How to Make a Warming Healing Mandarin Chinese Herbal Tea
Tea Name: Warming Healing Mandarin Chinese Herbal Tea
Traditional Chinese Name: 保暖茶 (bǎo nuǎn chá) – direct translation here is “keep warm tea”. This is a very generic name for teas that keep you warm.
Nature: Warming
Taste: Sweet and slightly bitter
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I made this delicious, warming tea after I went for a cold run (3C outdoor temp) and really felt it in my lungs and hands. This is a nice quick tea to make after I showered and warmed up to help increase blood circulation around the body.
What’s involved?
Prep time: 2 mins
Cook time: 5 mins
Total time: 7 mins
Serves: 2 cups
Ingredients
- 1 ripe mandarin orange, sliced
- 1 small piece of dried cinnamon bark
- 2-3 dried red dates
- 8 dried wolfberries
- small piece of dried tangerine peel (optional)
- 2.5 cups of boiling water
Cooking Instructions
- Slice your ripe mandarin, keeping the skin on.
- In a stove safe tea pot, add in your sliced mandarin and with a spoon or chopstick, smash the mandarin so that it’s somewhat broken and the juices are out.
- Add in the rest of your ingredients, the dried red dates, the wolfberries, the cinnamon stick.
- Add in 2.5 cups of cold water
- Set on your stove top and start on high heat until it boils. Reduce to medium heat and let that simmer for 5 minutes.
- Set aside and cool. I’ll pour out at this time into a glass cup.
- No sugar needed as the mandarin is sweet enough!
- Serve and enjoy!
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