Warm Apricot Tea

Ingredients

• 8-10 golden apricots
• 2 tea bags
• 4-6 tablespoons brown sugar
• 4 green cardamoms
• 2 inch cinnamon 
• Fresh mint sprigs for garnish
• Cookies for serving

Method

1. Roughly chop the apricots.
2. Heat a non-stick pan, add chopped apricots, brown sugar and 4 cups water and mix well.
3. Once the mixture comes to a boil, break open the green cardamom pods and add to the pan. Add cinnamon, mix and cook on medium heat for 6-8 minutes or till apricots turn soft.
4. Discard the green cardamoms and cinnamon. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve into a jar.
5. Transfer the cooked apricots into a blender jar and grind to a fine paste.
6. Dip tea bags into the stock in the jar and let the flavour infuse for 1 minute.
7. Add a spoon of ground apricot mixture into each of 4 individual cups and pour the tea mixture over.
8. Garnish with mint sprigs and serve hot with cookies.