How to Make Rose Tea at Home?

Rose tea is a highly popular wellness tea, known for its benefits such as promoting blood circulation, beautifying the skin, soothing and stabilizing emotions. Making rose tea is relatively simple, as we can dry fresh roses ourselves and then soak them in water to drink. Let’s learn more about the process of making rose tea.

How to make rose tea?

Rose tea is a type of floral tea in the processed tea category in China, made from fresh roses, and characterized by its sweet and rich floral aroma.

Method One:

1. Pick fresh, tender rose buds as this can retain the nutritional value of the flowers, ensuring the best quality.
2. After picking, spread the roses out appropriately, remove the buds from the stems and leaves, and rinse the rose petals with clean water.
3. Spread the roses out on a ventilated tray or sieve and store them in a covered jar after they are completely dry. To retain the color, aroma, and taste of the roses, the drying process should be at a low temperature.

Method Two:

1. Use mature, fully bloomed roses.
2. Carefully remove the petals, discard the stem and leaves.
3. Place the petals on a paper towel and microwave for 60 seconds.
4. After a minute, there will be quite a lot of moisture on the petals, put them back in the microwave for another 60 seconds.
5. Larger petals will need to go back into the microwave for an additional 30 seconds.
6. Spread out the petals to air-dry for 24-48 hours.
7. Store them in a covered jar until ready to use.

How to brew rose tea?

1. Teaware: You can use porcelain, pottery, or glass teaware to brew rose tea.
2. Water: The water used to brew rose tea should be of good quality, mineral water, purified water, or spring water are all good options.
3. Tea amount: Use a teaspoon to take 5-6 rose buds and place them in the teacup.
4. Rinsing: It’s not suitable to rinse with too hot water, generally, it’s better to rinse with boiling water that has been left to cool for a while.
5. Brewing: Pour boiling water at about 80 degrees over the roses until the tea cup is 80% full, cover with a lid and let it sit for 3-5 minutes. (You must pre-warm the teacup to prevent a rapid drop in temperature, this way the aroma of the tea can fully diffuse.)
6. Drinking: Brewed rose tea should be drunk hot, as the floral aroma is more potent when warm, it’s refreshing and invigorating. Rose buds can be brewed 3-4 times.

The benefits of rose tea

According to traditional Chinese medicine, roses have a sweet and slightly bitter taste and are warm in nature. Their most notable benefits are regulating Qi, alleviating depression, promoting blood circulation, and relieving menstrual pain. In addition, roses have a very gentle medicinal property that can nourish the heart, liver, and blood vessels, relieve internal depression, and have a calming, soothing, and anti-depressive effect.

Rose tea made from roses can reduce heat, nourish the yin, regulate blood circulation, promote blood circulation, beautify the complexion, and eliminate fatigue. It can also heal wounds, protect the liver and stomach functions, and long-term consumption can promote metabolism.