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Shai Adeni

Name: Shai Adeni
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Yemen
Ingredients: 3 tbsp Black tea leaves; 400ml Milk; 200ml Water; 5 pods Cardamom; 2 Clove; 3 tbsp Sugar

Dessert

⏱ 15 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Black tea simmered sweet with cardamom and milk — the milk tea of the port city of Aden.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Shai adeni means 'Aden tea,' a sweet milk tea born in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen. Tea leaves are simmered in milk and water with cardamom and cloves and sweetened with sugar. In the alley cafés of Aden, it's drunk from small glasses from morning till night.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an alley café near Aden's port, the owner pours milk tea from a big pot into small glasses from on high as men talk at length.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Black tea leaves 3 tbsp
Milk 400ml
Water 200ml
Cardamom 5 pods
Clove 2
Sugar 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Lightly crush the cardamom pods.
Bring the water, cardamom, and cloves to a boil in a pot.
Add the tea leaves and simmer 2 minutes.
Add the milk and sugar and bring to a boil 2–3 times, watching that it doesn't boil over.
Strain into small glasses.

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