Served in beautiful and ornately-decorated metal or ceramic jars and poured steaming hot into cups, this tea is delightful and delicious. It’s the perfect way to start your morning or to settle down your tastebuds after a spicy meal.

Fortunately for us, even if you don’t live in Morocco, this tea is easy to prepare at home. Here’s how.

Ingredients

• 1 liter of water
• 3-4 bunches of fresh mint leaves
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 2 tablespoons of loose-leaf green tea

Instructions

Start off by pouring the liter of water into a tea pot and placing it on the stove to oil. Wait until the tea pot screeches and the water is boiling.

Once it’s done and has cooled off just a tad, add the mint leaves and the 4 tablespoons of sugar to the water and stir.

Next, you’ll want to place the loose leaf tea in an appropriate container and put it into the teapot. Let the tea brew for 3-4 minutes, approximately.

Take the tea leaves out, and you’re done! Pour from height into the tea cups in order to aerate the beverage.

Enjoy!

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We’ve traveled to a lot of countries, but of all of them, our favorite to eat in just might be the North African country of Morocco.

Morocco offers fantastic landscapes and cities such as Marrakech and Rabat to get to know, but one of our favorite things to do there is simply to eat. From world-renowned dishes like couscous to lesser-known delicacies such as Moroccan mint tea, you can spend weeks there and try something new and delicious every day.

Many foreigners have traveled to Morocco and fallen in love with its cuisine, but not too many are like Amanda Mouttaki. This food expert, who is from the United States, actually got married and started a family in Morocco. She now spends her time channeling her love for the country and its cuisine on her Instagram account and with her company, Marrakech Food Tours.

On her Instagram account, Mouttaki shows off the best of Moroccan cuisine. She spends her days leading foreigners on tours throughout the Moroccan city of Marrakech, using her local knowledge and expertise to show off the best bites of her adoptive city.

If you’re interested in Morocco and its expansive, mouth-watering culinary tradition, be sure to give Amanda a follow. You’ll discover something new every day, and might even find inspiration to take a trip to Morocco or to start preparing the country’s best dishes in your own kitchen!

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Briouat is something you might not be familiar with, but in Morocco, its completely standard. The base of this pastry is warka dough, which is similar to filo dough but made with stronger flour so it’s easier to manipulate but not as tender and flaky as filo.

In Morocco, briouat can be either sweet or savory, which means you have a lot of options!

For the savory ones, which are called kefta because they have ground meat, you’ll often find them with beef, lamb, or a mixture or both. They can be quite spicy, but they are so flavorful and delicious you have to try them!

The sweet versions are also perfect, because they’re sweet but not cloyingly so, and have an awesome flavor.

These briouat are made with a special almond paste that is mixed with flavors like orange flower water, cinnamon, and other awesome tastes. It’s then topped with sesame seeds and usually covered in honey or a honey syrup which gives it a little sticky baklava-esque touch.

But whichever ones you prefer, you will not be disappointed with briouat.

The post Have You Heard of this Morrocan Treat? appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Served in beautiful and ornately-decorated metal or ceramic jars and poured steaming hot into cups, this tea is delightful and delicious. It’s the perfect way to start your morning or to settle down your tastebuds after a spicy meal.

Fortunately for us, even if you don’t live in Morocco, this tea is easy to prepare at home. Here’s how.

Ingredients

• 1 liter of water
• 3-4 bunches of fresh mint leaves
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 2 tablespoons of loose-leaf green tea

Instructions

Start off by pouring the liter of water into a tea pot and placing it on the stove to oil. Wait until the tea pot screeches and the water is boiling.

Once it’s done and has cooled off just a tad, add the mint leaves and the 4 tablespoons of sugar to the water and stir.

Next, you’ll want to place the loose leaf tea in an appropriate container and put it into the teapot. Let the tea brew for 3-4 minutes, approximately.

Take the tea leaves out, and you’re done! Pour from height into the tea cups in order to aerate the beverage.

Enjoy!

The post Here’s How to Make Moroccan Mint Tea at Home appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

We’ve traveled to a lot of countries, but of all of them, our favorite to eat in just might be the North African country of Morocco.

Morocco offers fantastic landscapes and cities such as Marrakech and Rabat to get to know, but one of our favorite things to do there is simply to eat. From world-renowned dishes like couscous to lesser-known delicacies such as Moroccan mint tea, you can spend weeks there and try something new and delicious every day.

Many foreigners have traveled to Morocco and fallen in love with its cuisine, but not too many are like Amanda Mouttaki. This food expert, who is from the United States, actually got married and started a family in Morocco. She now spends her time channeling her love for the country and its cuisine on her Instagram account and with her company, Marrakech Food Tours.

On her Instagram account, Mouttaki shows off the best of Moroccan cuisine. She spends her days leading foreigners on tours throughout the Moroccan city of Marrakech, using her local knowledge and expertise to show off the best bites of her adoptive city.

If you’re interested in Morocco and its expansive, mouth-watering culinary tradition, be sure to give Amanda a follow. You’ll discover something new every day, and might even find inspiration to take a trip to Morocco or to start preparing the country’s best dishes in your own kitchen!

The post This Instagram Foodie Shows Off the Best Bites of Morocco appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Briouat is something you might not be familiar with, but in Morocco, its completely standard. The base of this pastry is warka dough, which is similar to filo dough but made with stronger flour so it’s easier to manipulate but not as tender and flaky as filo.

In Morocco, briouat can be either sweet or savory, which means you have a lot of options!

For the savory ones, which are called kefta because they have ground meat, you’ll often find them with beef, lamb, or a mixture or both. They can be quite spicy, but they are so flavorful and delicious you have to try them!

The sweet versions are also perfect, because they’re sweet but not cloyingly so, and have an awesome flavor.

These briouat are made with a special almond paste that is mixed with flavors like orange flower water, cinnamon, and other awesome tastes. It’s then topped with sesame seeds and usually covered in honey or a honey syrup which gives it a little sticky baklava-esque touch.

But whichever ones you prefer, you will not be disappointed with briouat.

The post Have You Heard of this Morrocan Treat? appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.