2 ways to make Hanoi plum tea (North plum) refreshing to quench summer thirst

Prepare the ingredients

Wash the plums with diluted salt water, then remove them to drain.

Using a knife, cut the plum in half and remove the pit. Then, put all the plum flesh into a bowl.

Cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice from one half, and slice the remaining part for decoration.

Making tea

Prepare 2.2 liters of water, put it into a pot to boil, then add 100g of black tea and stir well. Cover and steep the tea for 30 minutes.

After steeping, filter out the tea leaves and keep the tea liquid.

Mixing dough and boiling pearls

Put 230g of tapioca flour into a large bowl, add 100ml of boiling water and mix well.

Then pour in 60ml of kiwi syrup and 1/2 tablespoon of water into the bowl and mix well. Next, use your hands to knead the dough until it sticks together into a homogeneous mass, then let it rest for 30 minutes.

Now shape the dough into small round balls. Boil a pot of water, drop the pearls in, and cook until they float to the surface. Once the pearls rise, remove them and place them in a bowl of cold water to soak for about 5 minutes, then drain.

Cook sugar syrup and brew tea

Add 250g of sugar, 2 tablespoons of water, and the juice of 1/2 lemon into a pan, and stir well. When the sugar boils and turns into a thick mixture, turn off the heat.

Then pour the freshly cooked sugar mixture into the brewed tea and stir well for the sugar to blend into the tea.

Now add 70ml of blueberry syrup, 2 slices of lemon, tapioca pearls, and plums into a glass and then pour in the tea.

So our plum tea is ready. Let’s enjoy it, adding some ice makes it incredibly refreshing.

Finished Product

Plum tea has a very fragrant tea smell, with a sweet taste from sugar and a slight sourness from plums and lemons, extremely delicious and easy to drink. Just one cup and you will already feel refreshed. Especially, plum tea contains a lot of vitamin C that is very good for the health of everyone in your family.

Prepare the ingredients

Wash the plums thoroughly with water, peel them, and then cut them into small pieces, removing the pits.

For the passion fruit, use a spoon to scrape out all the pulp and filter out some of the seeds.

Marinate the plums with sugar

Add all the chopped plums into a bowl, then add 300 – 500 grams of sugar, mix well, and store in the fridge for 4 – 5 hours (or overnight) for the sugar to dissolve and soak into the plums.

Cook the plum jam

After the soaking time, put the plum jam into a pan and place it on the stove, cooking over low heat for 45 – 60 minutes until the jam thickens. Squeeze in a piece of lime to prevent the jam from crystallizing, and it’s done.

Make passion fruit pearls

2 passion fruits after filtering out some seeds are boiled, then add 1/2 cup of tapioca flour and stir until the flour no longer sticks to your hands, then shape into round balls and boil on low heat for about 15 minutes.

After boiling, marinate the pearls with 2 tablespoons of sugar to add sweetness and make the pearls softer.

Make a cup of plum tea

You put 1 tablespoon of cooked plum jam, 1 tablespoon of sugar (can adjust to taste), 150 ml of tea extract (use tea bags or loose tea), 1 kumquat, and finally add ice and shake well.

Finished product

The plum season only comes once a year, so why wait any longer to treat yourself and your family to a delicious drink with a sweet and sour flavor, refreshing for this summer. Try making it right away!