Once you make a hot cup of Moroccan mint tea for your family and friends, I can assure you that they will long for your invitations as your mint tea will taste like being on vacation in Morocco! Whereas Algerian cities had been introduced to coffee culture under the influence of the Ottomans, Moroccan cities would only be introduced to coffee later. A good way to start to acclimatise your palate to green tea, which is said to have great health benefits due to its antioxidant content. Making delicious Moroccan mint tea comes down to using specific tea leaves and mint leaves, and a specific type of teapot.

With your consent, reCAPTCHA, a Google service to avoid spam messages via contact forms, will be embedded. To make Moroccan mint tea, the only ingredients you will need are gunpowder loose tea, a generous amount of fresh mint leaves, a few aromatics (optional), and sugar. This delicious and refreshing beverage is served with special tea cookies, additional mint leaves in the glass, shaped brown sugar and often in coloured glasses.Moroccan Mint is also known as Spearmint or Nana Mint but was once originally known as crisped mint. and leaving the sweet traditional version when your diet allows you to, or when you are having guests over. The higher the tea is poured, the more foam you will get on top of your drink adding more texture and flavor to your tea. You can turn this into iced tea by creating and chilling a double-strength concentrate (2 tablespoons tea) of the tea and a mint-infused simple syrup or honey, which will distribute better in cold water than sugar crystals.

World Food: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Social Influence from Hunter Gatherers to the Age of Globalization. It is traditional to the Greater Maghreb region (the northwest African countries of Morocco, Algeria, [8] [9] [10] Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania). Moroccan people use a generous quantity of mint and sometimes, they have to bend the branches and squeeze them to make them enter the teapot. Add mint (fresh or dried) and make sure it is all covered with water, otherwise, it may leave your tea with a bitter taste.We've even added a sprinkling of blue cornflower petals for a British touch – why not try it the traditional way, mixed with honey or sugar? I have a friend from northern Morocco who makes tea one way but always doubles the sugar when my husband is at the table.

Ever since our founder Walter Whittard weighed out tea leaves behind his high mahogany counter, we've been experimenting with our own inventive blends. Char has carefully blended the finest China pinhead gunpowder tea and Moroccan nana-mint leaves to create a delicious and revitalising tea that can be drunk hot or cold. According to a Moroccan saying the first glass of Moroccan mint tea is as soft as life, the second as strong as love, and the last as bitter as death. It is usually a Chinese Gunpowder Green Tea mixed with either Spearmint or Peppermint leaves and sugar. However, as English tea brands were more fashionable at that time, the Pickwick brand was developed.

For more information on cookie lifetime and required essential cookies, please see the Privacy notice. Maghrebi Mint Tea is also widely consumed throughout the day in bars and cafes that offer an alcohol-free alternative to the pubs and bars that our culture is more familiar with, the difference being the lack of alcohol. Presentation is very important as the principle is that enjoying this drink is luxurious on the tongue, nose and the eyes.