South Asian and Tibetan drink mainly consisting of butter churned with tea
Butter tea
Butter tea in a bowl
Alternative names
Boe cha, cha süma, goor goor cha, cha suskan
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
Cookbook: Butter tea
Media: Butter tea
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.
Buttertea, 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...
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