Tea in Italian. spiced tea latte recipe

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Everyone knows about caffe latte, but the tea drink of the same name is no less popular in Italy. He deserved love for himself not only with an excellent light and pleasant taste, but also with useful properties. Let's find out if it's difficult to make chai latte on your own.

Why is chai latte famous?

We know very little about Italian tea drinking traditions. It's time to get to know them better. Latte is a traditional Italian tea drink. Its obligatory components are milk and black (or green) tea.

Italians can drink this tea all day long - for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But according to the rules, it should be drunk in the morning instead of milk or coffee.

Benefits of Italian tea

At home, latte is considered a drink of exceptional utility. But are the Italians exaggerating? Doctors claim that in exaltation useful properties there is not a shadow of exaggeration of such tea.

What is the secret?

• Latte is rich in vitamins A, groups B, E, C, useful trace elements (calcium, magnesium) and nutrients. It can be drunk even by lactating women.
• Antioxidants, which are part of green tea, slow down the aging process and neutralize free radicals. According to recent studies, regular consumption of green tea reduces the likelihood of developing cancerous tumors.
• The drink activates metabolic processes, favorably affects the processes of digestion.
• Latte increases the rate of immunoglobulin production.
• Tea excites the nervous system (however, it does not overwork it), so it perfectly invigorates in the morning, gives strength to work all day.
• Drinking tea latte is pleasant from a psychological and aesthetic point of view. It is fragrant, soft and at the same time very light and airy.
• The only contraindication to the use of such a drink is the individual intolerance of one of the components.

Recipes, cooking secrets

There are several ways to prepare a latte, but the ingredients remain the same in almost all: tea (green or black), milk and spices.

First recipe

• First, prepare the necessary components: 2 peas of allspice, cardamom, a teaspoon of chopped ginger, a little black pepper, 2 cinnamon sticks, half a liter of milk, sugar to taste.
• Mix cardamom, sugar, pepper (black and allspice), ginger.
• Pour the mixture of spices with 50 ml of water, put on low heat, bring to a boil.
• When the water with spices boils, add milk and cinnamon, previously broken into pieces.
• Cook over low heat for about 4 minutes.
• Rinse the teapot with boiling water to warm it up. After that, put the required amount of tea into it.
• Pour the tea leaves of black or green tea with hot milk and spices.
• Tightly close the lid of the kettle, wrap it with a towel. We insist 5 minutes.

Second recipe

• We prepare the following ingredients: a glass of milk, a glass of water, a teaspoon of cinnamon, a little cardamom, a teaspoon of green tea, a little thyme, a pinch of star anise, cloves, nutmeg, half a teaspoon of ginger, sugar.
• Pour milk, water, tea, sugar and spices into a small saucepan.
• We put the saucepan on low heat and bring the liquid to a boil.
• Cook for 6 minutes, stirring carefully. If some spice is missing, add it during the cooking process.

Strain the tea before drinking.

The very first time in Italy, until I learned to speak Italian fluently, I was tormented by the question: "Do you want tea normal or hot?" I knew how to say tè caldo - hot tea, and I pronounce it as clearly as possible when ordering. And they continued to ask me with pressure: so hot or still NORMAL?

Unfortunately, there is no normal tea in Italy. I did not see a teapot in any house, in any supermarket I did not see loose tea in packs. Tea is sometimes brewed in bags, and water is boiled in a saucepan, and the tea bag is thrown right there so that no one has the opportunity to adjust the strength of the tea. Well, and also, of course, to wait until he cools off talking, and drink barely warm, pale yellow water. What for? Well, someone convinced the Italians that tea is healthy. It is also very useful to drink chamomile (also from a bag, brewed according to the same method) - to calm the nerves and fall asleep better. In my opinion, only doctors know about the antiseptic properties of chamomile. And non-doctors drink chamomile to calm down. If you remember about valerian, then you need to know that valerian is not good for calming Italian nerves. If only because it is a seasoning for meat, that's how. Tea by weight can be bought in specialized stores - where Italians buy coffee. And it took me a year to find a tea that you can drink without wincing. Teapots can also be found on sale, however, they, as a rule, have a decorative, rather than practical purpose - otherwise, how can one explain that the contents of these teapots do not fundamentally pour out of the spout? I had an idea to walk around the glassware store with a bottle of water and check teapots for functionality before buying. But the Italian sellers did not appreciate my idea. In the end, I solved the problem, found an English store and thus confirmed a simple hypothesis: since the British know a lot about tea, then they must have human teapots in teapots.

But they make great coffee here. All foreigners living in Italy admit to each other that it was worth coming to this country just for the sake of Italian coffee. The Italians themselves drink coffee not only for breakfast, on the way to work, but also after lunch, and even after dinner. Coffee after a hearty dinner is also accompanied by a glass of grappa. Grappa and coffee after being fed for slaughter for four hours is just great! Somehow, all this food immediately fits in the stomach, the eyes no longer close, and it is quite possible to walk home from the guests. And fall asleep in your own bed. Without any chamomile, by the way.

