How to Re Steep Loose Leaf Green Tea

teas.co.uk · 10 min · Serves 2 cups from 1 leaf

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

1. Warm two mugs. Boil the kettle and let it cool for a minute or so to about 80C.
2. Put a heaped teaspoon of leaves in an infuser and steep in 200ml of 80C water for two minutes; this is your first cup.
3. Lift the infuser out and set the wet leaves aside, draining them gently.
4. For the second cup, pour another 200ml of 80C water over the same leaves.
5. Steep this one for three minutes, a little longer, as the opened leaves give up their flavour more slowly.
6. Re steep within an hour or so; leaves left sitting too long between infusions go stale and flat.

Recipe: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/green tea/how to re steep loose leaf green tea/