This recipe comes from Italian chef, Giada De Laurentiis – she may be Italian and cooks a lot of Italian goodies but she also enjoys Thai food. Once again I was watching the Food Network channel while doing my morning workout and watched her make this tea. It just sounded and looked so good; I mean black tea with aromatic anise pods and yummy sweetened condensed milk – all three flavors came through perfectly. A delicious, cold beverage…
Thai Iced Tea
- 5 cups water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 5 whole star anise pods
- 10 black tea bags
- 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
- ice (made with some of the tea – I used large silicone ice cube trays)
- mint leaves for garnish
Bring the water, sugar and star anise to a boil in a medium saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the tea bags. Allow to steep for about 1 hour. Discard the star anise and tea bags and whisk in the condensed milk. Pour some into ice cube trays and refrigerate the rest in a pitcher for at least 1 hour.
Add the tea ice cubes to glasses and pour the tea into each glass. Garnish with fresh mint leaves or lemon balm would be good too.
Recipe by cookingwithauntjuju.com
It looks terrific:)
Thanks – they were very tasty 🙂
Looks so delicious – a perfect summer drink!
Thanks Sheryl – I let the tea chill overnight and it was nice and cold!
Oh my oh my! These look incredibly easy but sounds heavenly… perfect refresher for a hot summer day, or when you have friends over! Thanks for sharing, love it!
Thank you – very easy to make and almost like sipping a dessert!
Ok, SOLD! XD
It looks amazing Judi and so refreshing in this HOT weather! 🙂
Thanks Linda – very, very good and the tea was perfect for this time of the year 🙂
Lovely refreshing drink Judi. Should go so well with the Thai dinner I recently rustled up ☺
Thank you Ana – the tea would be perfect with a Thai meal – we just sipped them while enjoying the nice weather 🙂
This looks delicious Judi! I can imagine that they would be perfect for sipping on a beautiful day!
I had to control myself and not “gulp” it down Julie! Hey, did you see the recipe before this on Caramelized Onion Sourdough Biscuits – I was thinking of you and Angie 🙂
No but that sounds wonderful! I’ll check it out. Thanks Judi!
I too love gaida show.. Grt chiller for the weather
Thanks so much – I chilled them overnight so they were nice and cold!
Very interesting! Love the ice cubes!
Thanks – the ingredients surprised me but the results were great! The silicone molds are nice and don’t water down the tea 🙂
Wow Judi, anything with condensed milk in it has to be good.
You got that right Loretta 🙂
Thai iced tea is my favorite and this sounds delicious!
Thanks – my first time trying it and it sure was icy cold and good 🙂
perfect for summer! so refreshing.
Yes, too bad I had to share the tea with friends as I could have consumed the whole pitcher 🙂
Thai iced tea is great, isn’t it – I really should try making it, and like your way of making some into ice cubes too.
Yes Caroline – I really liked this tea – important to have it chilled and the ice cubes made sure the tea was not diluted 🙂
Never tried thai iced tea and yours looks nectarous. ….thanx for the recipe aunt Juju. ..
Thank you Chitra 🙂