Moroccan Mint Tea Recipes

Steps:

• Boil the water and pour a small amount in the teapot, swishing it around to warm the pot.
• Combine the mint and green tea and sugar in the teapot, then fill it with the rest of the hot water.
• Let the tea brew for three minutes.
• Set out glasses for the tea.
• A shot-glass is close to the slender glasses used in Morocco.
• Fill just one glass with the tea, then pour it back in the pot.
• Repeat.
• This helps to dissolve and distribute the sugar.
• Pour the tea.
• You want a nice foam on the tea so always pour with the teapot a high distance above the glasses.
• If you do not have at least a little foam on the top of the first glass, then pour it back into the teapot and try again until the tea starts to foam up nicely.
• Garnish with the remaining sprigs of mint.

Steps:

• Put tea in teapot and pour in 1 cup boiling water, then swirl gently to warm pot and rinse tea. Strain out and discard water, reserving tea leaves in pot.
• Add remaining 4 cups boiling water to tea and let steep 2 minutes. Stir in sugar (to taste) and mint sprigs and steep 3 to 4 minutes more. Serve in small heatproof glasses.

Steps:

• Steep mint and tea in nearly boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes. Remove mint and tea, stir in sugar and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Boil water. Pour a small amount in teapot and swish around to warm the pot. Combine the mint and green tea and sugar in the teapot, then fill it with the rest of the hot water. Let tea brew, stirring the leaves once or twice, for 3 minutes. Pour tea through a tea strainer into glass teacups to serve. Garnish with remaining 4 sprigs of mint.

Steps:

• Pour about 1/2 cup boiling water into a teapot, swish it around to heat the pot, and dump out. Add tea to the teapot and pour in 1 cup of the boiling water. Cover and let steep 3 minutes.
• Add sugar and mint leaves and stems to the teapot. Add the remaining 3 cups boiling water. Cover and let steep for 5 minutes.
• Stir. Continue to steep for 5 minutes more.
• Strain tea into cups.

Steps:

• Put mint leaves into tea pot of boiling water. Pour green tea into strainer and add to boiling water.

Steps:

• Combine mint, sugar, honey and tea in a teapot.
• Pour boiling water over and let steep 5 to 8 minutes.
• Strain out mint and tea leaves and pour into glasses.
• Garnish with a mint sprig and serve.

Steps:

• The first trick to making Moroccan tea properly is to heat up your teapot and "wash your tea" first. Moroccans say that this washing process takes the bitterness out of the tea. To do this, you add about 6 oz. of boiling water to about 2 teaspoons gunpowder green tea, and then you swish it all around in the teapot.
• The second part of "washing the tea" involves adding about 10 mint leaves (spearmint or silver mint is the closest we have to their mint) 1/2 cup sugar (or to your taste). You then swish the liquid in the teapot around again and pour out all the water through a strainer while leaving as much of the tea, mint, and sugar in the pot as possible.
• After washing and straining the tea, you completely fill your teapot by pouring boiling water over the tea and mint leaves. Let it steep for several minutes.
• Moroccan tea is always served hot in skinny glasses (kind of like tall shot glasses) with about 3 mint leaves in the bottom. You pour the tea into the glass from as high as you can manage without spilling it in order to aerate the tea with oxygen. The glass container is as much of the secret to the taste as the "washing of the tea" and the way you should pour the tea into your glass.