Kashmiri tea

In North India, more than in other regions of this not small country, they like to brew tea with spices - sometimes in milk, sometimes in water. Another favorite: pistachios or almonds. Use a large leaf tea: green or oolong tea.

Ingredients

• 4 tsp leafy green tea
• 4 glasses of bottled water
• 2 boxes of cardamom
• a pinch of saffron strands
• 1 cinnamon stick
• a small handful of peeled almonds or
• pistachios
• sugar or honey

Directions

1. Pour cold bottled water over the cardamom, saffron and cinnamon tea, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer on the heat for 5 minutes. The Kashmiris themselves use a special type of samovar for brewing tea.
2. Chop the nuts finely with a knife. Warm up the cups. Put some nuts in each cup, pour tea through a strainer, sweeten to taste.
3. Another way to make Kashmiri tea is to put chopped nuts in water along with the tea leaves. In this case, it is better to use nuts unpeeled from thin dark skin - they have much more flavor. Although the tea in this case will be dark.