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Ingredients
2 cupsbrewed green tea (such as jasmine or sencha), cooled
4preserved salty plums (li hing mui, available at Asian grocery stores), pitted
2 tbspsimple syrup or honey
2 tspfresh lemon juice
2 cupsice cubes
Instructions
1
Place 4 pitted preserved salty plums (li hing mui, available at Asian grocery stores) in each serving glass. Using the back of a spoon, lightly crush them to release their juices.
2
Add 2 tbsp simple syrup or honey and 2 tsp fresh lemon juice to each glass and stir to combine with the plum liquid.
3
Fill each glass with 2 cups ice cubes.
4
Pour 2 cups brewed green tea (such as jasmine or sencha), cooled over the ice. Stir gently and taste, adjusting sweetness or sourness as desired.
5
Serve immediately. Leave the plums in the glass for guests to nibble as they drink.
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About Salty Plum Iced Green Tea
Also called: plum green tea, li hing mui green tea, honey plum green tea, iced plum tea
Salty plum iced green tea is a Taiwanese tea-shop drink of green tea poured over crushed preserved salty plums, sweetened and served on ice. Versions are on the menus of Taiwanese tea chains, often as green plum or honey plum green tea, and this recipe is an at-home version that takes ten minutes once the tea is cool.
The salty plums are preserved, dried plums cured with salt, sugar and sometimes licorice. In Hawaii they are sold as li hing mui; Lee Hing is one brand name. Crushing them in the glass releases a sweet, sour and salty liquid that mixes into the tea. Green tea such as jasmine or sencha is brewed and cooled first, and simple syrup or honey and a little lemon balance the salt.
Serving and keeping
Serve at once over plenty of ice, with the plums left in the glass. Brewed tea keeps 2 days in the refrigerator; assemble per glass.
Variations
Honey plum
Use honey instead of simple syrup, dissolved in a splash of warm tea first.
Sparkling
Top each glass with soda water in place of half the tea.
Plum powder rim
Wet the glass rim with lemon and dip it in li hing mui powder.
If it goes wrong
The tea is bitter
Brew green tea with water around 175°F, not boiling, for 2 to 3 minutes, and cool it before pouring in step 4.
Too salty
Use fewer plums per glass in step 1 and add more syrup and lemon; brands vary a lot in salt.
The honey sinks
Dissolve it in the plum liquid and lemon in step 2, before the ice goes in.
Substitutions
preserved salty plums: umeboshi (Japanese pickled plum), one per glass. Saltier and more sour; add more syrup.
simple syrup or honey: agave syrup. Neutral sweetness; dissolves cold.
brewed green tea: oolong tea. Rounder and less grassy.
Questions
What can I use instead of asafoetida in Salty Plum Iced Green Tea?
The entry for Salty Plum Iced Green Tea calls for 4 preserved salty plums (li hing mui, available at Asian grocery stores), pitted. In its place: A little minced garlic and onion, cooked in the oil at the same point, covers the savory role.
Is Salty Plum Iced Green Tea keto-friendly?
A serving of Salty Plum Iced Green Tea carries 15 g of carbohydrate. Against a strict 20 g keto day that is 75 percent of the budget; against a moderate 100 g low-carb day it is 15 percent.
How many calories are in Salty Plum Iced Green Tea?
One serving (the recipe makes 2) is about 60 calories, with 0 g protein, 15 g carbohydrate and 0 g fat, plus 38766 mg sodium. The figures are estimates computed from the ingredient list.
Can I batch Salty Plum Iced Green Tea for a group?
Yes. As written it serves 2. Halved, the green tea drops from 2 cups to 1 cup; doubled, it is 4 cups. Every line in this entry carries its half and double quantity, and the app's batch dial rewrites them inside each step. To make a pitcher, multiply everything and stir over ice at the end.
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