Preparation time : 2 minutes
Cooking time : 2 minutes
Serves : 2 members
Description
After a heavy meal of biriyani or anything like such at home the sulaimaani tea is a must drink to make you feel light to awaken you from the drowsiness. This tea is flavoured with spices and garnished with saffron which works perfect to alert you. This sulaimaani tea is actually the Indian version of the Arabic ghava tea where we changed it a bit to our standards. The arabs drink their ghawa tea with dates beside so they add no sugar but here we add sugar as we drink it as it is with out any accomplishment’s.
Me having a weakness towards hot and light beverages, I am totally in love with the sulaimaani tea. I can have it any time of the day. The first time made sulaimaani tea as a new bride, it was a total flop show as the honey coloured sulaimaani tea looked black instead. I didn’t know what went wrong. Later my mother – in – law let me know that the secret to make a good sulaimaani tea is the lesser the tea dust the better the flavour. There after, I always make sure to use 1/8 teaspoon of tea dust for one cup of water which works perfectly well. Now that I have shared our family secret of making a good sulaimaani tea with no more further delay, gear up give a try.
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Water | 3 cups |
| Tea dust | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Cinnamon | 1 inch piece crushed |
| Cardamom | 2 crushed |
| Saffron | a pinch |
| Lemon juice | a teaspoon |
| Sugar | 3 teaspoons ( I add 5 teaspoons ) |
Method
- Boil water with cinnamon + cardamom crushed. Add tea dust and boil. Remove from heat and keep covered for five minutes.
- Strain the tea. Add lemon juice, sugar and saffron. Mix well and serve hot.
