LET’S TALK ABOUT TEA! | Jamie Oliver

hi guys let’s talk about herbal teas
this is a lovely lovely world is it a
great way to hydrate yes
is it a lovely way to start the day yes
does it give you a lovely cozy warm
feeling yes and can from heat you
extract beautiful flavors that you
wouldn’t have in a cold drink yes I’m
going to give you a combo today which i
think is brilliant if you look at this
this is tumeric it’s well worth having a
look for this unbelievable brilliant to
use in your cooking of course we
normally get it like this as a dry
product either way this is absolutely
packed to the rafters with iron which is
no bad thing because we want to have
lovely healthy blood cells and it’s
really really good for our general
health now we can absorb more iron in
the presence of citrus so whether it’s
orange or lemon and there’s juice and
the lovely zest there this is going to
make a delicious delicious drink look at
the color oh my god watch your hands cuz
it will stain get this into a jar now
what I love to do is I make little teas
in an airtight jar right I use that as
my tea pot obviously make sure it’s a
nice Killman job something that’s heat
proof and then what it was leftover goes
into the fridge and then you chill it
and get a totally different sort of
flavor spectrum and when you keep it I
love doing it with things like lemon
orange if you’ve got a speed peeler
those essential oils come out of zest
just a couple of bits of zest literally
three bits like that they’re going to
transform your tea so there’s a little
slice and a few bits of that you can
absolutely swim this with a little honey
if you want to so a little teaspoon of
honey in there for a drink for two to
three people is
delicious and that balance of sort of
the bitter the fragrant the juicy and
the honey is lovely some boiling water
just a little bit of time goes in and
let’s let it steep for a couple of
minutes let’s just talk about what we
can say about these herbal teas for a
fact and we’ve got vitamin C in the
orange and the vitamin C in the orange
is going to let you absorb more iron
from the tumeric double pleasure but in
the time we’ve got a calcium can you
believe it
we always associate sort of calcium rich
foods with dairy but actually it’s in
time as well so you can see they’re not
empty calories right this is not like
neck in a load of soda this is beautiful
stuff which is amazing basically the
story is that whether it’s kind of
ancient Greeks Romans Chinese medicine
yada yada yada there’s so much
association for a beautiful herbal teas
and good health we I can’t actually
legitimately say a load of stuff because
the truth is science medicine just
doesn’t know enough about what we know
yet so the question is are you prepared
to sit around and wait for science to
tell you that this is good now get in
there boil up a kill
have some fun with spices things like
fennel seeds cinnamon you know all these
lovely spices have got lovely
micronutrients for sure citrus for sure
herbs for sure so let’s have a little
pour up delicious really really sort of
comforting and therapeutic undoubtably
better for you than a whole load of I’ll
be doing she could have and who can
argue the good things that factually are
correct about this but guys I hope you
liked this video if you did give us a
little thumbs up but more importantly
I’m sure you guys have got some amazing
ideas and let’s share it on the
community so what is your hot toddy and
your kind of herbal drink of choice
please let us know in the comments box
below and let’s get this thread going
and I’ll pick some out and we’ll have a
little look and we’ll go and make them
another day and we’ll keep it going I
think this is a really really lovely way
to start or finish the day and also most
important is there really
creative way to have fun with flavors so
guys take care
lots of love bye