How to Re Steep Loose Leaf Green Tea
How to get a second cup from loose leaf green tea by re steeping the same leaves: a short first steep, then a slightly longer one.
Good loose leaf Green Tea is worth re steeping: the same leaves will give you a second, and often a third, cup. The first steep is short and bright; the second, a touch longer because the leaves have already opened, comes out softer and grassier.
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It is the easiest way to get more from your tea, and a good way to taste how the flavour shifts between infusions. Makes two cups from one teaspoon.
You'll need
- 2.5g Dilmah Ceylon Pure Green Loose Leaf Tea (1 heaped teaspoon)
- 400ml total freshly drawn water (200ml per cup, at 80C)
- 2 200ml mugs, warmed
- 1 small mesh tea infuser or a small fine sieve and a tea pot
- 1 saucer for covering during steep
Method
- Warm two mugs. Boil the kettle and let it cool for a minute or so to about 80C.
- Put a heaped teaspoon of leaves in an infuser and steep in 200ml of 80C water for two minutes; this is your first cup.
- Lift the infuser out and set the wet leaves aside, draining them gently.
- For the second cup, pour another 200ml of 80C water over the same leaves.
- Steep this one for three minutes, a little longer, as the opened leaves give up their flavour more slowly.
- Re steep within an hour or so; leaves left sitting too long between infusions go stale and flat.
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Brewed with: Dilmah Ceylon Pure Green Loose Leaf Tea, 100g
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