@Joe, here some fore reads...

http://natures-health-foods.com/fig-leaves.html

Interesting read thanks!

wellcome, indeed its informative...

Try taking your dried figs leaves and toasting them in a dry frying pan.
Low to medium heat, heavy pan if possible, heat the pan first, no oil, dry,
stir the dried leaves for a few minutes, a nutty smell will start to rise from the pan,
give it a few more minutes, then remove and cool.  Make your tea.

If you like rice,
take  two fresh fig leaves and float in your rice cooker. Cook rice.
Remove leaves once cooking is finished.
Might become your new favorite rice.

Can also use fig leaves to make cheese (rennet) or  ferment (pickle) vegetables.

Hi Aaron,

Do you ever use the fresh leaves?  If I have to trim some leaves off I like to make fig leaf tree.  The storage benefit of dried leaves makes sense.  Does it taste the same?

I have noticed that different varieties have different aromas and flavors as tea.  Have you noticed that too?

Joe, i never tryied the fresh leaves, I should.
You are right about each variety having a different aroma.
Dry ones would have less grassy underlying taste and more like green tea with touch of Vanila, Coconut, chamomile or Mint.
Thats my take on it so far.
After drying, I crash them like dry mint, removing all the thick veins and stalks and keep it in an airtight jar.

there it is, the final product. ;)

 

Yummm... What a nice topic . Thank you Aaron for sharing. Your tea set up looks so cozy and warm...We make tea from fresh leaves and it taste good too.  My youngest daughter runs outsides when we want to make that special "garden" tea and she knows what to pick already to make that nice combination : couple mulberry leaves, couple fig leaves, couple guava leaves and a few nice strands of lemon grass.  This combination can be varied depending on what flavor you enjoy more. Each of this herb has great health benefits. I love lemon grass flavor a lot :0 ) Everyone who tries this special tea in our house really enjoys it and keeps asking for seconds :)  Jujubes when dried make delicious healthy drink when simmered on low for a few minutes, they are great for heart and liver problems or just nutritious hot or cold drink.   Keep experiementing and enjoy your tea and stay healthy !

I am glad Aaron you started this topic. I did not know you can make tea out of fig leaves. I'll give it a try.

welcome Katerina, I have heard different combinations to Fig leaves....Pete had mentioned the Jujube and Lemon grass as well, sounds lovely. I want to try them all.

Pat, this is all new to me too, that's why I am promoting it, I was pleasantly surprised as I tried for the first time.

  sorry  IDK why this came out so BIG I cant shrink the pictures,    I'm a space hog  LOL

Well if the name isn't hint enough, I am a lover of tea. All the recipes and drying methods have me so looking forward to next fall for the leaves of my new figs AND mulberries. Now I have one more reason to obsess over my plethora of plants. <3

[QUOTE=bullet08]here is an old korean recipe. 

a segment of fresh ginger
a stick of cinnamon
an orange peel
few chinese dates
pinch of dried fig leaf since it's on fig forum.. but back in korea, specially up in seoul, fig wasn't around. down by busan (pusan) there were some.. or so i'm told by my wife. 

bring them to simmer and keep on simmering. serve whenever you want to drink it. used to run that on top of kerosene burner/stove all winter long in korea.[/QUOTE]

Oooh, this sounds good!

I have a pitcher of iced fig leaf tea in the fridge most of the time.
After drying the leaves I put them thru a small electric grinder (for coffee beams or herbs), and store the ground leaves in plastic bags in the freezer.
I make my iced tea with a large tea bag filled with the ground fig leaves and throw in some home grown spearmint leaves (fresh in summer, dried in winter).  Sometimes I will add a single green tea bag to the brew for variety, and my wife recently got some black tea with pomegranate - a tea bag of that adds a different flavor also for variety. 

Hopefully I have enough dried fig leaves to make it thru the winter this year, most of my trees were small and I did not want to set them back too much by taking a lot of their leaves early in the summer.  We had so much rain in Sept that most got rust and I did not want to use those leaves for tea.

[QUOTE=Aaron4USA]there it is, the final product. ;)

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Ooooh, nice. So u grind the leaves, Aaton?