The Arabic mint tea, wrongly called “Moroccan tea” is actually a tradition spread throughout North Africa.
It was during the Crimean War that green tea was introduced to North Africa through the port of Mogador (Essaouira) in Morocco and then to the Atlantic Sahara (Western Sahara and Mauritania), the Saoura Valley and the oases of Touat. The Tuaregs got used to drinking tea in the 1940s.
The Touareg, which is not delicate for its food, is refined for tea. He carefully distinguishes as a connoisseur with the different qualities, dedicates to his purchase, a margin of his resources. The Touareg chef Mohamed does not hide from Henry Lhote his enthusiasm for the tea:
“This liquor, you see, is gold, it warms the heart of my old years. Believe me, I could not answer your questions nor I would answer them all wrong, if I had not drunk this elixir, which has the power to remove the vapors, which otherwise always turn around our brain . Tea is the drink of the gods that loosens tongues and opens hearts. ”
It is traditionally prepared from Chinese green tea and Moroccan fresh mint (“nanah” mint). Of course, everyone cannot have access to fresh mint from the garden, which is why Leïla’s Arabic mint tea is an already prepared Arabic tea. Unlike many other mint teas , it contains natural and powerful mint leaves, having no artificial aroma.
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