Montenegrin National Drinks:

Other drinks

Montenegro is extremely rich with healing herbs and from one generation to the other the traditional experiences and knowledge are being transferred concerning the gathering and preserving of the herbs, as well as the production of the teas.

Today there almost isn’t a plant kind which is not used for making of some tea, but there are several kinds which have been dominating already for decades such as: dog rose, peppermint, chamomile, primrose, nettle, thyme and others. Somewhat older Montenegrins can show you the secrets of production of mead. In the south, especially in Bar municipality the production of olive oil is a real art, because in some places the technologies several centuries old have been kept.

The spoon of olive oil with lemon even today are considered as great guards of health, and the old ones recommend it. Still, inviolable prime, when we are talking about the drinks, in Montenegro has the so-called Turkish coffee, which you can taste in any home or restaurant – an the way in which it is prepared is very simple – in a demitasse of boiling water you add a teaspoon of milled coffee and a teaspoon of sugar, put it back on the stove and boil it and you have made a strong drink which will refresh you and with which Montenegrins spend their days.