About the dish
Tereré is a cold version of mate, a drink of the Guaraní peoples that has become an everyday ritual in Paraguay. A cup – a guampa of wood, gourd or horn – is filled with dried yerba mate and topped up with ice-cold water, often with pohã ñana herbs first crushed in a mortar: mint, lemongrass or lemon verbena (cedrón). It is sipped through a metal straw with a filter, the bombilla, while the host refills the cup and passes it on to the next person in the circle. Tereré quenches thirst in the heat and is a reason to sit and talk. In 2020 UNESCO inscribed the knowledge and practices of tereré in the culture of pohã ñana on its intangible heritage list.
Main ingredients
- yerba mate
- ice-cold water
- mint
- lemongrass
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Paraguay: Paraguay’s most popular drink – drunk all year round at home, at work and in the street.
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