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Black tea

Also called red tea

Black tea is a beverage made by infusing tea leaves. It can be served with milk or lemon.

Category
Drinks
Part used
Leaf
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Black tea, prepared

Photo: AntanO · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use black tea

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Infuse

Cooking with it

Steep black tea in water at 90–98 °C for 3–5 minutes. Oversteeping makes the brew bitter. Strain the tea once it has reached the desired strength.

Goes well with

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What black tea is called

Names in 72 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    té negro · Te negro

  • French

    thé noir

  • Italian

    tè nero · tè rosso

  • Portuguese

    chá preto

  • German

    schwarzer Tee · Roter Tee · Schwarztee

  • Dutch

    zwarte thee · Rode thee

  • Greek

    μαύρο τσάι

  • Turkish

    siyah çay · kırmızı çay

  • Russian

    чёрный чай · Черный чай

  • Polish

    czarna herbata · herbata czarna

  • Arabic

    شاي أحمر · شاي اسود · الشاي الأسود

  • Persian

    چای سیاه

Show all 72 languages

  • Afrikaans

    swart tee

  • Albanian

    Çaji i Zi

  • Armenian

    Սև թեյ

  • Assamese

    ৰঙা চাহ

  • Asturian

    té negro

  • Azerbaijani

    qara çay

  • Bangla

    কালো চা

  • Bashkir

    Ҡара сәй

  • Basque

    Te beltz

  • Belarusian

    Чорны чай

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    чорны чай

  • blk

    နိန်းအနွိုးသဲင်

  • Bulgarian

    Черен чай

  • Burmese

    အချိုခြောက်

  • Cantonese

    紅茶

  • Catalan

    te negre

  • cdo

    è̤ng-dà

  • Chinese

    红茶 · 紅茶 · 红茶制作技艺

  • Croatian

    Crni čaj

  • Czech

    černý čaj

  • Esperanto

    nigra teo

  • Finnish

    musta tee

  • Galician

    Té negro

  • Gujarati

    કાળી ચા

  • Hakka Chinese

    Fùng-chhà

  • Hausa

    Black tea

  • Hebrew

    תה שחור

  • Hindi

    ब्लैक टी

  • Hungarian

    fekete tea

  • Indonesian

    teh hitam

  • Japanese

    紅茶 · アイスティー · ブラックティー · ストレートティー

  • Javanese

    tèh ireng

  • Kannada

    ಕಪ್ಪು ಚಹಾ

  • Korean

    홍차

  • Lao

    ຊາດຳ

  • Lithuanian

    juodoji arbata · Juoda arbata

  • Macedonian

    црн чај

  • Malayalam

    കട്ടൻ ചായ

  • Manchu

    ᡴᠠᡵᠠ ᠴᠠᡳ

  • Min Nan Chinese

    âng-tê

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    svart te · Sort te · Rød te

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    svart te

  • Occitan

    Tè negre

  • Punjabi

    ਬਲੈਕ ਟੀ

  • Romanian

    ceai negru · ceai roșu

  • Serbian

    црни чај

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    црни чај

  • Serbian (Latin)

    crni čaj

  • Simplified Chinese

    红茶

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    红茶

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    红茶

  • Slovenian

    črni čaj

  • Swedish

    svart te

  • Tamil

    பிளாக் டீ · வர டீ · கருப்புத் தேநீர்

  • Thai

    ชาดำ

  • Tibetan

    ཇ་དམར།

  • Traditional Chinese

    紅茶

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    紅茶

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    紅茶

  • Ukrainian

    Чорний чай · Червоний чай

  • Urdu

    کالی چائے

  • Uyghur

    قارا چاي

  • Uzbek

    Qora choy

  • Venetian

    tè mòro

  • Vietnamese

    trà đen

  • Welsh

    te du

  • Yiddish

    שװאַרצער טײ

  • Zaza

    Çaya siya

  • Zhuang

    Caz nding

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q203415

Photos

Photo: AntanO · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons