Tea with orange has an invigorating citrus aroma, pleasant taste and color, contains various vitamins and essential oils. It is perfectly complemented with milk, ginger, cloves, mint and honey, and has a tonic and warming effect. What else is orange tea useful and how to brew it properly at home?
Delicate or tart orange tea is associated by most people with a citrusy taste and aroma, which is responsible for the essential orange oil contained in the dense peel. The pleasant and disturbing aroma of orange fruit allows you to put off anxiety for a while, tune in to a positive mood and enjoy a tonic drink.
Orange tea properties, benefits and harms
Orange tea, brewed with peel, slices or sweet fruit juice, helps to improve mood, relieve internal discomfort and fatigue, and cast aside negative emotions. A drink containing essential oil has the following beneficial properties:
- antiseptic (useful for colds);
- regenerating;
- tonic (invigorating the body);
- immunostimulating;
- calming the nerves;
- anti-inflammatory.
Thanks to the content of antioxidants, minerals and vitamins, this aromatic hot drink benefits the body:
- is an excellent antidepressant;
- slows down the aging process;
- helps fight various diseases;
- enhances immunity;
- gives a person a long-term charge of vivacity and good mood;
- calms the nervous system;
- relieves stress, fatigue;
- helps fight colds during the cold season.
However, a tasty-smelling, pleasant-tasting drink can be harmful to the body. So, a large amount of antioxidants in tea can provoke disorders in the functioning of the kidneys and liver. People with ulcers and gastritis should not make such tea either. In addition, citruses are good allergens, you need to use them in any form with caution, especially for children, pregnant and lactating women.
Popular orange tea recipes
There are many recipes for a fragrant and invigorating orange drink, because everyone has different tastes and preferences. You can add cloves, mint, fresh honey to the teapot, dissolve milk or freshly squeezed orange fruit juice.
- With orange slices. Put 5 teaspoons of black tea in a teapot, pour boiling water over, leave for 3 minutes. Throw 1 orange slice into each cup, add 1-2 teaspoons of granulated sugar. Pour infused drink, drink hot or chilled.
- With zest. Peel half of the brushed orange, squeeze the pulp. Grate the zest on a fine grater, pour boiling water in a kettle, let it brew. Then strain the drink and bring to a boil. Pour a teaspoon of black leaf tea into a teapot, pour orange broth. Insist for 4-5 minutes under the lid, drink hot, adding a little pre-squeezed juice for aroma and taste. You can stir sugar or a little honey in a cup if desired.
- With milk and orange syrup. 150 ml of milk is boiled in separate containers and 5 teaspoons of black tea are brewed in 150 ml of hot boiling water. Both liquids are slightly cooled, mixed by adding 150 ml of orange syrup. The recipe is given for 5 small cups, you can prepare such a drink for a family.
- With honey and mint. Brew 2 tablespoons of black leaf tea. Separately combine a couple of pounded orange circles with a spoonful of liquid honey, a couple of chopped mint leaves. Divide the mixture into cups, pour over the tea slightly cooled in a teapot.
- With cloves. Mix 3 teaspoons of black tea with the grated zest of half an orange, 2 aromatic clove buds and granulated sugar (to taste). Pour boiling water over the mixture, brew under the lid for 10 minutes.
- With ginger. Grate a small ginger root, pour boiling water in a kettle for 10 minutes. Squeeze the juice from a large fruit here, stir with a spoon, leave to infuse for a couple of minutes under the lid.
