Mint tea is Morocco's national drink, closely linked to customs of hospitality, kindness and courtesy.
Ingredients
To make a good mint tea, you need the following ingredients:
- Gunpowder-type green tea;
- good-quality fresh mint leaves, very green, very fragrant and slightly rough, still firmly attached to their stems;
- sugar;
- pure water.
Making Moroccan tea
- Bring water to the boil.
- Wash the fresh mint leaves carefully.
- Put the tea in the teapot with a little water, then throw the water away, keeping the green tea in the teapot. This removes the bitterness of the green tea caused by the tannins.
- Then pour the rest of the water into the teapot, ideally one with a filter in the spout. Add the fresh mint, immediately submerging the leaves in the water (otherwise they take on a burnt taste), then add the sugar lumps.
- To mix, fill a glass from the teapot, then pour it back into the teapot, two or three times.
- Finally, pour into the glasses, holding the teapot up high to make the tea “foam”.
