Having a headache? Here. Have some tea!
Put tea leaves into cold water and brew the tea for a while
Add milk and laddle the tea for several times. The more the better.
Start serving the tea beginning from the eldest person in Ger
If the host of the house offer you milk tea in a silver cup, you should appreciate and take it. It's the sign of respect
Feel free to take the gift and put it in your Deel's pocket
Khalkh Mongol Tea with Dried Meat (Jerky)
Firstly, boil black tea. Prepare another pot and make it warm. Put raw rice and sheep tail slices into that pot and fry them for 5 minutes. Then add the boiled black tea. You should hear a very strange and strong noise while adding the tea. The last step is adding dried meat, sheep tail slices, and sheep/goat ribs. Add salt to your liking. This tea is called “Tea with Dried meat” and is most commonly used throughout Central Mongolia. Nowadays, people tend to add dumplings to make it tastier and more edible.
Durvud Tea
Boil plain water in an iron pot. Add tea leaves and boil a little more to make it adjust. Then add milk, salt and yellow butter and ladle continuously until the tea boils and butter melts away. Yellow butter is made from white butter. The white butter is heated in a pot until the yellow butter-oil is melted. This is separated from the white butter cream. Nomads strongly believe that this tea is extremely good for health.
Kazakh Tea
This one is extra delicious! You will need about 3 liters of water, 50gr tea leaves, 30gr mare’s milk oil, 10gr butter cream and salt. Mix all these and put into the pot and let it boil. No ladling. When serving the tea, it must be hot and add more butter. This tea tastes so strong but at the same time amazingly pleasant like you can’t get enough of it.
Torguud Tea
Boil black tea with strong fire and add lots of milk afterwards to make it thick and tasty. This tea can even replace a meal!
Zakhchin Tea
Put tea leaves into warm water and make it boil. Leave the tea boiling for a while until it turns really black! Pour the tea onto boiled milk. After a while, add salt and mare milk oil and ladle the tea several times. Zakhchin people serve this tea in an open pot and drink it while it’s hot.
Dariganga's Rice Tea
Put millet and tea leaves into water and boil it. Then add milk, salt and yellow butter (melted butter from livestock). While serving, make sure to stir the tea well. Dariganga people love to mix millet from tea with cookies fried in butter, curds, and clotted cream.
Tea with Nettle
In May and June, when nettles are young and less than a foot high, people collect and dry them out. Pestle them and use the powder in tea frequently. Use about 30 grams of powder in 3 liters of water. Tea with nettle is good for people who have high blood pressure.
If you are a tea lover, make sure to try Mongolian milk tea. Mongolians, mostly people from the city, like to drink milk tea in the mornings and on weekends when all family members are gathered together. Any kind of milk tea can be beneficial for your health and body. And again, Mongolian tea is a valuable medicine which is tasty and nourishing at the same time. Visit any nomad family while traveling around Mongolia, and you’ll be invited to have a cup of hot tea!
