Foraging Wild Tea Leaves in the Mountains

Greetings from the picturesque Azerbaijani mountains. Today, among the incredible landscapes, you'll see another day of peaceful rural life. No stress and trendy gadgets. Only you and nature. Welcome to Faraway Village. Azerbaijani culture is impossible to imagine without tea ceremony. Drinking tea is always going with lemon, homemade jams, sweets and local pastry. Also, it's popular to put herbs, flowers and berries, and to drink from the special cups called almudu or bogmali. Please, like the video and subscribe to support us. We can do even more inspiring content about life in the village. What can be more satisfying than the clearest air, green, beautiful mountains, birds singing and your closest person behind? All of this is a truly aesthetic of life, far away from the noisy and stressful life in the city. Our beautiful small friends are also enjoying this pleasant day, and that's so cute to watch them. Making the tea is a process that needs your patience. Azerbaijani people are very serious when it's about the quality. That's why we need to sort the leaves. This way we can get the highest quality of the tea. And sure, we always try to create something from the wood. Today is not the exception. When you're creating something, you become an artist, even if you don't think so. Art is for everyone, because art is natural for people. Want to see more traditions and landscapes of amazing Azerbaijan? Please, follow us on Insta and keep in touch with us. Now the best leaves are sorted, we need it to dry. This is not only for keep it fresh. The process of drying is creating smell and aroma of the tea that you know. That needs time, but the result is wonderful. This is why Azerbaijani tea is that good. Get back to our wooden construction. This is a pleasure and a healing for the soul to work under the open sky, when this beauty is all around you. And even the sounds of the tools are not annoying. Our frame was not for the picture. But if you hold it and look at mountains, it looks like. Special fabric gonna help the leaves to dry in a right way. While we continue to work, please subscribe and click the bell. It'll help you to always stay updated. There are some leaves left, let's try to boil them just like that. Hot water can reveal aroma and properties of the leaves and herbs. Ancient people made a lot of decoctions from forests, meadows and gardens plants to heal, stay energized or relax. Now we need to rinse it up. When something needs time, just relax and trust the process. One more pleasant thing about life in a village is bee garden. The natural good honey is an expensive thing to buy, but we always have it. It always good for cooking, drinking tea, sharing with family and friends. Sure, you can buy a lot of things in supermarket. But it's so nice to eat and drink something that you made with love. And everything made by your own is twice more delicious. Nature is inspiring. If you live in harmony with it and with your thoughts, your imagination will be more powerful. Have you ever thought that tea leaves could become a salad? No waste and a lot of taste. This is so joyful. To cook unusual things and imagine surprised faces of your family eating it. Moments that leave warm memories in your heart and food that unite people. Some bitterness of tea leaves, sweetness of paprika and sourness of lemon juice, the nice combo that works with the rules of professional cooking seems to be very delicious. Of course, we need seasoning, some salt to equalize the tastes and some dressings to add more interesting notes. To collect some honey doesn't mean just go and get. It's a special time you can go to the bee garden, special ways of collecting and special robe to wear. And then you can get that liquid gold, sweet and delicious. There are so much kinds of the honey, but one of the best is from the mountains. Now time for preservation. We put a lot of salt and vinegar for keeping this snack fresh. And let's put it in the jars. Our unusual snack is ready. It's so wonderful to try something new. There is even an idea that trying new things forms new neural connections. That means you can generate ideas, feel and recognize more emotions and develop creativity. Watch more ideas and inspiring short videos in our Instagram. We'll be happy to see you there. Drinking the tea must go with something incredibly nice and sweet. That's time to cook it for the future tea time. Azerbaijan is famous by dried fruits. High quality, delicious and variety of kinds. This is what we like and this is what we do really good. And sure there are a lot of recipes with dries fruits. Also a lot of recipes are salty. We like to mix it with the meat, rice, vegetables, etc. All of the fruits must be grinded. It's nice to have an old meat grinder. You can use it for everything and it needs no electricity. This is the first one. Wow, it's so beautiful. Yes, it is. The true natural honey. Mountain one has the unique tart notes of fruits and flowers. But it's pure and sweet. The gum of our childhood and the beeswax. Every village kid begs parents to have some. It has some honey left inside. So you chew it and eat honey at the same time. By the way, it's much healthier than the gum. Some honey for the mix to be more delicious and sticky. The typical oriental tastes is such a vibe. And now it needs to become balls. There are traditional oriental sweets. Healthy, with no white sugar. Fast and amazing by taste. Now it's time to prepare samovar. Clear village water is perfect for the tea time. Good work deserves good rest. And that's what we'll do after a long day. Relax by the cup of tea and some nice snacks. Seems that tea leaves are already dry under the sun. We work hard and nature helps us. Making some processes fast and easy. And we're already done with all of the work. Living in a village is not easy. But it's amazing to be side by side with mountains, forests, fresh cold streams, animals and birds. And such a pleasure to reap the fruits of one's labor. Azerbaijani tea leaves are one of the best. We export it and people from other countries drinks it with pleasure. That's because the nature gives a lot for this small plants. The taste of it is rich, deep and unique. And with traditional sweets and honey it is simply perfect. This was faraway village. Peaceful, pleasant and made with love. Let your life be full of warm moments and memories. Don't forget to subscribe and click the bell. Thanks for watching and see you next time.