Kashmiri Spiced Green Tea Recipes

Steps:

• Boil 3 cups of water along with cinnamon, cardamom and cloves and pour over the tea. Leave to infuse over a very low flame for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, dissolve saffron in a little water by rubbing it gently.
• Strain the tea and add the saffron liquid together with almonds.
• Sweeten if you like and serve hot.

Steps:

• 1. In a spice or a coffee grinder, finely grind 2 almonds and the cardamom seeds. Remove to a bowl and mix in the cinnamon and saffron. Then coarsely grind the remaining 4 almonds and reserve.2. Place the water, tea leaves, 2 teaspoons sugar, and the almond-cinnamon mixture in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover the pan, and boil another 2 minutes to extract maximum flavor from the spices.3. Meanwhile, divide the reserved coarsely ground almonds into 2 cups. Then pour the tea through a tea or very fine-mesh strainer into the 2 teacups. Discard the spices and tea leaves. Serve hot, with more sugar on the side.From "1,000 Indian Recipes." Copyright 2002 by Neelam Batra. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.