![]() ![]() Use 1/2 teaspoon to 1 teaspoon per cup of black or green tea. Keep the jar in a cool cupboard away from heat. Mix the powdered spices together in a jar with a tight lid. Recipe Card powered by Chai Tea Recipe Yield: 13 1-teaspoon servings Ingredients: You can even froth the milk and make chai tea lattes at home. Homemade masala chai is fresher, more flavorful, and therapeutic than Starbucks. You won’t be satisfied with Starbucks once you’ve made your own from scratch at home. Here’s the simplest version of my chai tea recipe. You can use black tea bags from the store or loose leaf tea from a tea emporium like Vahdam teas. English breakfast tea and even Earl Grey teas are also lovely mixed with these warming spices. ![]() What kind of tea should you use?īlack teas like darjeeling and assam tea are exquisite. Try it with stevia, sugar, maple syrup, or honey. Use any kind of sweetener with your masala chai. It keeps the spices fresher and it’s so easy to mix up a fresh batch as you need it. While you could use whole spices and mix them with the tea of your choice, I like to keep the powdered spice mix separate from the tea. The spice mix varies depending on where you sample your chai from, but traditionally it may contain any of the following spices: Masala is the mixed spices that are added to the tea. I like Indian tea from Vadam teas where they have single estate darjeeling, Assam and Himalayan green teas that taste lovely with chai spices.Ĭhai is tea. Then add the spice blend to the tea you like best. You can make your own chai spice mix by choosing the spices you like best. But everyone agrees, it shouldn’t taste like curry. There is no official Masala Chai tea recipe. If you speak to someone with Indian heritage you may find that their favorite Chai (tea) has only black tea leaves, like darjeeling or Assam tea, milk, sweetening, and ginger. Some companies skip the real spices and add flavouring instead of spice, to save money. You’ll find fewer expensive spices like cardamom, with a heavier leaning on the cheaper spices like cinnamon and fennel. Commercial chai tea bags usually have spices mixed based on price. You probably noticed when you buy Chai Tea in tea bags different brands have different spices predominating. When I order a chai latte at a cafe I order it with almond milk and have it dairy-free. I make it with black tea, green tea, and sometimes I just enjoy the warming, digestive spice blend with tulsi basil or stinging nettles. ![]() I love the warm, full bodied, taste of spicy, fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks, fennel seeds, black peppercorn, and green cardamom pods. It’s worth making your own Masala Chai from scratch, both for flavor and for its therapeutic benefit. Warming, digestive, soothing, and comforting, homemade masala chai is nothing like the coffee shop drink. ![]()
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