Cooking with Tea

As part of our reading and reviewing of the Tea Shop Mystery series, we are going to test some of the recipes that are included in each. Last night, we made the chicken cooked with tea recipe included in "Sweet Tea Revenge." It's a simple recipe with only a handful of ingredients, including two tea bags of the cook's choice. We opted for orange pekoe, as we worried that an earl grey or other tea would interact in an unpleasant way with the soy sauce also part of the recipe.

It was hard to discern any tea taste to this dish. Flavors were dominated by the soy sauce, although we used considerably less than the 1/4 cup for which the recipe called. However, that makes it an easy recipe for cooks serving non-tea drinkers.