Cooking with Tea: Recipe Roundup

Think outside the box and bring new flavors to your cooking using tea!

I love having a cup of hot breakfast tea in the morning or a tall glass of iced tea on hot afternoons. But tea isn’t just for drinking! Teas can impart subtle smoky, floral, herbal, or even spicy notes, and you can cook with them in different ways. Today, I’m sharing with you a roundup of delicious and creative recipes made with tea, from buttery scones to tea smoked salmon, to fried chicken.

Next time you try a new tea, you’ll be thinking not just about how it tastes as a drink but also what you’re going to cook with it!

Earl Grey Tea Scones with Tart Cherries and White Chocolate Glaze from Eat The Love

Tea Eggs from Roti N Rice

Hot Tea Smoked Salmon from Manu’s Menu

Match Green Tea Salt from Wandercooks

Buttermilk and Black Tea Brined Fried Chicken from Food52

Frosted Chai Snickerdoodle Cookies from Sally’s Baking Addiction

Green Tea Pudding from Just One Cookbook

For those tea lovers out there, if you want to try cooking with tea, you’ll love Palais des Thés’s NEW Cooking with Tea Set, which contains five very different yet complementary teas (including Thé du Hammam, Chaï Impérial, Grand Yunnan Impérial, Sencha Ariake, and Baking Matcha) along with a booklet of 20 delicious sweet and savory recipes, perfect for enhancing everyday meals!

Have you try incorporating tea into your recipes? Will you try any of these recipes?