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Preparation
25 minutes
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Processing
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Tropical fruit tea combines the light fragrant taste of tea with many types of crunchy, refreshing, sweet fruits, creating an extremely effective beverage for quenching thirst during the hot summer. Let’s get cooking with TasteVN!
Ingredients for Tropical Fruit Tea For 1 cup
Oolong tea bags 1 packet Watermelon 1/2 fruit Orange 1 fruit Pineapple 1 fruit Apple 1 fruit Passion fruit 3 fruits Lime 1 fruit Mint leaves A little Sugar 290 gr
Selecting Fresh Ingredients
How to choose fresh watermelon
- Choose watermelons with proportionate heads and tails, round and even. Conversely, avoid those with a large head, small tail, or those shaped like a gourd (narrow in the middle) as these are often not ripe and not tasty.
- Choose watermelons with withered stems as this indicates they are fully ripe; on the other hand, watermelons with fresh green stems may have been picked before ripening and will not be sweet.
- Tap the watermelon with your hand; if you hear a deep, heavy “thump,” it indicates ripeness. If the sound is too light, the watermelon is still unripe.
How to choose fresh and delicious pineapple
- Color: you should choose fruits that are bright yellow from the stem to the tail; there may be a few eyes that are slightly green, but it will still have a certain sweetness.
- Shape: Pineapples that are round and short will have more flesh compared to those that are long.
- Pineapple eyes: Choose fruits with large, sparse eyes because this indicates that the pineapple is ripe and naturally sweet, not soaked in chemicals.
- Aroma: you can try smelling the end of the fruit; if it has a sweet smell, you should buy it. Additionally, avoid fruits that have a slightly sour, fermented smell, as those pineapples are overripe.
- Pineapple crown: The greener the crown, the fresher the pineapple. Overripe pineapples will have dry or brown crowns.
- Touch: Good, fresh pineapples will not be too hard or too soft; when you press your finger into it, it should not feel indented.
How to choose fresh and delicious apples
- Choose apples with shiny skin, bright colors, firm to the touch, and a smooth feel. If you prefer sweet apples, you can select darker-colored ones with tiny white seeds.
- For the apple stem, you should choose fruits with fresh, tightly attached stems.
- Avoid choosing apples that are dull in color, bruised, or infested with pests.
How to choose fresh delicious oranges
- For oranges, you should choose those that are of moderate size, with a shiny skin, a certain weight, feel firm in hand, and have a distinct aroma.
- Avoid choosing those that are too large, have an unusual shape, are too light, have a strange smell or lack a distinct fragrance. Because they may have been injected with chemicals, which are not safe for health.
See details: How to choose fresh delicious oranges
How to choose fresh delicious passion fruit
- For passion fruit, you can choose larger ones, select those with a dark purple skin for better taste, shiny skin, and a firm weight, and choose those with a dry stem to ensure that the pulp inside is ripe.
- Avoid choosing those that are too small, still green, hard, with a fresh stem, or too light. Because they may still be immature, and the pulp inside will be very little or not ripe yet.
How to choose fresh lemons
- Fresh lemons should have shiny, smooth skin, and when pressed, they should have a certain softness to ensure they have a lot of juice, a fairly heavy weight, and the skin should have a distinct fragrance.
- Avoid buying those that are too light, with dull skin, that feel hard and lack elasticity when pressed, and have a strong, pungent smell, indicating that they are spoiled or still immature, which will not yield much juice and will not taste good.
See details: How to choose fresh lemons
How to Make Tropical Fruit Tea
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Prepare and Marinate Passion Fruit
First, cut the passion fruit in half and scoop out the pulp inside. Then, mix the passion fruit with 40g of sugar and marinate for 15 – 30 minutes.
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Cook the Sugar Syrup
Place a pot on the stove, add 250g of sugar and 250ml of water, then stir evenly over medium heat until the sugar dissolves and boils.
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Steep the Tea Bag
Next, put 1 tea bag into a cup with 100ml of hot water and steep the tea for 5 minutes.
Note: To achieve a rich flavor, each tea bag should be used for only one cup! If you have many people, you can steep tea corresponding to the number of cups.
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Making passion fruit jam
Place a new pot on the stove, then add the passion fruit pulp that has been soaked in sugar and stir well over low heat until the mixture thickens.
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Preparing the fruits
First, peel the pineapple and slice the flesh thinly. Next, slice the lemon, orange, and apple thinly.
Then, slice the watermelon similarly and remove the green rind.
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Making fruit tea
Pour the brewed tea into a glass, add 1 tablespoon of passion fruit jam, 1 tablespoon of sugar syrup, a little ice, and stir well to combine the mixture.
Finally, evenly arrange the fruit inside the glass to complete the process.
Tip:
- You can put the tea mixture into a shaker to mix the ingredients more thoroughly.
- To prevent the tea from becoming bitter and astringent, be sure to remove the tea bag after brewing before adding other ingredients to the tea!
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Final product
The tropical fruit tea is refreshing, with a fragrant taste of oolong tea, a sweet and sour flavor from the passion fruit jam, complemented by crunchy fruit, making it extremely effective for cooling off.
So you have completed the delicious tropical fruit tea, effectively cooling! TasteVN hopes you can successfully make this super simple drink right at home!
*Reference images and recipes from the YouTube channel Ghiền Nấu Ăn.
