A few days ago, Michael was coughing a lot and he said he had a sore throat and mucus. I am not a doctor, but he thinks I can fix him. 
He basically doesn’t trust modern medicine and loves oriental treats so much. So I made this ginger tea for him. It has a warm character, helps blood circulation and keeps your hands and feet warm. It also helps stop coughing and clears mucus. Though oriental doctors recommend not to drink it, if you have a fever.
Ingredients
- Fresh ginger - 80 g
- Fresh cinnamon pieces- 20 g
- Water - 8 cups
- Optional (just before you serve the tea) - 4 to 5 pine nuts, 1 tsp of honey
Preparation
- Clean the ginger well (peel the skin off as well). - I scrubbed it with rough cloth first then used a spoon to scrub off the skin
- Rinse the cinnamon in cold water. (You don’t need to cut them into small pieces, mine was already in small pieces.)
- Thin slice the ginger.
Cooking
- Put the ginger, cinnamon, and water into a pot.
- Boil it on medium (or low) heat for about 25-30 minutes.
- Sieve the ginger and cinnamon. (Use a white straining cloth if you can, to catch the small dirt from the cinnamon)
- Serve it in a tea cup. (You can also add some pine nuts and honey)
It gave me more than 1.5 L of tea (about 7-8 cups of tea). This is how I keep the rest.
Michael just reheats a little amount of tea whenever he drinks it - 2 times a day. Here is a comment from the consumer :
“This is my favourite drink. It helps sooth my throat, and is very relaxing.”
This is a picture of the cinnamon (Korean name :Gyepi) I got last year from Homeplus. (about 5,800 won - US $6.10)
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this tea sounds really soothing for a sore throat and that is a LOT of cinnamon you got!
I’ve never bought fresh cinnamon before, so I didn’t know what to expect.
I love 생강 차! Great tea for the holidays.
And, yeah, I brought a small package of stick cinnamon with me from America when I first came here almost three years ago. I still haven’t used it all. Yet it’s good to know I can find it fairly easily at the big box supercenters.
Hi ZenKimchi,
How did you think to bring cinnamon to Korea from the US, that was good planning. I hope you make some good ginger tea.
When I was packing, I didn’t know what would and wouldn’t be available. Since I’m a food nerd, I packed herbs and spices just in case I couldn’t find them here. I have since found in Korean stores most of what I packed except cloves, allspice, and Texas chili powder. Oh, and Old Bay Seasoning–which is a form of currency for foreigners from the Gulf Coast.
I’m interested in the “fresh cinnamon” part. Does this just mean cinnamon bvark versus ground cinnamon?
ZenKimchi
My husband and I visited Australia recently, and would you believe it, we forgot to bring back any of the spices we had meant to get. No worries though, like you said, I can get most of them here anyway.
Kangmi
That’s right, I use cinnamon bark, not ground cinnamon. I always use the freshest or more natural ingredient if possible.
hi
i am searching for the powdered cinnamon drink i love so much. its pure cinnamon with maybe some sugar, and i have a photo of the label if anyone wants it. its the kind you can put in pine nuts with, its just cinnamon not the kind with
persimmon, i thought somone said its called ‘pi cha’ [pi tea] but there is no tea just cinnamon.
does anyone know where it can be bought in america or canada ?
warm thanks
jerry
email me directly at ; greggregbo@yahoo.com
Hi Jerry,
I think you meant “Gyepicha”. Gyepi is the cinnamon.
Have you tried a Korean grocery shop yet? I tried online Korean grocery shops based in the US, but I couldn’t find it.
My recipe for cinnamon tea is very similar to the post above, yet it is not powdered. (I will do the cinnamon tea post in the future though)
I hope other readers can help you.
I had this last nite at a local korean restaurant.. fell in lvoe with it.. and i wanted to do it myself.. I knew that i can find that recipe here… thanx yeah