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Icyayi

Name: Icyayi
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Rwanda
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Black tea leaves; 400ml Milk; 200ml Water; 1 piece Ginger; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 Cinnamon stick

Dessert

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Black tea and ginger simmered in milk — Rwanda's sweet spiced milk tea.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Rwanda produces fine tea, with tea plantations covering its hillsides. Icyayi, drunk at home, is a sweet milk tea made by simmering milk and water with tea leaves and ginger, sometimes cinnamon or cardamom, and adding sugar. It's essential at breakfast and afternoon breaks.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house overlooking hillside tea plantations in Rwanda, steaming milk tea is poured into cups as morning light streams in.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Black tea leaves 2 tbsp
Milk 400ml
Water 200ml
Ginger 1 piece
Sugar 2 tbsp
Cinnamon stick 1/2

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water, sliced ginger, and cinnamon to a boil in a pot.
Add the tea leaves and simmer 2 minutes.
Add the milk and heat until just below boiling.
Add the sugar and dissolve.
Strain into cups.

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