The most popular drink in Morocco is mint tea. Everyone knows about it and loves it, but making good it remains a challange for some people.

For Moroccans, mint tea is more than cup of tea, itis a symbole of hospitality. Moreover ;it’s important as earl grey is for the British and green tea is for the Chinese. We serve it at any time of the day with sweet and savoury foods; it’s kind of always tea o’clock in Morocco. In addition, mint tea in Morocco is not always mint-flavored. It can be made with different herbs such as sage, thyme, absinthe, chamomile, and so on, especially in winter. Sometimes we even mix different flavors at the same time.

The ingredients are fresh mint, sugar, water and dried leaves of greaen  tea. Gunpowder tea is a type of green Chinese tea in which each leaf has been rolled into a small round pellet. When the round pellets are hydrated they become surprisingly large, take a look it, it’s fun !

First of all the teapot is rinsed and we add about tow big spoons of geen tea leaves.  A  cup of boiling water is poured aver the leaves and left to steep for about 3 minutes. This first infusion is carefully poured out and set aside. After that another cup of water is adde to rinse the tea and this second one is throwed.

We return the first infusion that we had set asid to the teapot, add sugar, and fill the pot with boiling water. The te ais left to simmer for about five minutes to develop its full flaver.Finally  fresh mint is added and to complete the tradidional preparation and to to blend the flavors the te ais mixed by pouring a cupful from the the teapot and returning it several times untill the vlavor is balanced ; Then it is served