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Burundian Milk Tea

Name: Burundian Milk Tea
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Burundi
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Black tea leaves; 500ml Milk; 300ml Water; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1 knob Ginger

Dessert

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Burundian black tea simmered in milk and sweetened — a sweet morning milk tea.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Burundi grows tea in its highlands, and tea is one of its main exports. At home, tea leaves are simmered in milk and water and sweetened generously for a milk tea drunk in the morning or at snack time. Ginger is sometimes added.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house beside a highland tea plantation in Burundi, milk tea simmered in a pot is poured into cups in the morning light.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Black tea leaves 2 tbsp
Milk 500ml
Water 300ml
Sugar 3 tbsp
Ginger 1 knob

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water and sliced ginger to a boil in a pot.
Add the tea leaves and simmer on low for 2 minutes.
Add the milk and sugar and heat until just below boiling.
Reduce the heat so it doesn't boil over and simmer 2 minutes.
Strain into cups.

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