Making spiced lemongrass tea is a no brainer. As long as you have the ingredients at home (which are super easy to find and buy), you can always make one for yourself – and for your loved ones. The lemongrass tea has this distinctive and unique smell. Not to mention that it also offers a lot of potential health benefits, especially if you consume it on a daily basis.
The Benefits of Spiced Lemongrass Tea
One of the winning element of this tea is the combination of natural and potent ingredients. To make it you will need not only lemongrass, but also cardamom and star anise. Each of them has their own characteristics and health benefits. But in an overall view, consuming the tea can improve your well-being naturally.
What’s the most ideal way to enjoy this tea? Make it fresh. Of course, you can always buy the already (and commercially) prepared lemongrass tea bag, but if you want to enjoy the natural taste, you need to make it fresh. Getting the stalk is easy. Just go to Asian grocery store and you can find one.
The general benefits of the tea are:
- It helps with bloating. The tea has diuretic effect, meaning that your body would be ‘forced’ to urinate more often. This can be relieving when you are bloated from water retention, which typically happens during PMS.
- It reduces (bad) cholesterol. In Africa, lemongrass is used as a medicine to treat coronary heart issue. Some studies have suggested that drinking lemongrass tea can reduce the cholesterol level.
- It helps with infection. Lemongrass is known to have naturally anti-fungal and anti-bacterial trait. When you drink the tea regularly, you can prevent such health problems.
About Cardamom
A lot of people believe that this spice can help to control blood pressure while helping with digestion at the same time. Thanks to its high level of antioxidants, you can improve your immune system and be free from morning sickness. Not only cardamom is a good addition to your food, but you can also add it into your beverage.
About Star Anise
As a spice, star anise has its own unique trait. It has quite potent licorice-like smell with pungent and distinctive taste. The spice has been used for centuries not only to create unique beverage, but also as medicine. It’s believed that it can fight off microbial infections and cancerous cells. Not only it can improve cardiovascular health, but it also helps to regular the blood sugar. When you consume it regularly, you can improve your own system from within without the needs of chemical drugs or supplements.
How to Make Spiced Lemongrass Tea
It doesn’t take forever to fix yourself a big glass of spiced lemongrass tea. Not only you only need around 20 to 25 minutes to get it done, but you can also enjoy the versatility of drinking it warm or cold.
Getting the basic ingredients is also easy as they are part of daily herbs and spices. You will need:
- A tea bag (one would be enough)
- Two star anise
- Two lemongrass stalks. If they are quite long, you can cut them and then smash them.
- Three cardamom
- Two rock candies or rock sugar
Make sure that you follow these steps to make flawless outcome.
- Boil water with the cardamom, star anise, and the lemongrass stalk
- After it boils down, put the tea bag in. Just dip it and wait until the color changes. Once the color changes, remove the bag. Add in the rock sugar.
- Mix them well.
- Feel free to drink the tea warm. You just have to wait until it is warm enough. But if you want to enjoy iced tea, add ice cubes into a glass and then pour the tea.
- There you have it! Your own refreshing and healthy lemongrass tea.
Final Words
All in all, drinking the tea has its own benefits. Not only you can boost your system, but you can also enjoy such a refreshing beverage. By looking at the simple steps of making spiced lemongrass tea, why don’t you start making one on your own?