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Salmia, Moroccan Sage Tea
Created by Chef Zohra
Green tea softened with sage, sweetened in the pot, and poured for the guest who arrives tired, chilled, or needing the small mercy of a warm glass.
Sage doesn't enter quietly. The moment it touches the hot tea, it gives that clean, camphor-green scent that Moroccans know from winter kitchens, tired stomachs, and throats asking for kindness. Salmia is not ceremony like mint tea, but it is still welcome. You make it when someone needs tending.
Use a light hand. Sage is generous, then suddenly stern if you leave it too long. Rinse the green tea first to take away the rough bitterness, then steep the salmia only until the glass smells herbal and rounded, not sharp. That is the whole judgment here. La balance est dans les yeux (the scale is in the eyes), and also in the nose.
Serve it sweet, in small glasses, while everyone is still gathered close. A table is a door you leave open, and some nights the door is held by one pot of tea.
Ingredients
Chinese gunpowder green tea
Quantity
1 tbsp
water
Quantity
750ml
fresh sage leaves
Quantity
6 leaves
or 1 tbsp dried Moroccan salmia
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Chinese gunpowder green tea | 1 tbsp |
| water | 750ml |
| fresh sage leavesor 1 tbsp dried Moroccan salmia | 6 leaves |
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