Lemongrass Tea
Lemongrass Tea Recipe
If you follow this recipe exactly, you may find that the drink is not sweet at all, and it is intentionally so, as I personally feel it tastes best with only a tiny hint of sweetness. Feel free to adjust the rock sugar to your preference.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams lemongrass (serai) pounded to release the flavour
- 5 pandan (screwpine) leaves tied in a knot
- 5 slices ginger
- 1.8 litres water
- 40 grams rock sugar or honey rock sugar to taste
Directions:
- In a pot, add the ingredients except rock sugar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 20-30 minutes.
- Add rock sugar and stir until dissolved. Discard lemongrass stalks, ginger and pandan. Drink warm or chilled.
Noob Cook Tips
- Pound the lemongrass using a pestle so that the flavour will be released during cooking.
- You can add cooked sago to the drink for added texture.
- You can add squeezed juice of 1-2 limes to the tea for a varied taste.
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Raw sugar made from sugarcane. I think I probably boil it too long after adding the sugar since the sugar doesn’t dissolve easily
Is the sugar light brown? I’m using rock sugar which is clear.
I also use clear rock sugar, since that’s the only kind available locally. Probably the lemongrass I used isn’t of good quality. My lemongrass is sort of brownish green n dirty, so I had to peel almost all the outer layers to expose the white core. N when I smashed the stalk, it released very pungent yellowish citronelle oil… If I also use pandan leaves, the chloropyll from the leaves leaches into the tea, giving it a murky brown colour when the tea boils
Haha i grow these 2 plants side by side in front of my house. They spread very fast and they are versatile too.