Tulsi- Ginger Tea: The warm blend of aromatic tulsi and spicy ginger

Allow the heat of strong ginger accented with Tulsi’s transformative energy in a cup to banish dull, damp - cold days………………

Ingredients:

1. 8-10 leaves of tulsi (Indian basil)
2. 4-5 gm ginger
3. 2 tsp honey

Method:

• Add Tulsi leaves and grated ginger in boiling water
• Simmer it for few minutes
• Sieve it and pour it in tea cups
• Add honey while stirring
• Serve hot but in summers you can have it chilled.

Note: if you want to add milk, it goes perfectly with it.

Ginger Tea

Winters have almost arrived and brought along with them common cold and sour throat……………….so I thought of sharing few recipes of herbal teas that my parents have been making for us since our childhood

Ginger Tea

Ingredients:

1. 4-5gm ginger
2. 1 lemon
3. 2tsp honey

Method:

• Grate the ginger and put it in boiled water
• Cover the lid and keep it boiling for 8-10 minutes
• Pour the sieved tea in the tea cup
• Squeeze a lemon over it
• Add honey while stirring
• Enjoy the hot and spicy ginger tea and get rid of the cold

Mint Tea

Mint Tea

Ingredients:

1. Half cup Mint leaves 
2. 3-4 grounded black pepper (you can get the best taste only if they are freshly grounded) 
3. ½ tsp grounded Fennel seeds (saunf) 
4. 4-5 gm ginger 
5. One lemon 
6. 4 tea bags 
7. 4 tsp honey 

Method:

• Add mint leaves, fennel seeds, black pepper, grated ginger and tea bags in boiling water 
• Simmer it for few minutes 
• Sieve it and pour it in tea cups 
• Squeeze lemon over it 
• Add honey while stirring 
• Serve hot, in summers you can have it chilled also 

Note: If you want to add milk in the tea don’t add lemon.