Brew Japanese barley tea
Soaking time of fresh tea: 2 minutes and a half.
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons of fluffy tea; 2 cups of hot water not just boiled (about 80℃ or boiled for 5 minutes).
Soaking time of Yulu: 1 min to 1 min and a half.
Ingredients: 7 teaspoons of fluffy tea; 2 cups of hot water not just boiled (about 60℃ or let it stand for 20 minutes after boiling).
Soaking time of roasted tea, brown rice tea or brown rice matcha: 30 seconds.
Ingredients: 3 teaspoons of fluffy tea; 2 cups of boiling water.
method of work
1. Put the tea in the teapot.
2. Inject water (adjust the water temperature according to the tea), and soak according to the different tea soaking time described above. As the quantity, water temperature and soaking time of different teas are slightly different from what I have explained above, please make tea according to the specific instructions on the tea packaging.
3. Set 4 teacups. Fill each cup with one eighth of a cup of tea, and then one eighth after one lap. Repeat the above steps until all the green tea is poured. The reason for this is to provide each guest with the same concentration of tea. Tea should only be poured into half or two-thirds of the teacup. Don't leave a drop of liquid in the teapot, because tea will become bitter after cooling.
4. You can soak the soaked tea for a second time. Just repeat the second and third steps.
Cold barley tea
Put a bag of barley tea in cold water and put it in the refrigerator overnight. Barley tea will be fine the next morning (different brands of barley tea need different amounts of water and soaking time. So please make tea according to the instructions on the package.
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Efficacy and function of barley tea
According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Barley is sweet in taste, flat in nature, and has the functions of eliminating food bloating, resolving food stagnation, calming stomach and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, invigorating qi and regulating middle warmer, broadening chest and atmosphere, tonifying deficiency and inferiority, strengthening blood vessels, benefiting color, strengthening five internal organs and dissolving cereals. Treat urine stranguria; Treat the wheat awn into the eye; Treat the elderly with polydipsia, uncertain drinking water and dry tongue; Controlling water and gas diseases; Clearing summer heat in summer; Treat acute pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis and throat abscess. " Therefore, drinking barley tea often is very beneficial to human health.
1. Weight loss effect
Barley tea has the effects of cooling and detoxicating, invigorating spleen and losing weight, clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, removing fishy smell, removing greasy food and helping digestion, which can eliminate the feeling of chest tightness and abdominal distension and enhance gastric motility. White-collar workers who sit in front of computers for a long time may wish to drink several cups of barley tea every day. After a period of time, you will find that not only your gastrointestinal function has improved, but constipation has gradually disappeared, and the whole person is refreshed. It is really "killing two birds with one stone".
2. Spleen invigorating and digestion promoting effects
Barley has the functions of invigorating spleen, promoting digestion, removing heat and quenching thirst, lowering qi and promoting diuresis. Barley tea is mainly used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, strengthening the spleen and losing weight, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, removing fishy smell, greasy food, helping digestion, moistening skin and blackening hair.
Step 3 clear away heat and promote fluid production
Barley tea can relieve heat and thirst. Use barley to decoct water tea, clear away heat and produce fluid, and relieve thirst.
Step 4 Adjust digestion and absorption
Barley tea belongs to coarse grains. Dietary fibres in coarse grains can adjust the digestion and absorption function, thus delaying the absorption of nutrients. Dietary fibres can also feel full and avoid excessive intake of heat, fat and carbohydrates.
Taboos for drinking barley tea
1. People with a bad stomach are not suitable for drinking.
If people with a bad stomach drink barley tea, they will feel upset in the stomach, and in severe cases, they may have diarrhea.
2. Pregnant women should drink carefully.
It is not suitable for pregnant women to drink barley tea, because it may cause milk return.
3. Overnight barley tea can't be drunk.
It is best to drink barley tea when it is brewed, and don't drink barley tea overnight or after several days, which is extremely unfavorable to your health.
4. It is not advisable to drink barley tea on an empty stomach.
It is best not to drink barley tea on an empty stomach, which will stimulate the stomach and cause stomachache. It is best to eat something before drinking.
After understanding the benefits of barley tea, I think many friends who want to lose weight in summer will choose to drink barley tea to control their appetite. What needs to be reminded is not to drink barley tea on an empty stomach, so even if you want to lose weight, you should eat something before drinking barley tea to avoid hurting your stomach.
Skills of purchasing high-quality barley tea
Barley tea is a kind of tea for many people who are pursuing health. First of all, it is also a kind of tea that pregnant women can drink. So how to buy high-quality barley tea? In fact, there are skills, mainly including six points:
1, rough look. When buying barley tea, you should first glance at it and get an impression in your mind. Then, according to common sense, you can judge whether the barley tea you see is over-fried, because you can't choose over-fried barley tea when buying high-quality barley tea.
2. Look closely. High-quality food is carefully selected, because if you want to buy high-quality barley tea, you can look carefully and observe whether the food mixed with it has too many impurities (such as stones and sand, etc.). Too much barley tea in these magazines does not belong to the category of high-quality barley tea.
3. Choose barley tea with small particles. When buying barley tea, grab a handful at hand and look at its particle size. Choose the one with small particles and crushed ones, and the particles should be full and uniform.
4, correctly determine whether there is a dyeing component. Take a little and knead it in the palm of your hand a few times. If there is color in your hand, it means there is dye in it (because sweat can wash out some dye).
5, smell the fragrance and know the goods. Smell barley tea, high-quality barley tea, the taste should be a faint burnt fragrance. Smell its fragrance, the aroma is fresh and not mixed up. Look at its color, neither too deep nor too shallow. It tastes pure but not bitter, and it is sweet and refreshing.
6. watch tea soup. When brewing barley tea, it is best to take a proper amount of tea and wrap it in a small sand cloth so that the tea will not float on it. If you soak it for the first time, you can put less water in the water and soak it in the tea bag. Because the taste and color of barley tea have not been soaked for the first time, after soaking for about 3 minutes, pour out the water. When waiting for the second time, we should carefully observe its color. High-quality barley tea is a slightly dark and transparent brown.