Spiced green tea

The first time my former student  me green tea from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, I discovered the joys of having green cardamom in tea, like they have there. Then, I started experimenting with cloves and cinnamon too, till I stumbled upon my second favourite Indian spice after black pepper, the black cardamom or badi elaichi. It's essential to most of our meat and fish gravies in northern and eastern India, but with some loose leaf green tea from China, Afghanistan, Darjeeling, Assam or Kenya, it's simply divine 💓