Butter tea
South Asian and Tibetan drink mainly consisting of butter churned with tea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Butter tea, also known as Bho jha (Tibetan: བོད་ཇ་, Wylie: bod ja, "Tibetan tea"), cha süma (Tibetan: ཇ་སྲུབ་མ་, Wylie: ja srub ma, "churned tea", Mandarin Chinese: sūyóu chá (酥油茶), su ja (Tibetan: སུ་ཇ, Wylie: Suja, "churned tea") in Dzongkha or gur gur cha in the Ladakhi language), is a drink of the people in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, Kashmir, Pakistan especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, East Turkestan, Tibet and western regions of modern-day China, Central Asia and the Caribbean. Traditionally, it is made from tea leaves, yak butter, water, and salt, although butter made from cow's milk is increasingly used, given its wider availability and lower cost.
Alternative names | Boe cha, cha süma, goor goor cha, cha suskan |
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Type | Beverage |
Place of origin | South Asia and Tibet |
Region or state | South/Central/East Asia and Caribbean |
Main ingredients | Tea leaves, yak butter, salt |