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Suutei Tsai
Also known as: Сүүтэй цай
Hot Mongolian green tea boiled with milk and seasoned lightly with salt.
About Suutei Tsai
Suutei tsai is Mongolian milk tea, commonly served with meals and as an expression of hospitality. This profile follows a simple green-tea version of water, milk and salt rather than combining the richer butter, grain, meat or dumpling styles.
Green tea supplies a gently tannic, vegetal base that is softened by milk. Salt makes the drink savoury rather than sweet and brings out the dairy richness without turning the basic version into a meal-like tea.
The strained tea is pale tan and opaque, with a smooth, thin milk-tea body. Repeated ladling mixes and lightly aerates it, leaving a clean surface without the visible grains or solids found in richer regional versions.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Suutei Tsai
International Cuisine's Simple Green-Tea Suutei Tsai.
- WaterTea brewing liquid
- Green teaTannic tea base
- MilkCreamy dairy body
- SaltTraditional savoury seasoning
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Water:
- Green tea:
- Milk:
- Salt:
Origins & food traditions
International Cuisine supplies a complete simple suutei-tsai recipe using green tea, water, milk and salt and records the characteristic ladling method. Discover Mongolia independently explains that no one recipe represents every household, identifies the same four ingredients as the simple version and distinguishes butter-, grain-, meat- and dumpling-enriched regional styles. This profile therefore names its selected simple green-tea style without claiming universality.
Countries
- Mongolia
- MongoliaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Mongolian Cuisine
- Mongolian CuisineCatalogue link pending review