Egyptian yellow tea "Helba"

[Warm yellow tea perfectly warms, cool - quenches thirst. This drink cheers up and invigorates.]

Egyptian yellow tea "Helba"

Category: The drinks

Kitchen: egyptian

Ingredients
Fenugreek*	1 tsp
Water	200-250 ml.
Sugar or honey (optional)	taste

Cooking method

Warm yellow tea perfectly warms, cool - quenches thirst. This drink cheers up and invigorates.

Fry the fenugreek seeds until a nutty flavor appears.

Pour hot water, add sugar or honey (I did not add) and boil over low heat for 8-10 minutes

... That's all! A healthy drink is ready! It can be drunk both hot and cold. I like ice and lemon better. You can add ginger

The dish is designed for

1 serving

Time for preparing:

10-15 minutes

Note

* he is Shambhala, helba, fenugrek, chaman, abish, camel grass

The fenugreek plant is truly unique. A detailed description of its medicinal properties is found in the manuscripts of Avicenna, Hippocrates, in the treatises of Chinese healers. It is well known and studied at present.
It is grown as a food, medicinal and forage crop in India, China, South and Central Europe, Ethiopia, Egypt, South America, South Transcaucasia.
It is an annual plant 40-70 cm tall. The presence of coumarin in the chemical composition gives a strong characteristic smell to flowers, fruits and leaves. Fruits (beans) are used to make tea. The pods are rather large, up to 10 cm long, the seeds are up to 5 mm in diameter.
The health-improving effect of yellow tea is due to the value of its fruits, a real storehouse of trace elements, vitamins, amino acids, etc.
Fenugreek fruits contain:

mucous (up to 30%) and bitter substances,
rutin,
coumarin,
steroidal saponins and phytosterols,
nicotinic acid (vitamin PP) - 3.5-18 mg%,
flavonoids,
trigonelline alkaloid (0.3%),
essential oil (0.3%),
fatty oil (5-8%),
proteins (up to 25%),
tannins,
vitamins A, C and B1, B2, B9 (folic acid) and enzymes,
essential amino acids,
nitrogenous substances,
iron,
potassium,
phosphorus,
sodium,
magnesium,
zinc,
arsenic,
starch.

1. Yellow tea is recommended for chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as in cases of spasms or any other painful reaction to unfamiliar food.
2. This drink is useful for skin diseases.
3. Egyptian yellow tea helps to improve mood.
4. This tea is indicated for unbalanced diet and heavy physical exertion, as well as for constant stress.
5. In combination with drugs, yellow tea is used for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and joint diseases.
6. Tea is used to treat impotence and infectious diseases of the genitourinary system.
7. This drink relieves pain during the menstrual cycle (fenugreek is a strong antispasmodic).
8. Tea is good for kidney disease.
9. Yellow tea from Egypt is indispensable for colds as an effective antipyretic and expectorant.
10. This tea is especially useful for overweight people, as it normalizes metabolic processes.
11. This tea is recommended for nursing mothers, as it helps to increase lactation. Tea boosts immunity and boosts good mood.

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Looks tempting and wants to take a sip! Flax, and without ginger, what will it taste like?

[Marish]

Flax, and without ginger, what will it taste like?

Marish, do you know how this shambhala fenugreek smells?
It has such an unusual smell. It even seems to me harsh. To be honest, I don't like this smell. Because of it, I didn't dare to try it for a long time. But because of such usefulness, I had to overpower myself.Tastes better than smell Especially with lemon

Do you know how this Shambhala fenugreek smells?
Tastes better than smell Especially with lemon

Well, it smells like all legumes.
And that when brewed, the smell disappears, or does it smell, but less?
And yet, Lenochka, please, clarify - to brew whole grains, not grind?

[Ol]

Well, it smells like all legumes.

Well, I don't know, for example, the smell of peas or beans does not irritate me at all

And that when brewed, the smell disappears, or does it smell, but less?

No, Oldoes not disappear. But it tastes good

It smells like mushrooms, you can even confuse it.

Well, the smell of beans doesn’t make me nervous, if it’s not tea.
I have a bag. They gave me a treat, said they had tea, but they didn't know how to use it. I have grains identified that fenugreek. That spice - I realized that you can drink like tea too, but grind, do not grind, I did not find out.
Thank you for putting this tea out. Very handy for me.

It has a mushroom aroma, and the taste, if gnawed, is like old beans, dry, even slightly bitter.

[glad]

glad, and how do you use it?

And I use it everywhere: in bread, in mashed potatoes, in fillings with cabbage or meat, in soups, especially with mushrooms, in creamy sauces. I have both powder and whole seeds.

[Olya,]

That spice - I realized that you can drink like tea too, but grind, do not grind, I did not find out. Thank you for putting this tea out. Very handy for me.

Olya, you can and grind Use it for health

[Ol]

It has a mushroom aroma

Ol, and what mushrooms smell like that? I didn't even have such thoughts
At my work, the girls are hooked on this tea, only they do not brew it, but they brew it in a teapot. I tell them that it is better to cook it, they still do it their own way

Probably at work there are no conditions for "cooking". Or do they like it more?

at work there are no conditions for "cooking"

Yes, electric stove

Or do they like it more?

Well, maybe ... I liked the boiled one more

During the Egyptian holidays, we brought yellow tea from there.
I really like the aroma of both dry tea and brewed tea. We drink it with milk and honey. Now we suffer that it is not possible to go to Egypt, and the supply of tea is melting.