Give A Healthy Twist To Regular Chai With These Herbal Teas

If you are bored from dalgona challenge then give a twist to your regular tea. Adding herbs and spices to your regular tea will drive all lockdown blues. Besides this, they are healthy and help you fight cough and cold.

Here are simple herbal teas for boosting immunity whilst enjoying tasty aromatic brews. Furthermore, you don’t need many ingredients, everything is already in your kitchen.

Ginger Tea With A Twist

Make a regular ginger tea with few more ingredients that make it a per healthy drink. Flaxseed or alsi and jaggery goes well with dry ginger and helps fighting cough and cold.

Also, add ajwain and mulethi to the tea and enjoy a delicious and healthy kaada. All you need is a tbsp of flaxseeds, jaggery, half tbsp dry ginger powder, and 2 cups water.

Let the water boil in a pin, add the flaxseeds(crushed), and all ingredients. Now, cover the pan and keep the flame low. Let it simmer for a minute. Let it boil on high flame. Your ginger flaxseed tea is ready to serve hot.

Also Read: Some Basic Food Preserving Ideas You May Use During Lockdown

Window Garden Brew

To enjoy a healthy morning cuppa, check out your garden for the ingredients. The tulsi leaves, lemongrass, and clove make a healthy, anti-oxidant rich brew. You will love this herbal tea as it makes you feel fresh for the rest of the day.

Here is the recipe:

• Water- 4 cups
• Basil leaves-6-7
• Tulsi leaves-6-7
• Ginger-1 inch
• Cumin-1 tbsp
• Mint leaves-8-9
• Ajwain leaves-2
• lemongrass stalk-4
• cloves-2
• black peppercorns-2-3
• Honey or sugar

Now, to make your window garden tea boil water in a pan. Put all the ingredients into the boiling water except mint leaves and lemongrass. Let it simmer for 10 minutes with the covered lid.

When the water reduced to half, add the remaining ingredients. Let them boil for 10 more seconds. At last, add sugar or honey(whatever you like) and stir. Serve it hot.

Rose Tea

Most of the people have a rose plant in their garden.

So, beside admiring the beautiful roses in the garden, make a healthy tea using it. Here are the ingredients.

• Roses-4-6
• jaggery-1/4 tbsp
• Salt
• Lemon wedge-1

Now, take the petals out of the roses and wash them thoroughly. Blend the petals with half cup of water and jaggery. Strain the mix, add water(if needed), and lemon. Enjoy your rose tea.

Turmeric Tea

Turmeric is known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. Moreover, turmeric tea is very versatile and goes well with any flavor. If you feel pain in joints then make drinking turmeric tea a regular habit. To make this, take two cups water, one tbsp turmeric, and grated ginger.

Boil the tea for 10 minutes at low flame. You can dip a teabag if you want. Now, complete the tea with one tbsp lemon juice. For sweetness, add honey. Enjoy your turmeric tea anytime you like.

Masala Tea

Missing masala chai? Well, you won’t because making masala tea is easy. It’s healthy as well. So, here is the recipe.

First, make masala chai powder with cardamoms(3-4), cloves(3), and cinnamon piece( a half inch). Now, boil water in a pan and add masala powder. Also, add crushed ginger and tea powder. On low flame, boil the tea for a few minutes.

When you start getting aroma pour the milk. Simmer it for 2-3 minutes. Cook it untill the smell of milk goes and your masala chai is ready.

So, try these herbal immunity boosting teas at home and drive away all your lockdown blues.