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 Atai

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Atai

Dessert
⏱ 30 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐⭐

Green tea and mint brewed and poured from a height to froth — Mauritania's three rounds of tea.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Atai is the sweet mint tea at the heart of Mauritanian life: Chinese green tea, mint, and lots of sugar are brewed in a small pot and poured from a height into glasses to make froth. It's said the first glass is bitter like life, the second sweet like love, and the third gentle like death, and the three are drunk slowly.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Inside a Mauritanian tent, a man holds a small pot high and pours tea into glasses as frothy mint tea lines a tray on the sand.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Put the tea leaves and a little hot water in a small pot, swirl to rinse, and discard the water.

  2. Add water, set over heat, and brew 5 minutes.

  3. Add the sugar and mint and dissolve.

  4. Pour back and forth from a height between pot and glass several times to build froth.

  5. Pour into small glasses, brewing up to three rounds from the same leaves.

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