Cook time: 40 mins
Yield: 2 to 3 cups (prepare a vacuum flask)
Ingredients:
- 5 gm (2 Tbsp) dried chrysanthemum flowers
- 10 gm (3 tsp) goji berry (aka wolfberry)
- 15 gm (1½ Tbsp) dried longan
- 375 ml (1½ cup) boiling water + plus more to rinse
- Rinse the dried chrysanthemum flower, goji berry and longan with cold tap water. Lastly, use boiling water to rinse. Drain well.
- Pour boiling water into a vacuum flask, then discard it. This will warm up the flask. Put in chrysanthemum flower, goji berry, longan and 1 ½ cups of boiling water. Close the lid and set aside for 40 minutes. Drain through a sieve. Enjoy.
- Dried chrysanthemum flower is widely used to brew Chinese tea, available at Asian grocers.
- For the sake of hygiene, use boiling water to rinse dried chrysanthemum flower, goji berry and longan, you’ll be very sure that all the ingredients are very clean. Yet make sure to rinse briefly, not to soak, because you don’t want all the tastes to be gone.
- Or you might use boiled water that is completely cooled down to rinse the ingredients. Then you don’t need to consume any tap water.
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