Thai Iced Tea Recipe

Thai Iced Tea Recipe

from whiteonricecouple.com
10 min

Please read the post about this Thai tea recipe. It discusses the brands and different methods on how to make it to get the orange color, as well as photographs to illustrate the process. When we made our Thai Tea mix from this mix we reduced their suggested sugar amount by about 20% to our own personal taste. For those of you who prefer an organic version with coconut milk, that option is below too. In the recipe there are two options for creating your Thai Iced Tea - Option #1 Using a purchased Thai Tea Mix.And Option #2 - Making it from scratch using organic black tea bags and spices.Nutrition based on using Thai tea mix.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Thai Tea Mix
  • 4 cups water
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup half and half ((approximately), (some folks also use coconut milk, whole milk, sweetened condensed milk))
  • ice
  • Option #2- 4 cups water
  • 4 organic black tea bags
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 anise stars
  • 1 green cardamom pod (, smashed)
  • 2 whole cloves
  • 3/4 cup half and half ((approximately), (some folks also use coconut milk, whole milk, sweetened condensed milk))
  • ice

Directions

  1. 1

    Bring water to boil and add the thai tea mix. Add sugar and gently stir to completely dissolve sugar. Gently boil tea for about 3 minutes. Remove from heat.

  2. 2

    Bring water to boil and add the tea bags, sugar, star anise, cardamom pod and cloves. Stir until all the sugar dissolves. Gently boil tea for about 3 minutes. Remove from heat.