Tea - The Indian Drink - Flavour and Flavoured!

Tea is the thirst quencher for Indians. The drink of China and Japan is also the secret for the longevity of youthoood in Indian race too!!!

Tea known for the voluminous antioxidants, flavanoids and phenols powered with the milder theamine is a rejuvenating drink that does no harm. This do not dehydrate but rehydrate and is good for your heart. India is a tea-drinking country.

I want to list out the different varieties of tea.

Milk Tea and Black Tea: Milk tea is tea brewed in milk with sugar added to taste. Black Tea brewed in water and drunk with sugar or jaggery added to taste. Milk tea has its advantages of milk absorbing all the harmful phenols and other chemicals in the tea, black tea is considered to retain the medicinal properties of tea intact. Black Tea is known to reduce weight. Both use fermented tea leaves. 

Indian Teas:

Masala Chai: It is milk tea mixed with spices like cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. the proportion of spices make the tea is an identity to many households. 

Butter Tea:Butter  tea is also known as Gur Gur. It is made of yak butter, tea and salt. This tea is suitable for high altitudes as it provides a good amount of calories that need to be burnt. 

Kulhad Chai: Tea served in kulhad, clay pots are kulhad tea. There is an alternative version when the kulhad are made hot on tandoori stove, brewed in these hot kulhad and served in cold kulhad. 

Amrut Tulya: Mumbai version of tea made with freshly ground ginger, cardamom and few other spices. The tea is made in brass vessel and is served sweet. 

Mamri tea: Like how coffee is brewed and served fresh, tea leaves can be crushed, torn and curled and served fresh. This is common way of serving fresh industry tea in Assam and Nilgiris. 

Herbal Teas: Herbal teas are tea leaves infused with or homogenised with herbal leaves from various resources like chamomile, shoeflower, lemon, lemongrass and so on. 

Green Tea: Green teas are made from fresh green tea leaves that are not fermented but dried and made into tea leaves. They contain catechin that make them very healthy alternative to black tea. Green tea are infused with lemon, honey, ginger and a number of other spices to give the flavour and taste. 

Tea is such a drink that one finding it "taaza" reviving the spirit.