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Thai Iced Tea
What you need:
3 Tea bags (I use Lipton)
1/4t Cardamom
3T sweetner
1c boiling water
ice
1/4c Soy or Rice Milk
What you do:
Add tea bags to boiling water. Add Cardamom and sweetner. Let steep for 3 minutes. Pour over ice and swirl. Add soy milk. Sometimes I add an almond flavoring for variety.
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Servings:
1
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
You can actually find loose leaf Thai tea at most well stocked Asian grocery stores. It's a red tea that is usually colored with dye to give the final product it's distinctive orange/red color. The traditional way to make it is by adding sugar and sweetened condensed milk to the brewed tea. I would use http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6295.0 and unrefined sugar to taste.
real Thai tea is orange even before brewing. you can recreate the flavor with recipes like this one (which I'm so excited to try!) but I work at a small tea shop and we actually do sell loose-leaf thai tea. it smells crazy good- lots of vanilla.