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Trà Sen – Green Tea Scented with Lotus
Trà Sen is the best-known tea in Vietnam. In Hanoi, tea makers from West Lake stuff green tea into lotus flowers that close in the evening, and take it out again in the morning. You can copy this with a single flower. Overnight the tea picks up the sweet floral scent. Brewed with 80°C (176°F) water, it tastes grassy and floral. You drink it plain from small cups, and it goes well with mooncakes or lotus seed sweets.
Trà Sen – Green Tea Scented with Lotus
Laura Chen
4
15 minutes
10 minutes
2
Vietnamese
Drink
Trà Sen is Vietnamese lotus tea from Hanoi. In the evening you fill a fresh lotus flower with green tea, tie it shut, and let the tea absorb the fragrance overnight. In the morning you brew it with 80°C (176°F) water, and it tastes grassy and floral.
Ingredients
- 1 fresh, half-open lotus flower with stem
- 10 g loose-leaf green tea (for example Vietnamese Thái Nguyên tea)
- 800 ml water
- 30 cm kitchen twine
Instructions
- In the evening, put the lotus flower in a vase of water. Gently bend the petals apart without breaking them.
- Sprinkle the green tea into the center of the flower around the stamens.
- Close the petals again and tie them loosely with kitchen twine. Leave the flower in a cool place for 10 to 12 hours overnight.
- In the morning, untie the twine and shake the tea out of the flower into a bowl.
- Boil the water and let it cool for 5 minutes, until it is about 80°C (176°F). Warm a teapot with a little hot water and pour it out.
- Put the tea in the pot, pour the water over it, and steep for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour into small tea bowls.
- You can infuse the tea leaves 2 more times, steeping each one 1 minute longer.
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