Рецепт Sulaimani Tea/Lemon tea/Malabar black tea/Malabar Spiced Tea

Written by: Sulaimani is a form of black lemon tea popular in the Malabar region of Kerala. The name is of Arabic origin. It is said that Prophet Mohammed used to enjoy drinking a beverage called ghava with dates and black pepper (but no tea) added to it. With time, the Arabs inherited the tradition of drinking ghava but made some slight changes to the ancient Later, the beverage was brought to the southern Malabar coast of India by Arab traders who were frequent visitors there. The cultural intermingling that followed led to the addition of local spices and the replacement of dates with sugar. Somewhere along the line, tea was added to the It was also in Malabar that it started being called Sulaimani — in Arabic,…