Many families serve tea more than once a day and moroccan hospitality dictates that one must always offer mint tea to both drop ins and expected guests.
Arabic mint tea recipe.
Moroccan tea can be served with meals dried fruits and nuts an array of sweets or other moroccan tea time recipes.
Let the tea brew for three minutes.
The pine nuts don t add anything to the flavor of the drink so i usually leave them off.
Home mint tea نقيع النعنع.
Stir in sugar to taste and mint sprigs and steep 3 to 4 minutes more.
A light and refreshing version of iced tea that is served at all the local greek and lebanese restaurants.
Pour water and sugar into a teapot or saucepan to boil on the stove.
She was born sometime in 1895.
Try to pour from an arm s length above each glass to get that nice foamy head.
Heat on high until water is boiling and sugar has dissolved.
A shot glass is close to the slender glasses used in morocco.
Arabic mint tea.
Here is the recipe.
4 cups water cup sugar 3 black tea bags 5 6 fresh mint leaves.
Fill just one glass with the tea then pour it back in the pot.
Add remaining 4 cups boiling water to tea and let steep 2 minutes.
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Pour out the glasses of tea about two thirds to three quarters full.
In a blender combine the lemon juice mint sugar and 1 2 cup of the water and blend until fully liquid.
Strain the tea into cups or heatproof glasses and sweeten with honey to taste.
I was quite surprised to discover that this recipe actually originated in the new orleans baton rouge area.
Combine the mint and green tea and sugar in the teapot then fill it with the rest of the hot water.
This helps to dissolve and distribute the sugar.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve reserving the liquid and discarding the.
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September 7 2009 drinks the good old days of making mooneh provisions for the winter are over for a large majority of lebanese folks my grandmother s generation made mooneh dedicating days to making pickles and olives and jams and labneh balls and eggplant makdoos and moghrabiyeh and kishk.
Drop the reserved mint into the cups to decorate if you like.
Fill up the pot with boiling water and let it infuse for 2 3 mins or until the liquid starts to take on a slight pale yellow green hue.
Moroccan teapots vary in size but a small pot typically holds about a half liter six small tea glasses while a larger pot holds approximately a liter 12 glasses.
Set out glasses for the tea.
I buy my rose water from a local middle eastern grocery store you can also find it at.
