Chai

Recipes / Coctails

This aromatic, creamy tea will boost your immunity and warm your insides.

Recipe «Chai» presented in category Recipes / Coctails, to prepare this dish you will need no more 15 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 2cm-piece of fresh ginger, peeled, 1 cinnamon stick, 1 dried bay leaf, 1 tsp cardamom seeds, 1 tsp black peppercorns , 1/2 tsp fennel seeds, 5 whole cloves, 750ml water , 1/4 cup black tea leaves, 125ml milk, Brown sugar or honey to taste.

Ingredients:

  • 2cm-piece of fresh ginger, peeled 
  • 1 cinnamon stick 
  • 1 dried bay leaf 
  • 1 tsp cardamom seeds 
  • 1 tsp black peppercorns 
  • 1/2 tsp fennel seeds 
  • 5 whole cloves 
  • 750ml water 
  • 1/4 cup black tea leaves 
  • 125ml milk 
  • Brown sugar or honey to taste 

Instructions

  1. Place ginger, cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom seeds, peppercorns, fennel seeds, cloves, and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to the boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes to develop the flavours.
  2. Add black tea leaves to the spice mixture and set aside for 5 minutes to infuse. Strain the tea leaf mixture through a fine sieve into a large heatproof jug. Discard the tea leaves and spices. Return the tea to the pan. Stir in milk. Place the mixture over low heat and stir until heated through.
  3. Pour the chai among heatproof serving glasses or teacups and stir in brown sugar or honey to taste. Serve.