Chef Nancy Berkoff beforehand shared the next options in her Vegan Cooking Ideas column of Vegan Journal.
Maintain some brewed tea within the fridge to make use of for cooking, marinades, and to taste sauces. Tea is a superb flavoring for mushrooms, tofu, cooked grains, roasted greens, and smoothies.
There are such a lot of teas from which to decide on, with plenty of forms of white, inexperienced, and black, caffeinated, decaffeinated, and natural. You should purchase white, inexperienced, or black tea and taste it or buy pre-flavored tea. Scorching tea might be flavored with cinnamon, contemporary or dried ginger, contemporary or dried mint, lemon grass, lavender, dried rose petals, rosewater or orange blossom water, contemporary or dried lemon or orange zest or peel, orange juice, pineapple juice or apple juice focus, dried cranberries, dried pineapple… the record goes on! You’ll be able to pour brewed tea over your flavoring of selection, or you possibly can brew the tea with the flavoring.
Should you’d like additional garnish or taste, place some frozen pineapple (nonetheless frozen) or mango into the tea whereas it’s brewing. This may add to the flavour and texture. If there’s a world market close by (or browse the web), strive the next scorching drinks:
Korean:
Roasted corn and roasted barley are bought within the tea part of Korean markets. The roasted corn has a naturally candy taste and a fragile yellow coloration. The barley has a nutty, full-roasted taste and a golden brown coloration. Add a number of teaspoons to 2 cups of boiling water and permit to boil for 2-3 minutes. Some folks wish to brew the corn and barley collectively. While you’re on the retailer, buy dried chrysanthemum or jasmine flowers to make use of as a garnish on your scorching grain beverage or tea. You may as well brew the flowers on their very own — they make a aromatic and flavorful scorching brew! You’ll be able to drink your floral teas iced, too. This additionally works as a cooking liquid for rice, inexperienced greens, and grains.
Japanese:
Peel and slice contemporary ginger, letting a number of small slices steep in boiling water for a number of minutes. The ginger tea will tackle a fragile, pale inexperienced coloration and have a light however stimulating taste. Ginger tea is alleged to be good for sore throats or hoarse voices and it may possibly heat a crowd on chilly nights. Garnish ginger tea with orange or grapefruit straws. (Peel fruit and minimize lengthwise into sq. “straws.”) You may as well put some frozen strawberries or raspberries within the tea whereas it’s brewing. This may create a festive coloration and texture. A unique spin on this could be a scorching lemonade. You probably have contemporary lemons out there, you possibly can wash them, slice them thinly, and steep in boiling water with contemporary ginger or frozen raspberries or strawberries (nonetheless frozen) and a sweetener of selection. If contemporary lemons aren’t out there, you need to use refrigerated or frozen (unsweetened) lemon juice focus.
South African:
When brewed, rooibos appears to be like like a cup of conventional black leaf tea and has a light, nice style. Taken from the bark of a tree that grows solely in South Africa, rooibos has no caffeine, however plenty of taste. Search for it in pure meals shops. Rooibos additionally tastes nice mixed with a small quantity of vanilla extract and sweetener, orange zest and coriander, or a small quantity of maple syrup and white pepper for a very attention-grabbing beverage. Rooibos can be utilized for flavoring chocolate- and cherry-based desserts and fruit ices.
Should you’d wish to transcend tea, mix brewed tea with scorching rice or almond milk (soymilk can are likely to curdle), cinnamon, ginger, black pepper (sure, black pepper), and inexperienced and black coriander to create a “chai latte.” This may also be carried out with brewed espresso. Any leftover might be frozen for a scrumptious latte ice or latte ice cubes to be served with chilly drinks.
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