A true tea enthusiast may find ways to add tea to every aspect of their cooking. And while we'll understand if you don't want to go quite that far, we do have a few suggestions for other ways you might use tea in your cooking.
We've included five additional kitchen uses for tea bags to help you get started with your tea experimentation. We've also given you a few ideas for what to do with the used tea bags you've produced.
Tea-Based Stock
Well, the more traditional options for preparing stocks tend to include scraps of chicken, cattle, pork, or even vegetables. But utilizing your favorite teas can be a fun way to make light, fragrant broths that will help improve your favorite soups.
Tea-Based Spice Rubs
Although a tea-based rub initially seems like a bizarre notion, tea bags are actually rather similar to pre-portioned spice packets. Opening a couple of bags of your preferred blend and combining it with salt, chili powder, and other preferred spices will result in a tasty rub that will have people clamoring for your barbecue recipe.
Tea Ice Cream
Tea-based ice cream was mentioned in our compilation of creative ways to use chai mix, but chai isn't the only flavor that works well when combined with other ingredients to create a lovely, creamy dessert. You may experiment with some unusual dessert combinations at home with a nice handcrafted pint of earl grey or rooibos ice cream, and you can impress your family with your newfound originality.
Tea-Infused Bread
What could be superior to tea cakes? tea-infused cakes! You can easily create a variety of tea-infused loaves because tea is already a dry ingredient. For a more herbal, fragrant bread, you may, for instance, add tea powder or tea leaves to the dry ingredients. You might also use tea instead of the water specified in the recipe, if you'd prefer.
Tea Brines and Marinades
It makes sense to start with salt, water, and occasionally sugar when preparing a brine. But, using pre-made tea instead of plain water would work just as well and add a lot of flavor. You can give your protein even more flavor by mixing tea with salt and other spices without sacrificing the moist consistency that brining is well known for.
What do you think of these alternatives?