Chai

"Adapted from Williams-Sonoma Outdoors Series, Snow Country Cooking, by Diane Rossen Worthington (Time-Life Books, 1999)."
 
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Ready In:
33mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • With a mortar and pestle, coarsely grind the cinnamon sticks, allspice, cloves and peppercorns.
  • In a saucepan, combine the ground spices, water, cardamom pods and ginger.
  • Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Set aside, covered, for 10 minutes.
  • Add the tea bags or loose tea in a tea ball to a teapot.
  • Return the spiced water to a boil and pour into the teapot.
  • Let steep for 2-3 minutes , then strain the tea and serve with milk and honey on the side.

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Reviews

  1. This was a great comfort food. Smells wonderful as it cooks. Reminds me of the holidays. We will be making this again!
     
  2. I scaled this down to one serving and treated myself to it today. It came out nice, but I think the flavor of the spices was a little weak. (Say, 4 1/2 stars.) The fault could be with my spices, however, which were not the freshest, so I'm rounding up the rating to 5 stars. I think it also might be better to try and make at least 2 servings next time, and maybe steep the spices longer. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
     
  3. Like another reviewer I found this slightly weak. I used some ground allspice as I did not have the whole berries on had, also used powdered ginger but the ginger wasn't lacking, 1 Lipton Yellow Label tea bag which I find stronger than others, homemade almond milk, to taste, which I always use in our chai to be dairy free, creamed honey, plus the rest of the ingredients. Not a chai I will make again.
     
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