Masala Chai
photo by alvinakatz
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 6 black tea bags (inexpensive tea works best. I like Lipton's Yellow label)
- 2 -3 fennel seeds
- 1⁄3 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 cloves
- 1 inch gingerroot
- 4 cardamom seeds
- 2 cups 2% low-fat milk
- water (4 mugs)
- 8 teaspoons sugar
directions
- Put water in pot.
- Grate ginger.
- Pound cardamom in a mortar.
- Add all the ingredients to the water except milk and sugar. Bring to a full boil.
- Add the milk and bring to a near boil.
- Add sugar.
- Strain and drink.
- All the amounts are approximate. Adjust to taste.
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Reviews
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At first I thought the spices were very hard to detect in this chai but I left in the spices to steep longer after removing the tea bags (I used Traditional Medicinals red raspberry leaf tea bags to be healthier) and it made a nice chai which I also made dairy free but adding extra home-made almond milk & date syrup to sweeten (hate sugar). I increased the amount of spices using about 1/8 tsp fennel seeds, a small stick of cinnamon, 4 whole cardamom pods, grinding the seeds plus 2 more bruised ones (I love cardamom), plus the rest of the ingredients. Made for Veggie Swap #46 ~ May 2012 ~