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Chadian Spiced Milk Tea

Name: Chadian Spiced Milk Tea
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chad
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Black tea leaves; 400ml Milk; 300ml Water; 4 tbsp Sugar; 1 knob Ginger; 3 Cardamom; 3 Clove

Dessert

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Black tea simmered in milk with ginger and cardamom — Chad's sweet tea.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In Chad, tea is essential to hospitality and conversation. Besides green mint tea, people love black tea simmered with ginger, cardamom, and cloves, with plenty of milk and sugar. It's drunk from small glasses at roadside tea stalls in the morning and evening.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a roadside tea stall in N'Djamena, steam rises from a kettle over charcoal as sweet milk tea is poured into small glasses.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Black tea leaves 2 tbsp
Milk 400ml
Water 300ml
Sugar 4 tbsp
Ginger 1 knob
Cardamom 3
Clove 3

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Slice the ginger thinly and lightly crush the cardamom.
Simmer the water and spices in a pot for 3 minutes.
Add the tea leaves and simmer 2 minutes.
Add the milk and sugar and heat until just below boiling.
Strain into small glasses.

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