How to Make Jasmine Tea Properly

Jasmine tea is famous for its delicate floral scent and taste. See how to make this tea properly, with step-by-step directions.

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Jasmine Tea

Jasmine tea is a caffeinated, scented tea usually made from combining green tea leaves with jasmine petals. It has a delicate flavor and a full, floral aroma from the jasmine flowers.

Traditionally, jasmine tea was scented by placing trays of fresh jasmine flowers below a woven tray of tea leaves in a warm room. Now, it’s common for the tea and flowers to be combined as the tea gets processed.

High quality and more expensive jasmine tea is made with fresh jasmine flower buds. The more affordable and less expensive jasmine tea is made with jasmine extract.

Note from Jee

Jasmine tea is shaped into thin, rolled tea leaves or into balls (jasmine pearls). I don’t have a preference over one or the other and don’t consider one better than the other.

But, one thing I do look for is the price since it’ll usually tell me how the tea was scented. If it’s more expensive, I know fresh jasmine flowers were used to make the tea.

My Jasmine Tea Pick

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Fresh jasmine flowers are added to this scented tea.

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Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1: Boil water.
Using an electric kettle with temperature setting to boil water for tea makes it easy to get the water temperature just right. Boil more than needed since you want extra to warm up the teapot.

Step 2: Warm up the teapot by pouring some hot water into the teapot and swirling it around a bit. Discard the water.

Step 3: Put jasmine tea into the teapot and add hot water. Cover teapot and steep.

Step 4: Strain jasmine tea and pour hot tea into a teacup.

Tea Sommelier’s Tips

Don’t make green tea with boiling hot water.
Green tea should be made with simmered water, not boiling hot. Using water that’s too hot will make the tea bitter.

Don’t brew green tea for too long.
Jasmine tea is usually made with green tea which shouldn’t be brewed for longer than 3 minutes. Brewing for too long or in water that’s too hot is how you get really bitter jasmine tea.

Serve jasmine green tea with or without sugar or milk.
Jasmine tea can be had without any sugar and/or milk or just plain, without anything added.

Use good quality water.
Tea is mostly water so it’s important to use good quality water. I recommend using filtered water.

Warm the teapot.
Tea professionals always warm the teapot before making tea to make sure keep the temperature is stable while the tea steeps. Don’t forget to add some extra water to the kettle so that you can warm up the teapot!

Store it properly.
Brewed jasmine tea can be kept in the refrigerator, covered, for up to 4 days.

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• Sencha Tea
• Genmaicha Tea

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Jasmine Tea

By: Jee Choe

How to make jasmine tea properly.

Prep Time: 2 minutes minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes minutes

Yield: 1 serving

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1 cup water, + more to warm teapot
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons jasmine tea, or 1 tea sachet or tea bag

Instructions 

• Boil water.

  If using an electric kettle with temperature setting, set it to 175°F. If boiling water on the stovetop, let it come to a simmer, then turn off heat. (Filtered water is best.)

  Heat a little more water than needed so that it can be used to warm up the teapot.
• Warm up teapot.

  Pour some hot water into a teapot and swirl it around. Discard the water.

  Warming up the teapot is an extra step that all tea professionals take the time to do, so that when the tea steeps, the water temperature won't drop drastically.
• Put jasmine tea into the teapot and add hot water. Cover teapot and steep for 3 minutes.
• Strain jasmine tea solids and pour hot tea into a teacup.

Notes

• Jasmine tea can be had without any sugar and/or milk or just plain, without anything added.
• Tea is mostly water so it’s important to use good quality water. I recommend using filtered water.
• Green tea should be made with simmered water, not boiling hot. Using water that’s too hot will make the tea bitter.
• Jasmine tea is usually made with green tea which shouldn’t be brewed for longer than 3 minutes. Brewing for too long or in water that’s too hot is how you get really bitter jasmine tea.
• Brewed jasmine tea can be kept in the refrigerator, covered, for up to 4 days.

Nutrition

Calories: 0.1Carbohydrates: 0.02gSodium: 12mgPotassium: 3mgCalcium: 7mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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