Moroccan Mint Tea - How to Make Moroccan Mint Tea

 

The Lebanese Recipes Kitchen (The home of delicious Lebanese Recipes and Middle Eastern food recipes) invites you to try Moroccan Mint Tea recipe. Enjoy tasty Middle Eastern Cuisine and learn how to make Moroccan Mint Tea.

Cook Time: 10 min
Level: Easy
Yield: 1 quart tea

Ingredients

4 teaspoons Moroccan or green tea leaves
24 fresh spearmint leaves, plus more for garnish
4 to 5 tablespoons sugar, or to taste
1 quart boiling water

Directions

Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Add boiling water to a teapot that holds about 4 cups water, and swirl to warm. Discard the water and add the tea, 24 mint leaves, and sugar to the teapot. Pour the quart of boiling water into the teapot and swirl once or twice to dissolve the sugar. Allow the tea to steep for 5 minutes.

Pour the tea through a strainer into small decorative Moroccan glasses or teacups. Garnish each with several fresh mint leaves.

Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2005

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Quick and easy to prepare Sahlab Recipe. Sahlab is traditionally prepared at home although there are boxed versions of this pudding. You can add more or less cornstarch to this recipe if preferred.

Sahlab Ingredients - Serves 3 -5
4 cups milk
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sugar (to taste)

Toppings
ground cinnamon (to taste)
unsweetened dried shredded coconut (to taste)
chopped pistachios (to taste)

Preparation
1. Combine cornstarch and water in a small cup and stir well.
2. Add milk to a soup pan or dutch oven pot.
3. Stir in cornstarch mixture in milk before it gets warm.
4. Add in vanilla and sugar.
5. Must stir constantly until it comes to a boil.
6. Let boil for 2 minutes, meanwhile still stirring.
7. Serve in dessert bowls.
8. Top with cinnamon and coconut or just chopped pistachios.
9. It's traditionally eaten hot, but I like it cold too, once it cooled off and firmed up.
10. Enjoy!

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Sahlab is one of the most popular hot drinks in the middle east in cafes, as well as in homes. To warm up during winter, learn how to make warm, sweet, aromatic Sahlab , Enjoy this simple Lebanese Sahlab Recipe!

Ingredients - Serves 2 persons
1 teaspoon sahlab dissolved in a 1/4 cup milk
2 cups cold milk
Sugar according to taste

Preparation
In a pot, pour the milk and the salep and milk mixture and bring to the boil, stirring, over gentle heat.

When the mixture comes to the boil, remove from the heat and place in small cups. Garnish with sprinkling of cinnamon.

Serve hot.

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