Each sip tastes of milk and salt and cereal – but the drink also has a remarkable drying effect in the mouth, thanks to a healthy dose of naturally astringent green tea.
This is absolutely the strangest tea I have ever sipped.
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Each sip tastes of milk and salt and cereal – but the drink also has a remarkable drying effect in the mouth, thanks to a healthy dose of naturally astringent green tea.
This is absolutely the strangest tea I have ever sipped.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups milk
- 1/4-1/2 tsp salt , optional
- 1 Tbsp green tea
Millet “garnish” (optional)
- 1/4 cup millet
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 1 tsp all-purpose flour
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Instructions
- Add the milk, water, and salt to a saucepan and heat until just below the simmer.
- Add the green tea (in a tea ball) and let steep over the flame for 4-6 minutes, or to desired strength.
- Remove the tea and increase the heat so that the mixture just barely simmers.
- Meanwhile, toast millet in a skillet over medium heat in butter.
- Dust with flour and continue toasting until golden brown.
- Add the toasted millet to the tea mixture and cook 15 minutes or until the millet is tender (check your package instructions – this could take up to 30 minutes).
- Right before serving, check your seasonings and add some extra salt, if desired.
- Ladle steaming hot tea into everyone’s cup (or bowl), being sure to give everyone a healthy amount of millet (which will most likely be settled on the bottom of the pot).