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Preparing Yerba Mate : Terere

 Terere: Yerba Mate

The Terere Method

Terere is especially popular in Paraguay and Brazil. Terere is made similarly to the Traditional Method yet Juice or cold water with ice cubes is used in place of the hot water. It is often enjoyed alone or with the addition of breads, sweets, croissants, crackers, etc.

Advantages

  • No need for heating up water.
  • Can use juice for the most combinations of nutrients and flavor, while still extracting nutrients from the tea.
  • Gets more nutrients and chemicals from the tea than from Mate Cocido.
  • Less steps than the Traditional Method.

Disadvantages

  • Does not extract as many nutrients as a YerbaCup or the Traditional Method.
  • Requires the development of a relationship between you and a gourd.

Easiest Explanation

  1. Pour some yerba mate into your cured gourd.
  2. Put straw into yerba mate.
  3. Pour Juice or very cold water with an ice cube onto some of the yerba mate.
  4. Drink

Flavors or Additives

Unlike the Traditional method, Terere is more often consumed with a flavor additive. All of the additives used in the Traditional Method are commonly used with Terere, but Terere benefits from the additional nutrients in many juices.

Some of the more popular juices to use are lime, orange, lemon, mango, peach, or grapefruit. Combinations of these juices as well as other juices help make Terere a unique, nutritional option for extracting the nutrients of the tea into your favorite juice.

Yerba Mate drinkers have experimented with an endless variety of juices, even beer and lime cola have their supporters. Just replace the water with Juice.

Detailed Explanation: Terere

Fill cured gourd between a little more than half full to 2/3 full of yerba mate and optional smaller dried additives (e.g.., Other herbs or small fruit peels). Tilt gourd until yerba mate and additives are along side of gourd arriving near the top (shown in green).

Optional Step- Cover with hand, turn upside down, and shake vigorously to help prepare the yerba mate. This moves the smaller leaf particles to the top in order to prevent the straw (bombilla) from clogging Turn it back over carefully on its side. Try to keep the yerba inclined along one side during the entire preparation and drinking process.

Insert filter end of straw at an angle into the deepest part of the yerba mate as the above image demonstrates.

4. Pour Juice or Very cold water into the gourd. Try to wet as little of the yerba near the top when filling the gourd with liquid..

5. Drink! Optional: add larger additives like ice cubes, mint leaves or cinnamon sticks into the gourd as desired, or add other additives like honey or lemon juice as desired.

Some people love the first sip because it is the most nutrient rich. Others do not like the first sip because it is either too strong or the temperature of the tea is not cool enoughl for their enjoyment. For those that dislike the first sip, they will discard it before swallowing.

6. Repeat step 5 until you have had enough. As you drink it, try to wet as little of the yerba near the top when re-filling the gourd with liquid, this will help make the tea last longer and keep it from floating to the top. The goal is to always keep the tea in the above tilted shape during the entire process. This helps to create the needed suction to extract the nutrients and protect the straw from getting clogged.