Ice Tea

 

Moroccan Mint Tea

Ice Tea is one of the most refreshing way to keep cool on a hot day. Whether basking by the pool, chilling in the park or heading to the beach, nothing beats a cup of iced tea. 

While there are bottled iced tea for convenience, there is nothing more satisfying than making your own homemade iced tea based on your own unique flavour choice. Tea drinks such as iced tea are very easy to make, you can make it using fresh fruits or simple syrups with tea as the base.

In Tea Ideas and Treats there is a pleasurable and exotic selection of iced tea. Today I would like to share a favourite iced tea recipe which is Moroccan Mint Tea. 

Bring the spirit of summer to wherever you are with cool, refreshing and indulgent iced Tea.

Maghrebi Mint tea is popularly known as Moroccan mint tea, is made using gunpowder green tea, mint and sugar. Moroccans sometimes add other herbs such as  lemon verbena or flowers or orange blossom water. During the winter months they add warming herbs such as pennyroyal mint and wormwood

What you’ll need

·      2 tablespoon loose Chinese gunpowder green tea

·      2 cups boiling water

·      1 tablespoons sugar or to taste

·      28g fresh mint

·      Glass teacup

·      Metal pot

Let’s make it!

Place 2 tablespoons of tea in teapot with 2 cups of boiling water.

 Steep for 15 minutes.

 Strain the mixture into a metal pot then add sugar. 

Boil over medium heat for 5 minutes.

Add fresh mint to a glass teacup then pour tea in. Serve and enjoy!

Varied steeping time gives the tea a unique taste which is described by this famous Maghrebi proverb:

The first glass is as gentle as life, the second is as strong as love, the third is as bitter as death.

Check out Tea Ideas and Treats for this and many other Moroccan Tea.