How to Brew Green Tea

Name: How to Brew Green Tea
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 tsp Green tea leaves; 1 Hot water; 1 both about the same size 2 tea pots (or 1 tea pot and a large cup)

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I actually used to be really bad at brewing tea. It was usually too strong or too bitter, but I learned how to brew tea properly at the store where I work, and it was a revelation!!

This is how they do it at the restaurant where I work. If you are from a tea growing area, or you have studied tea ceremony procedures, you may think it's blasphemous! Please forgive me. But the tea that is brewed this way has a beautiful color, and is delicious and and not bitter at all. Plus, it doesn't get too diluted even if you add ice. Recipe by Tomonchicchi

I actually used to be really bad at brewing tea. It was usually too strong or too bitter, but I learned how to brew tea properly at the store where I work, and it was a revelation!!

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I actually used to be really bad at brewing tea. It was usually too strong or too bitter, but I learned how to brew tea properly at the store where I work, and it was a revelation!!

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Ingredients

1 serving

1 tspGreen tea leaves
1Hot water
1both about the same size 2 tea pots (or 1 tea pot and a large cup)

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Steps

1

Boil some water and prepare 2 tea pots ready.
2

Put 2 "tea spoons" (or 1 regular teaspoon, 5 ml) of tea leaves in one of the tea pots. (Although you should adjust the amount of tea leaves as you'd like).
3

Pour hot water in the tea pot without the tea leaves. The hot water should be slightly cooler than boiling, or the temperature of hot water from a hot water dispensing pot. If you don't have one of those, just boil water and leave it for a while to cool down a little.
4

Pour the hot water from the 2nd teapot into the 1st teapot with the tea leaves.
5

Leave for a while (just count up to 10).
6

Take the inner strainer out of the teapot with the leaves, and set it in the 2nd teapot.
7

Pour the tea from teapot no. 1 into teapot no. 2.
8

Take the inner strainer out of teapot no. 2 again, and put it back in teapot no. 1.
9

By removing the strainer with the tea leaves, the tea in the pot won't keep brewing (and thus darkening and becoming more bitter).
10

Since there are no tea leaves in the teapot with the tea, you don't need to strain it. Just pour it straight from the teapot into cups for delicious tea.
11

You can get another pot of tea from the same leaves ('2nd tea') and it will still taste good. You can use any type of green tea you like.