SPICY SUMMER DRINK

Ingredients:

500ml strong (just over 2 cups), hot Intaba Rooibos tea (use 3 tea bags)

1 cinnamon stick

4 cloves

Pinch of nutmeg

1.5 liters of orange juice

Steps:

1. Boil rooibos tea, cinnamon stick, cloves and nutmeg together for 10 minutes

2. Strain

3. Add orange juice and chill

4. Serve cold with ice (12 glasses)

We have not yet used this recipe, but will let you know when we do.  Recipe courtesy of Intaba Tea.  Visit the official Intaba Tea site for more recipes and other interesting information.  Since Intaba in a South African company, the measurements in this recipe  are metric. We have tried to provide approximate measurements for a US audience, but use metric measurements if you can.

WHOLESOME BEAN SOUP

3 litres (just over 12.5 cups) of Intaba Rooibos tea (use 10 tea bags)

650 grams (23 ounces) sugar beans (also known as butter beans or lima beans)

150 grams (just over 5 ounces) bacon,diced

3 large onions, peeled and chopped

15 ml (just over 1 tablespoon) lemon pepper

200 grams (7 ounces) marrow bones

1 bay leaf

To Prepare:

1. Wash beans and soak overnight in rooibos tea

2. Sauté bacon and onions for a couple of minutes

3. Drain beans and add to onions and bacon in saucepan

4. Add rooibos tea and remaining ingredients and bring to the boil

5. Reduce heat and simmer for approximately 2 hours until beans are tender

6. Serve with wholewheat bread.

Serves about 8 to 10 people

TROPICAL FRUIT PUNCH (Recipe courtesy of Intaba Tea Company)

750 ml (a little over 3 cups) strong, cold Intaba Rooibos tea (use 4 tea bags)

250 ml pineapple juice (just over 1 cup)

1 can (100g) granadilla (passionfruit) pulp

40g sugar (about 1.5 ounces)

Crushed ice

Glacé cherries

Fresh pineapple cubes

Fresh mint, chopped

1. Mix tea, pineapple juice, granadilla pulp, sugar and ice.

2. Decorate with cherries, pineapple cubes and mint

3. Serve chilled (4 glasses)

Serve.  Your guests will think you are suberb for this health, tasty and different drink.

Pure and organic, Intaba Rooibos is made the way its been done in Africa for generations.   Rooibos brews red in color and has a unique sweet nuttty flavor. Rooibos is caffeine free, very low in tannin and known for calming nausea. Rooibos is used by some cancer hospitals to reduce nausea.  It also has many health benefits and may protect against cancer, skin cancer, heart attack or stroke.

Step up to real rooibos; direct from South Africa.

Today, authenticity and taste are important in foods.  Make sure you are getting this in your rooibos.

A great place to start is Bushbabines from Intaba Tea, which is an organic blend of rooibos and honeybush.  Completely healthy, Intaba Bushbabies tea is naturally caffeine free, healthy, calming and sweet tasting.  Bushbabies combines the soothing effect of rooibos with the naturally sweet taste of honeybush.  Bushbabies can be served hot or cold. Children really will love the sweet taste.

Give your kids Intaba Bushbabies Tea. They will enjoy the taste.

Then, try Intaba Bushbabies tea, an organic blend of rooibos and honeybush. Ideal for children, Intaba Bushbabies tea is naturally caffeine free, healthy, calming and sweet tasting. Bushbabies combines the soothing effect of rooibos with the naturally sweet taste of Honeybush. Bushbabies can be served hot or cold. Children really will love the sweet taste of Bushbabies tea.

Intaba Teas are made by Cape Natural Tea Products of South Africa. Cape Natural Tea Products are a world-class supplier of Rooibos, Honeybush and other African Herbal Teas and Botanicals. Cape Natural Tea produces a range of indigenous African herbal teas and botanicals sold in Europe, the USA and the Pacific Rim. Cape Natural Tea was established in 1996 as a joint partnership between rooibos farmers and marketers.

For this recipe, use Intaba Rooibos. To make it easier, we converted the metric measurements. However, if you can use the metric measurement, it is best to do so. The conversions are off a bit.

100 ml (a little over 3 ounces) strong Intaba Rooibos tea (use 1 tea bag)
115 g soft butter or margarine (4 ounces)
170 g castor sugar (6 ounces)
280 g cake flour (a little over 2 cups)
10 ml baking powder (2 teaspoons)
3 eggs, beaten

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 F)
2. Rub butter or margarine into dry ingredients until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs
3. Add eggs and Rooibos tea. Mix well
4. Place paper cups in a muffin pan and spoon batter into each. Bake in center of oven for 25 – 30 minutes
5. Turn out and allow to cool
6. Decorate with soft icing

Now, enjoy and have with a cup of Intaba Bushbabies, herbal tea for the kids.

Intaba Rooibos

Many tea drinkers have not tried Rooibos. If you have not tried this herbal tea, you should. A good Rooibos to start with is Intaba Rooibos. Intaba is a South African tea company.

Rooibos or Red Tea is a herb grown in the Cedarburg Mountains of South Africa. To be authentic, Rooibos has to come from this area.

Rooibos has many health benefits. Rooibos tea is known for calming nausea. Rooibos is used by some cancer hospitals to reduce nausea. Rooibos also may protect against cancer, skin cancer, heart attack or stroke.

Intaba Teas are made by Cape Natural Tea Products of South Africa. Cape Natural Tea Products are a world-class supplier of Rooibos, Honeybush and other African Herbal Teas and Botanicals. Cape Natural Tea produces a range of indigenous African herbal teas and botanicals sold in Europe, the USA and the Pacific Rim. Cape Natural Tea was established in 1996 as a joint partnership between rooibos farmers and marketers.

Honeybush tea is made from herbs found in Africa. Now, you can get tea direct from Africa with Intaba Teas. Made in South Africa, Intaba Tea is mountain grown and supported by a unique microclimate that produces the highest-quality natural teas.

Honeybush tea also has a small but dedicated following among tea drinkers. Intaba Honeybush tea is an organic, pure and natural honeybush tea. Delicate and fragrant, Honeybush tea (different than Rooibos) is an herb prepared from the flowers and leaves of the cyclopia species plants, which grow only in the mountain regions of South Africa.

For centuries, native Africans harvested and drank Honeybush tea. Naturally caffeine-free and low in tannin, Honeybush tea is believed to have health benefits, relieving sleeplessness and indigestion. Honeybush tea also acts as an expectorant and an antioxidant, possesses antiviral, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic properties, and heals minor skin ailments.

More than 23 species of honeybush exist. Intaba Tea uses only the organic Sweet LeafTM honeybush. This variety of Honeybush makes the finest grade of tea. Intaba Honeybush also builds on Intaba Teas’ commitment to social responsibility. All our honeybush tea is sourced directly from a Honeybush job creation project at Haarlem, a subsistence farming community in the Langkloof, South Africa.

Honeybush tea dates back centuries. Honeybush dates to Dutch and British tea trade in Africa in the 1700s. The plant was first noted by botanists in 1705.