Coffee is also an occasion for the manifestation of patriotism. Several times Sandro came to Nice for me and never once let me drink coffee and smoke a cigarette in peace. Smoke on the way, he said, and literally stuffed me into the car. At first, I attributed this strangeness to the clouding of the mind that occurs during the first love. Then she became indignant and demanded coffee. Let's have coffee in Ventimiglia, he said, and pushed me into the car. But I want coffee now, I said. And now we will quickly go, he said and put pressure on the gas. Well, here it began to dawn on my mind, clouded by love, that there was some good reason to drink coffee not in Nice, but in some Ventimiglia unknown to me. The reason turned out to be very simple: Italian coffee tastes better. And Ventimiglia was just the first Italian town along the way. And I thought that there were some architectural monuments, old cafes or other beauties. No, it was just good coffee. And it was more than normal for Sandro to endure half an hour in order to drink un caffè come si deve - that is, coffee as it should be, the way it should be.

It must be said here that for some time I did not have the opportunity to fully appreciate the taste of Italian coffee, because even after meeting Sandro, I still drank Americano coffee by inertia for quite some time. In Italy, they looked at me badly when I ordered such coffee. But a client is a client, and besides, he does not speak our language. In general, they clearly thought: well, what to take from her, from the poor, let her drink her own swill. With mournful faces, they poured a standard portion of espresso into a cappuccino cup, put it in front of me, waited for a while - what if I change my mind? - and then with a sigh they brought me boiled water in a milk jug. And they looked at Sandro with sympathy, of course. And Sandro once again showed great worldly wisdom. He did not insist or explain, he just waited for me to mature. And he turned out to be right. In the end - almost a year after we met - out of curiosity, I decided to drink what the Italians call caffè normale, and ... after that, it never occurred to me in my life to order coffee in a large mug. But I did it at the wrong time - summer and the summer season were coming in Russia, and now in various Russian cafes I had to demand espresso for myself, then invariably say that this is not quite espresso, that normal coffee should be much thicker and more concentrated , asking for a ristretto, saying that this ristretto is not a ristretto, but a cafe normale. And the scenes, of course, were repeated: they looked at me badly, at my companions - with sympathy, and so on ...

I found a great article, I'll repost it in its entirety, highlighting my comments in Italic (by the way, you know that italic font is called Italic after the Leaning Tower of Pisa?)

1. Meals strictly according to the schedule. The schedule is as follows: lunch from 12:00 to 14:30. Dinner from 19:30 to 22:30. The restaurant closes between lunch and dinner.

Yes, I wrote about this in the article "". Some restaurants are still open until late at night. until one or two, but they are closed during the day.

2. Italian breakfast is a cup of coffee and a croissant in a cafe or coffee and biscuits at home.

3. Italians eat pizza as a separate dish; in a restaurant, everyone orders one at a time and eats it whole. Pizza does not go well with other dishes.

At what a portion is a whole pizza, for two, or pizza for a company is rarely ordered.

4. Chicken pasta doesn't exist.

Yes, I've never seen or heard of it. We serve it with chicken and prunes, for example.

5. Caesar salad is an American cuisine, they don't know about it in Italy.

Well, they know if they travel a lot, but they wonder why it is considered Italian. We must also ask the Greeks if they know about the Greek salad.

6. Liquid soups are not eaten in Italy. “Soup” in Italian is a porridge-like boiled dish, without liquid.

Yes! Bread maybe, or even a mussel brew tomato sauce. This is soup. Our soups are "brodo", but they don't serve this in restaurants, they can cook it at home. And be sure to sprinkle some parmesan on top.

7. Antipasto is not the name of a dish, but the Italian word for “snack”.

Translated as: before pasta, that is, what is eaten before the main course

8. Coffee is drunk after sweet, not together.

Yes, I wrote about this in the article ""

9. Tea is drunk when the stomach or throat hurts.

Yeah, the bar does not always understand what you want from them when you order tea. And before going to bed they drink chamomile.

10. It is customary to drink food with wine, beer or water. Juice or Coca-Cola in the restaurant may not be.

Indeed, many are surprised that there are no juices in the restaurant. It's just not customary to spoil food with their tastes.

11. For each type of sauce - a certain type of pasta. The “choose the pasta you like” option is not Italian.

But in general, you can ask for penne instead of spaghetti, for example, but really the sauces are thought out in such a way as to be best combined with a certain type of pasta.

12. The rule “white wine for fish, red wine for meat” is only half true. A more correct option would be “white wine - universal, red - for meat”.

Although, I have never seen white meat served or ordered.

13. Pasta is eaten with a fork and knife, not a fork and spoon.

Yes! Either I haven’t been to restaurants where they serve spaghetti with a spoon, or they don’t serve it with spaghetti in Italy. And, oh horror, spaghetti can be wound and cut with a knife!

14. Only non-fish dishes are sprinkled with grated cheese.

You can run into a heavy judgmental look by asking for parmesan for a fish dish. Wrote about it in an article