Sugar Cane & Waterchestnuts Cooling Tea

Fresh Waterchestnuts - Washed & Cleaned

Put a few waterchestnuts into a plastic bag & smash it well. It used to be very messy whenever I smash it, until I found this simple method.

Purple sugarcanes.

Cut the sugar canes into strips as shown in the picture above.



The sugarcane & waterchestnut cooling tea.




The weather is extremely hot & humid. Almost everyone in the house is down with sore throat & cough.

I enjoy talking to the aunty at the vegetable stall as sometimes she will teach me how to cook certain vegetable or for example, this cooling tea which consists of only 2 main ingredients, the waterchestnuts (1kg) & the purple sugarcanes (2 big sticks - asked the vege stall helper to cut it into smaller chunk & after I washed & cleaned these, I cut it into smaller strips.)

Bring a big pot of water to boil (I used a 10L pot today). Add in the smashed waterchestnuts & sugarcane strips and boil in high flames for 20mins then lower the fire to medium flames & continue to boil for another 30mins with pot half covered.

After that, just turn off the gas and let the ingredients simmered in the pot and covered.

Serve warm after an hour or so.

Keep any leftover in the fridge and just heat up or drink it cold anytime.