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Turkish Tea
Çay
- Difficulty
Easy
- Ready in
20 min
Published 2015
Tea is the most-consumed drink in Turkey. What’s more, the country is one of the world’s leading tea producers. Tea is the first brew of the morning, the one that welcomes a friend to the home and the one that you see carried around the streets of Istanbul on round trays all day long, by vendors who are constantly in motion.
Ingredients
1 teaspoon - granulated sugar, to taste
Method
Fill the lower part of the çaydanlik (Turkish teapot) with water, and put the tea in the upper part. Place the teapot over medium heat. After the water comes to the boil, pour some over the tea, and leave it to infuse for 15 minutes (keeping the lower part of the teapot over low heat; the water must remain hot). Pour the tea into a glass until about one-third full, and top up with boiling water