Best AI Website MakerTeh Tarik (pulled tea), is a Malaysian tea tradition. It's made from black tea sweetened with condensed milk or evaporated milk mixed with sugar.
The drink, which is typically served in mamak stalls (Indian Muslim restaurants) and kopitiams (coffee shops), has become deeply ingrained in Malaysian culture. It's considered the national drink of Malaysia.
It is also popular in other parts of Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, and Brunei.
Ingredients
3 teaspoon black tea Ceylon loose leaf or use tea bags
4 teaspoon sweetened condensed milk
1 glass warm salt water or a pinch of salt
300 ml hot water
evaporated milk optional
Method
Add hot water and loose tea leaves to a pot or saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Once the water is boiling, reduce the heat to medium and continue simmering and brewing the tea for 5 to 7 minutes. Once done, pour the tea into a cup while straining the leaves.
While the tea is brewing, dissolve about ½ teaspoon of salt in half a cup of hot water. Soak a teaspoon in the salt water. We will use this teaspoon to stir the drink later.
Remove the teaspoon from the salt water, shake off the excess water, and use the spoon to add the sweetened condensed milk to the black tea in the container. Stir well until thoroughly mixed.
To make it easy to perform the 'pulling' part of our teh tarik recipe, pour the tea into a heat-proof container that is easy to lift and pour from (such as one with handles). However, traditionally, the drink is made directly in a cup.
Finally, pour the liquid from the container into a large mug to cement this as a teh tarik recipe instead any other milk tea drink. Then, pour it back into the container. Repeat this process up to 5 times, but no more. This process will give you the right texture of velvety and frothy but not too bubbly.
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How can you "pull" tea?
Teh tarik is repeatedly "pulled" by pouring it back and forth between two containers from a height, creating a thick frothy top. This pulling technique not only cools the tea to drinking temperature but also aerates it, creating a smooth, creamy texture with a distinctive foam layer on top.
There are also teh tarik-making competitions where "tea pullers" showcase their skills in pouring the tea from increasingly impressive heights and distances without spilling, demonstrating both showmanship and technique.
Watch the video below of a Teh Tarik competition, and watch expert "pulling" in action!
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