Sunday, February 13, 2011

Recipe - Desi-style tea (Dorm Edition)

Thanks to my roommate for this recipe. I used to drink coffee for my caffeine, but now I drink nothing but this (except Joe Van Gogh's Greek Frappe, which is so good btw that I don't have sufficient words or time to write about it. fyi, I also converted three of my friends to it already. Give it a try.). Don't get me wrong, it's not like some 5-star tea. But it's easy, satisfying, and decent for when you need caffeine for late nights.
 
What is desi-style tea? In a nutshell, people in India and Pakistan make tea that is significantly better than the white-people kind, because they boil it slowly and gradually, to get all the flavors out of it or something. This kind of preparation is the desi-style.


Microwave Desi-style Black Tea

  • a mug
  • (2) black tea Lipton bags
  • water (of the Pellegrino kind, if you feel this somehow enhances the quality of your microwave tea)
  • milk
  1. Put everything in the mug....
  2. ...until it's filled about 3/4 way through
  3. ....and microwave for 3 minutes, uncovered.
Milk can be any kind. I use skim because I try to be healthy, but of course I'd rather use whole like my roommate does. But I have recently compromised with my carton of half & half.


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