Tea made from maple leaves: how to cook? Fermented tea from maple leaves

How to ferment maple leaves and make delicious tea from them?

Maple juice and syrup are the favorite ingredients for preparing a variety of dishes in Canada and America. At us these products are rare visitors, and already about tea from клиновых leaves, generally very few people heard. We will tell about this tasty and useful drink. Let's share how to properly ferment the maple leaves and make delicious tea from them.

Maple leaf tea: fermentation

Supermarket shelves burst from beautiful packages and boxes with a variety of teas. Often you have to be disappointed in the quality of the drink, as modern teas are literally "stuffed" with synthetic flavor enhancers, dyes and other "yeshki", which improve the presentation of the drink, but adversely affect the quality of the product.

Therefore, many prefer to stock organic organic tea, prepared with their own hands. Grass, flowers, stems, shoots, leaves, buds of many plants allow you to prepare delicious teas, which have healing and strengthening properties.

Natural vegetable tea is very useful

It is not difficult to prepare tea from maple leaves. You should know only some of the secrets and features of making this tasty and healing drink.

Maple is one of the most widespread trees in Russia. There are more than 20 species of this tree. The most common maple is acicular or Russian. The tree is found in the urban park zone and surrounding forests.

Maple Leaf Maple

How to properly harvest maple leaves?

• Maple leaves harvested in the first half of summer. At this time, the leaves have not yet acquired a coarse consistency, but have a fragrance( when rubbed between the fingers), juicy and tender.
• You should not collect leaves from trees growing inside megacities. Exhaust automobile gases, industrial emissions and other pollution can be deposited in leaves and be a source of intoxication.
• Maple leaves are best harvested in the forest, away from roads and urban settlements.
• Do not completely break off the leaves from one tree, this can damage green plantations and even lead to the death of trees.
• Green leaves should be rinsed with running water, but do not soak them in water.
• Leave the leaves on a dry, clean cloth for several hours to dry, avoiding sunlight.

Granular Maple Leaf Tea

How useful is maple tea? Maple tea has a diuretic and antiseptic effect. Infusion of brewed maple leaves is used for kidney and bladder diseases.

Maple tea promotes bile secretion and stimulates liver function.

Salicylic and gallic acids, anthocyanins, tannins, flavonoids relieve inflammatory processes, have a wound healing and antipyretic effect.

Tea from maple leaves contains ascorbic acid and vitamin E. The drink enhances immunity and strengthens the body.

Maple infusion has antiviral and antibacterial properties. Tea is indicated for seasonal colds.

The baked leaves of the maple relieve the depressed state, tension and restore the nervous system. Tea reduces aggression and has a calming effect.

Tea made from maple leaves improves the energy capabilities of the body.

Fermented tea in pellets

Why do you need fermentation of maple leaves?

• If you brew maple leaves like ordinary tea, they retain useful qualities, but the taste of this infusion is not very pronounced and has a straw-grassy hue and aroma.
• To obtain a strong and bright taste, maple leaves must undergo a fermentation process. During this period, maple juice emerges from the vacuoles of the cells. Biochemical processes occurring in sheet plates contribute to the formation of a new quality of leaves that have a unique aroma and color.
• Knowing the stages of preparing fermented tea, you can prepare the leaves for future use and enjoy the magnificent aroma of maple drink.

The process of fermentation of leaves

The stages of fermentation of maple leaves

1. The collected maple leaves, if necessary, are rinsed from dust and laid on the tissues for 2-3 hours for withering. At this stage of the process, raw materials should not be dried. Leaflets should become lethargic and lose some moisture.
2. With a large number of leaves, it is necessary to scroll the raw material through a meat grinder. But it is better to roll each maple leaf with the palms of the tube. In this case, the integrity of the leaf plate is violated and cell juice begins to be released.
3. Prepared in this way, the leaves are laid out in a glass, ceramic or enameled dishes and covered with a wet, wrung out towel. At this stage, you can not allow the top layer of leaves to dry. Periodically, you should moisten the towel. The fermentation process should occur at a temperature above 25 degrees for three days.
4. As a result, the sheet mass is obtained in a dark brown color and acquires a pleasant fruity aroma. Next, the tea is laid on baking sheets and placed in an oven for drying at a temperature of 90 degrees with the oven open. During drying, the leaves should be turned over to evenly dry the raw materials.
5. Properly dried tea should have a pleasant aroma of elite tea, dark color and crumbles well.

IMPORTANT: To obtain green tea, the raw material is dried at a temperature of 60 degrees and below. High-quality black tea can be obtained by heating the leaf mass to 150 degrees.

Tea granules and brewed tea

Express method of fermentation of maple leaves

To speed up the process of fermentation of tea, you can use the express method.

• Grind maple leaves and spread into a container.
• Cover and rinse for minimum 30 minutes before changing color.
• Place the sheet on a frying pan and dry until ready.
• Prepared tea grinded through a colander and transferred to dry clean jars.

IMPORTANT: To obtain granulated tea, the leaf mass is passed through a meat grinder before drying. And for large leaf tea, leaf plates should be wrung into the tubes with palms.

How to store fermented tea?

• Prepared maple leaf tea is stored in ceramic vessels, metal or glass jars, in
• foil packagings. Packagings must not allow light and air to pass.
• Packages and jars should be small in size.
• Not allowed to get moisture

With proper storage, maple tea retains its excellent taste and aroma properties for a year.

How to make tea from maple leaves?

Brewed tea

Brew maple tea in the usual way. Recall the main stages of brewing tea.

1. The teapot is rinsed 2-3 times with steep boiling water.
2. Lay tea in the calculation: 1-2 tablespoons for a cup of tea.
3. Pour tea with boiling water.
4. The teapot is covered with a towel and infused for 10-15 minutes.
5. The tea is poured into cups and served.

IMPORTANT: Maple tea can be brewed 2-3 times. At the same time, tea does not lose its useful and taste properties, and each time is revealed in a new way.

Flower petals give tea flavor and new flavor notes

Monochay from maple leaves is good in itself. It has a rich color and rich strong taste. To achieve different flavors and shades, maple tea can be blended with flower petals: cornflower, marigold, marigold, apple, violet tri-colored, rose, jasmine.

You can add dried fruits of black currant, cherry, raspberry, apples, chokeberry, strawberry, strawberry. A remarkable and unique taste acquires maple tea in combination with dried leaves of fruit trees and berry bushes.

• So apple leaves give tea a sweet taste and apple flavor.
• Cherry leaves saturate the tea with a strong astringent aroma and give the drink a very pleasant aftertaste.
• Ashberry ashberry leaves strengthen the color of the tea, giving tartness with sourness.
• The leaves of the pear slightly off the main aroma of maple tea, adding a special depth to the drink and leaving the sweetness of the aftertaste.
• Strawberry and strawberry leaves supplement tea with its unusual aroma and sweet taste.
• The leaves of black currant give tea a special flavor and a bit of sourness.

In addition, these compositions of leaves, flowers and fruits, will enrich maple tea with their useful vitamin complexes, and therefore, will contribute to the recovery of the body.

Herbal teas

You can experiment and select your favorite compositions of herbal teas cooked alone at home. Each time you can get an unusually tasty organic and healthy tea.

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