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Somali Shaah

Name: Somali Shaah
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Somalia
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Black tea leaves; 200ml Milk; 500ml Water; 4 pods Cardamom; 1 Cinnamon stick; 3 Clove; 1 knob Ginger; 3 tbsp Sugar

Dessert

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Black tea simmered with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger and sweetened — Somalia's spiced tea.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Shaah is the sweet spiced tea at the heart of Somali daily life: black tea leaves are simmered with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and more, and plenty of sugar is added. Milk is often added too. It's drunk many times a day — at breakfast, afternoon breaks, and when welcoming guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Mogadishu afternoon, men sit on plastic chairs at a small alley teahouse, chatting over spiced tea poured into little glasses.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Black tea leaves 2 tbsp
Milk 200ml
Water 500ml
Cardamom 4 pods
Cinnamon stick 1
Clove 3
Ginger 1 knob
Sugar 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Lightly crush the cardamom and slice the ginger thinly.
Simmer the water, spices, and ginger in a pot for 5 minutes.
Add the tea leaves and simmer 3 minutes.
Add the milk and sugar and heat through.
Strain into glasses.

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