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Kuwaiti Traditional Tea

"This is the typical tea you will find in regular housed in Kuwait. Its deliciously aromatic and the spices give it a rich taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Saffron and tea work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

1 cup
Prep2 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Pour the water into a small saucepan and bring it to a boil over medium-high heat.

  2. Add the broken cardamom pods and the saffron powder to the boiling water, then lower the heat to medium-low.

  3. Simmer uncovered for 5 minutes so the cardamom and saffron release their flavor into the water.

  4. Add the tea bags and steep off the heat for 3 minutes, pressing them gently against the side of the pan.

  5. Remove and discard the tea bags. If using, stir the white sugar into the hot tea until dissolved.

  6. Strain the tea through a fine mesh sieve into a cup and serve hot.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Saffron + teatop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Cardamom + saffrontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cardamom + teatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Cardamom + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Tea + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,204 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cardamom, tea, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Saffronthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cardamom, tea, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).