🇦🇷 Argentina cuisine · #15
Mate
Time10 min
Serves4
Ingredients5
An infusion of yerba mate leaves sipped from a hollow gourd through a metal straw (bombilla) and passed among friends — the symbol of Argentine hospitality.
Ingredients
Method
- Fill the gourd two-thirds with yerba, cover, shake and tilt it.
- Wet the low side with a little warm water.
- Insert the bombilla into the wet side.
- Pour in hot (not boiling) water, sip, refill and pass it on.