Natural Energy: Zen Tea


You don’t have to wander away to see how important...

Natural Energy: Zen Tea

You don’t have to wander away to see how important the ginger is to my life… Even when naming my website, “ginger” had already been set and ready to meet the word that would accompany!

 

I think of it as one of the greatest things that the Far East has given us. With the pungent smell exuding from my cup throughout the day, my family and friends came to identify ginger with me.

 

In addition to the delightful aroma it leaves in meals, ginger also enlivens my body with its tea, exhausted by the numerous business trips. Almost every day for years, I cut the ginger in circles and leave it in hot water for 10 minutes and drink it after it comes to a boil for one time.

 

Ginger tea, as I briefly call “Zen Tea” (abbreviated from the Turkish word for ginger, Zencefil) will be a nightmare for the flu that’s run rampant nowadays ending up in a pile of handkerchiefs wasted by you. It will be an elixir to restore your body to health, weakened by the illness.

 

Zen Mix Ingredients (for 1 person)

 

  • 1 cup of hot water
  • 1 teaspoon of sage
  • 1 teaspoon of mint
  • 1 teaspoon of thyme
  • 2 teaspoon of clove brew
  • 2 teaspoon of cinnamon stick brew
  • 1 dessertspoon of honey
  • 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
  • 5 sugar cubesized fresh ginger

 

Preparation:

  1. Put everything other than honey and lemon juice in the pot or jezwe
  2. Pour the hot water and leave it to brew for 10 minutes
  3. Then, place it on the stove to boil.
  4. When it comes to a boil, remove it from the stove.
  5. Strain it into the cup.
  6. Lastly, add the lemon juice and honey into the mixture.

 

For some pungency in its taste, I strongly recommend you to keep some fresh ginger in your refrigerator so that you might feel every drop passing through your throat. You will fall in love with the Zen tea with its pungent taste mildly mixed with some sweetness.

                                   

 

 

Bon appétit and enjoy the taste of your life…


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