Green Tea Leaves (For Kahwa)
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Description
Curled unfermented green tea leaves for making 'Kahwa', the traditional tea of India's northernmost Kashmir region. Unlike Japanese green tea, boiled with massive spices.
Classification: For Maniacs,Tea Leaves,Noble Aroma,Diet
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How to use
Ingredients
- Green tea leaves(Kashmir origin recommended)
Instructions
- Boil water, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cloves in special copper pot (Samovar) or pan.
- Toss a pinch of green tea leaves and saffron into boiling water, simmer on low for mins extracting aroma and golden color.
- Put crushed almonds and sugar (or honey) at glass bottom, pour hot tea over to finish. Absolutely no milk.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
Cinnamon、Cardamom、Saffron
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese Sencha (flavor changes combining with spices but subbable)
Pairing
Kashmiri Kahwa (Green tea with saffron)
Trivia
[Hardcore] Called 'Kahwa'. If Indian black tea (Chai) is 'violent sweetness of milk/sugar', Kashmiri green tea (Kahwa) is 'elegant refinement of spices/saffron'. At weddings/banquets in Muslim-heavy regions, absolutely this Kahwa, not coffee or Chai, is served as the welcome drink.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] At snowy Himalayan foothills, slurp hot tea mixing bottom-sunk almond crunchiness and saffron's intense noble aroma, burning the chilled body from inside!
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