Tea with dumplings Mongolian Banshtai tsai
Origin of the recipe
Mongolian milk tea, suutei tsai, is more of a tea-based milk soup than a drink. In addition to milk, it's made with flour, rice, butter, and salt instead of sugar. And if you cook homemade bansh dumplings in it, you can have a first course, a second course, and an invigorating tea all in one bowl!
What do you need for cooking?
Ingredients
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Milk
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Water
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Rice
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Flour
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Butter
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Salt
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Dumplings
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Pressed green tea
Kitchen utensils
- Spoon
- Ladle
- Ladle
Want to try something unusual? Learn how to make banshtai tsai, a traditional Mongolian tea with dumplings that will surprise you with its unique flavor and aroma.
Step-by-step recipe
Step 1:
Crush a tablet of Chinese pressed green tea in a mortar.
Step 2:
Pour the tea into a ladle, add water and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Step 3:
Pour in the milk and stir until the tea boils.
Step 4:
Strain the tea into a clean container.
Step 5:
Melt butter in a saucepan, add rice and flour and lightly fry.
Step 6:
Pour in the strained tea with milk and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes.
Step 7:
Add the dumplings and cook for another 5 minutes after they float to the surface.
Step 8:
Salt the tea and serve.
Cooking tips
You can use a handful of regular green tea.
When stirring your tea, use a special technique: lift the spoon with the tea and pour it back in. Repeat this several times (according to a folk recipe, 50 to 100 times).
The original recipe uses bansh, a Mongolian version of Buryat buuz, the size of regular dumplings.
You can also add a little butter to the tea.
