How should I dress up the green tea to develop a taste for it! ?
So I want to start drinking green tea, rather than coffee. But I hate the taste of tea... Ice tea, lemon and honey tea... Etc. I hate the taste! However --- more often than not when I go to Starbucks I get Green Tea Frappuccino, and I don't know how far off the favor is from getting actual green tea brew from a supermarket.
Is there a green tea brand that I should get over another brand, should I put milk or cream in it? Sugar?
If so how much?
How should I dress up the green tea to develop a taste for it!
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Try it plain first then adjust it with milk and honey until it tastes more like the Starbucks version then gradually stop adding the milk and honey. Soon you will be drinking the plain tea with all it's benefits and no extra calories.
You can put sugar or milk in it. Even a dollop of ice cream. There is also sold a green tea ice cream. I love it, I think it's awesome.
However, I suggest that if you want to develop a taste for green tea, you don't dress it up... you just drink it straight and hot, the stronger the better. Hold it in your mouth for a while, tasting it. Swallow it and pay attention to the taste at the back of your mouth. Pay attention to the smell from the cup and the way you can kind of smell it when you swallow it. Then wait before you take another drink. feel the way your mouth cools down. Taste the changing tastes in your mouth as the rest of the tea taste goes away. Then drink again.
When selecting your own tea from the store, the darker green the brew, the higher quality the tea, as a general rule of thumb. A brownish "green tea" is not a very good one.
You are really never supposed to put milk or cream in tea (atleast I don't/have been told not to and tried it so I know I shouldn't because it's not tasty) unless you're doing liptons French vanilla tea with some delight brand French vanilla creamer and sugar. That's really good. What I usually put in tea is either honey , or a few spoonfuls of sugar. It's so good! Especially for green tea. Don't out milk or cream in it, it will taste gross.
I think a lot of the Arabic brands of green tea are delicious, you can find them at international markets. No milk or cream. Put sugar to your desired taste if you want, or do ginseng and honey.
Heat the water to just below boiling.
Brew no more than 2 minutes.
get some Lipton green tea/ice tea
heat up water until boils
insert tea bag
add ice(optional) and sugar
try iced tea or rasberry iced tea. those dont taste too much like tea.
when i make green tea i add citrus to it. maybe lemon, orange, or lime. i also add sugar but add the sugar to your liking