Sawaddee ka welcome to the second episode of the thirsty edition on hot Thai Kitchen last time I
showed you how to make that milky sweet Thai iced tea this time I'm gonna show you something lighter
and more refreshing that I actually prefer on a hot day we're making chao manao or Thai iced lime
tea now here's your Thai lesson chao means tea and manao just means lime now when you say chao manao
in Thailand it's going to assumed to be cold so if you want it hot which you could it's not very
it's not done very often you'd have to specify Charminar on and Ron means hot okay so let's
take a look at what we've got so the same setup I've got this cloth coffee filter here you can
use paper coffee filter if you'd like anything that's very very fine mesh strainer is going
to be too wide and you get a lot of tea dust at the bottom so to this I'm doing two tablespoons
of Thai tea leaves per cup this is a little less than Thai iced tea iced tea a mate three
tablespoons and that's because there's no milk or anything in it so you don't need as much tea
for the flavour to really come through okay and then for those of you who are interested this is
what I use you can use any brand of Thai iced tea you can find I've yet to find a brand that
doesn't work or works better than other brands and then to this a cup of hot off the boil water
just pour that in and then this needs about three minutes to steep you can leave it longer
okay and meanwhile we're going to get our glass full of ice now
I've got this big glass here and you want to pack it pack full of ice because you want to
have enough ice that by the time you pour it and you still have some ice left so what I'll
do is actually take this lime this is about a third of a lime and I'm gonna squeeze it into
my cup the reason why I'm squeezing it to this cup and not into the hot tea is because lime
tastes freshest when it hasn't been exposed to heat when heat exposure has been minimized
so if I squeeze it into the ice it'll taste better okay get everything out and then I'm
going to add about four teaspoons of sugar into my mixing glass here and of course this is up to
you how sweet you like it so we're just gonna pour in our team and what I'm gonna do is I'm
actually gonna add in an ice cube after that after the sugar is dissolved so that it's not
so hot when it gets poured over the over the glass I didn't do this for the Thai iced tea
because we added condensed milk which helps cool down the temperature quite a bit but now we're
not to minimize ice lost when we go to to mix it and now you want to taste for sweetness I know
there's no lime in it here we're just tasting for sweetness you can add more sugar but once it gets
into here it'll be less sweet so this should taste a little too sweet and you don't want to
add it to the here and then add sugar because when it's cold if the sugar won't dissolve so
you want to do all your adjustment here well you can hmm hmm could even use a little extra lime
but that's all I got for you today this promise you it's gonna be one of your favorite and for
this recipe you can visit haughty kitchen calm and I will see you next time for another drink