The most distinctive snack in Lhasa: sweet tea.

As the saying goes, "Without sweet tea, there would be no Lhasa". In Lhasa, there are sweet teahouses all over the street. A good day can start with a cup of sweet tea. For some people, drinking tea is a very important thing in daily life. You can drink sweet tea and chat in teahouses that can be seen everywhere. So what is the most distinctive snack in Lhasa culture? Come and have a look with me.

Lhasa sweet tea, which has a history of hundreds of years, has become a bright and characteristic drink in Lhasa food culture. Lhasa sweet tea is made of black tea juice, milk or milk powder and white sugar. It is sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition and deeply loved by people.

Sweet tea is milky yellow, opaque, slightly thick, steaming and fragrant. Drink it while it is hot, sweet and delicious. The production process of sweet tea is not complicated, and the materials are simple, mainly milk, black tea and sugar. Boil black tea juice, add milk and sugar, stir well and drink. Tea is black tea made in China; Milk can be fresh milk or bagged milk powder; Sugar is generally white sugar, brown sugar or rock sugar, depending on personal taste.

working methods

Raw materials: mainly black tea and milk powder, flavored with sugar.

Production steps

1, need to make black tea. Put about 1 piece of black tea into a special cloth bag (the cloth bag is put to filter the crumbs in the tea), and then put the tea bag into boiling water for about 5 minutes. In the process of cooking, you need to hold a cloth bag and keep stirring in the water. When the time is almost the same, squeeze the water out of the bag and dump the residue in the bag.

2. add milk powder. It takes 3 bags of milk powder to make a pot of sweet tea, with a total weight of 2 kg. Pour the milk powder into the blender, add the freshly cooked tea leaves, stir well and pour into the pot. After adding milk powder, there will be foam, which needs to be stirred constantly with a spoon, and the foam will gradually decrease. Adding three carefully selected milk powders of different brands, repeated experiments, according to the corresponding proportion, sweet tea will taste better and have its own unique characteristics.

3. black tea with sugar. Add 1 kg 3 sugar and stir well. After adding milk powder and sugar, be sure to boil the black tea, otherwise it will make you feel bloated and uncomfortable.

4. Cook black tea again. Repeat the first step, but this time the amount of black tea is about 2 Liang, and the cooking time is about five or six minutes. Because the bag containing black tea has been boiled in boiling water, it is very hot, so there is a trick when squeezing the bag: hold the bag in one hand, turn the bag with the other hand, and finally put the bag on the side of the pot and squeeze it with a spoon.

5. Sweet tea is made. Experienced masters will judge whether the concentration of tea fragrance is appropriate according to the color of sweet tea, and then see whether the sweetness is moderate through the taste of sweet tea. Finally, it is made into sweet tea, which is kept warm in a thermos and can be taken out for drinking at any time.

Have a few cups of sweet tea on the streets of Lhasa and enjoy a leisurely time. At the same time, you can learn about the contented and industrious daily life of Tibetans and be moved by their simplicity and piety. Therefore, the sweet tea in Lhasa is not only a kind of adjustment of life, but also a simple attitude towards life. Let's hurry and try to make a pot of delicious sweet tea by ourselves.