Chapti and African Tea Please

The dough ready to be fried!

Tea Time!!

Finished tea!

Sam, Salima and the girls!

Straining the tea!

Ella!!

So being obviously new to the area and working at Smile we are often invited to peoples’ homes for meals. Since we have arrived we have been to five different homes, which is usually a fun all day event, and recently we went to Sam and Salima’s!
Salima works as a nurse at Smile Africa, they have two daughters, Ella (3) and Chloe (1). Now most of you are probably thinking “Oh that’s fun, they get real African meals!” Well, yes it is fun and the food is great but, Africans eat ALOT!! It is so nice that most of the workers at Smile are pretty gracious to us because we can’t eat nearly as much as Africans do, which is kind of an ongoing joke between us.
We went to Sam and Salima’s on Sunday afternoon and enjoyed an amazing meal of rice, beans, chipati, and fresh passion fruit juice. (It is also custom to bring gifts to the home that you go to.) We had asked before if Salima would teach us how to make milk tea and little did we know we were going to learn how to make Chapati and African milk tea.
We started with chapati! It’s basically flour, water, and oil. The pictures below give you a visual step by step of how to make it. We felt like real African women cooking, they were very encouraging too! haha. The milk had started heating while we made chapati and its basically milk, some water, and tea. African milk tea is milk boiled with tea so it has the flavor. You then add a spice called Tea Masala, kind of like a chai taste, to the tea which makes it delicious!!
We had a fun day learning new ways of cooking. The people here are so wonderful and hospitable to welcome us into their homes! They love to just give, give, give, no matter what they have. It’s amazing!

Milk Tea, heating!

I'm making Chapati!

Chloe!

Completed Chapati!