whole milk, sweetened condensed milk).
• ice.

THAI ICED TEA CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Use butter wrapper to grease an 8-inch loaf pan, 8-inch square cake pan, or 8-inch round cake pan.
• 2. Brew tea with 3/4 cup boiling water, covered, for 10 minutes. Strain tea leaves and discard. In a mixing bowl, combine butter and freshly brewed tea until butter is completely melted. Whisk vanilla, half of the sweetened condensed milk, and the eggs. Mixture should be bright orange and very creamy. Gently stir in salt, flour, and baking powder. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow cake to cool for 20 minutes.
• 3. While cake cools, make the glaze. Whisk together remaining sweetened condensed milk and powdered sugar until a thick, creamy mixture forms.
• 4. To serve cake, run a knife along the edge of the cooled cake to gently loosen it from its pan. Turn cake out onto a plate and drizzle glaze over the top, allowing it to run down the sides of the cake.
• 5. Cake can either be served immediately or chilled and served cold.

TRADITIONAL THAI ICED TEA WITH STAR ANISE

Steps:

• Bring 1/2 gallon of cold water to a boil. Add 8 finely crushed star anise pods, 1 teaspoon orange blossom water, the scrapings of 1 vanilla pod or 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, a pinch each of ground cloves and ground cinnamon, and 1/2 cup Chinese black tea leaves.
• Boil for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and stir in 1 cup sugar and a few drops of red food coloring (optional, though traditional). Cover, steeping until tepid.
• Strain & place in the refriderator for a few hours to really chill.
• Pour the tea over plenty of crushed ice. Top with half-and-half or sweetened condensed milk.

THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• Bring water to a boil in a kettle; remove from heat. Add tea bags and steep for 5 minutes; remove tea bags.
• Stir sugar into tea until dissolved. Cool to room temperature.
• Fill 4 glasses with ice; pour tea into each glass until almost full. Stir 1 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk into each glass. Float 1 tablespoon half-and-half atop the iced tea.

SUGAR-FREE THAI ICED TEA

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except sugar substitute and milk in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and allow to simmer for 15 minutes.
• Strain into a pitcher. Add the sugar substitute and stir until dissolved. Chill until very cold.
• To serve, pour 2 tablespoons of evaporated milk over ice in a tall glass. Pour over 6-8 oz of iced tea, stir and enjoy!

THAI ICED TEA (ZWT-9)

Steps:

• In a med saucepan over med-heat, bring the water to a boil. Stir in the Thai tea powder & remove from heat. Stir well to mix in the sugar & then let it cool (stirring occ to dissolve sugar).
• When the tea has cooled to room temp, strain it thru a fine-mesh strainer or coffee filter into a pitcher & chill until serving time.
• To serve, fill 4-6 tall glasses w/ice & then add about 3/4 cup Thai tea to ea glass. Top off ea glass w/3-4 tbsp evaporated milk. Serve at once, as the evaporated milk cascades over the ice & swirls languidly into the tea.