How do you make "chai tea" from scratch?!
Heres plenty of recipes for you! Here's one....
Chai
1-1/2 cups water
1 inch stick of cinnamon
8 cardomom pods
8 whole cloves
2/3 cup milk
6 tsp. sugar (or to taste)
3 teaspoons any unperfumed loose black tea
Put 1-1/2 cups water in saucepan. Add the cinnamon, cardomom, and cloves and bring to a boil. Cover, turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the milk and sugar and bring to a simmer again. Throw in the tea leaves, cover, and turn ff the heat. After 2 minutes, strain the tea into two cups and serve immediately
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Heres plenty of recipes for you! Here's one....
Chai
1-1/2 cups water
1 inch stick of cinnamon
8 cardomom pods
8 whole cloves
2/3 cup milk
6 tsp. sugar (or to taste)
3 teaspoons any unperfumed loose black tea
Put 1-1/2 cups water in saucepan. Add the cinnamon, cardomom, and cloves and bring to a boil. Cover, turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the milk and sugar and bring to a simmer again. Throw in the tea leaves, cover, and turn ff the heat. After 2 minutes, strain the tea into two cups and serve immediately
you cant make it from a scratch what does it mean
Get tea leaves ,
Or go to some teashop
Well you need to boil water and tea bag and half and half milk idk?
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Chai is tea in Indian and Bengali lol.......Carefully hand select fresh and healthy tea leaves and mash using pistol into a powdery texture. Put into mesh bags to keep to refresh and allow water to be absorbed in to the bag. Pour hot water in a cup containing a tea bug and stir till dark... add pressure to the tea bag using the back of the tea spoon so flavour is maximised. Then pour milk and stir till medium brown. Take tea bag out and add sugar.... WALA!!! lol x
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Simple one cup chai
FROM:
Shyamala Parameswaran
I put a mug/cup of water to boil.
Add a 3/4 inch piece of ginger, crushed with a mallet to it and let the water boil a couple of minutes (to get the ginger essence in), then pour over tea-leaves (amt. depends on what tea leaves are used - I use Darjeeling and throw in one and a half heaped tsp) and let steep two mins. or until leaves are settled at the bottom of the pot.
Pour into mug add milk, sugar and enjoy!
You get a can of Mystic Chai mix from Sam's, or you get the liquid chai mix from GFS and mix it with milk and heat it up. Or you can get the chai tea bags and dunk them in hot milk and add sweeter. Love that Chai! You, too?
go to the organic store or an indian store and buy some chai tea leaves.put some in a teapot and boil for a few minutes. this is a great tea and the longer you leave the leaves in, the darker the tea gets.it is my favorite. i boil water because i do not have a teapot and then add the leaves in a teaball and let them steep for about 5 minutes.easy and great tasting tea. my absolute favorite.my iraqi friend shared this tea with me and i am addicted to it.ha.not really but i love it.muslim stores should carry it also and it will be cheaper than an organic store.
I have made it from scratch for years using exactly this recipe:
Boil 5 minutes, then steep 10 minutes:
1 Tbsp fennel or anise seed
6 green cardamom pods
12 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1/4" ginger root, sliced thin
1/4 tsp black pepper corns
2 bay leaves
7 Cups water
Add, bring to a boil, and simmer 5 minutes:
2 Tbsp Darjeeling tea
Add:
6 Tbsp honey or brown sugar
1 Cup milk
The only ingredient that's a little hard to find are the green cardamom pods--you might need to find a Middle Eastern market or Asian market, but the really big upscale supermarkets should have them, too.
Have fun--you'll never like any other chai after you have this one.
Ask an Indian!
First, all of these ingredient should be fresh (or as fresh as possible). You can get all these spices in Indian-american grocerry stores.
1. Brooke Bond Red label or Taj Mahal Black tea
[DO NOT USE GREEN OR LEAF TEA, IT WILL RUIN THE TASTE].
2. Cloves, cinamon stick (good quality), fresh ginger (powder or prepackaged cannot be substituted), whole black pepper, cardomon pods.
3. Optional items: White khas-khas (Indian name of a spice, which is round dried seeds); and soanph (green dried, not roasted)
4. Half-and-Half milk. No other milk can be substituted (if you really want the taste of real chai)
PREPARATION METHOD FOR 1-CUP CHAI:
In a clean deep dish container, put 3/4 cup water, 1/2 cup milk (Half-and-Half), 1 full teaspoon black tea and spices as follows.
1 pod cardomon
2 pea size fresh ginger (mulched)
1-2 big size whole black pepper
1/8 to 1/6 cinnemon stick
On a hard piece of paper, crush all of them together. Immediately put this mix in dish with water and milk. Keep them on heater plate or gas range for about 15 minutes, keep stirring continuously. Add sugar to your taste. Drain on strainer and serve in a cup.
The idea is to burn water from the tea while mixing the spices into the leftover tea. You may have to experiment with the quantity of water and milk to the final quantity of tea. In my experience, 2:1 ratio works better, i.e. I use 2 cups of (milk + water) for making one cup of chai. 1 cup of water is burned in the process. This provides smooth taste of chai.
Please note: Chai making can be fun, but you cannot cut time. I have always made the best chais and never thought of time. Belive me it is time well spent.
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Why not try and make chai from scratch? You can vary the following according to taste.
1/3 water
2/3 milk
1 teaspoon of tea for each cup measure (plus a bit extra) freshly chopped ginger
cardamom pods
a little piece clove (optional)
enough sugar to make it sweet
Throw it all into a suacepan cold and bring slowly to a boil. When boiling turn up the heat and swirl it around until it reaches the desired strength and the spices provide a kick. Strain it into small glasses.
FYI - chai tea is rendundant .. chai means tea.