Chai Tea Recipe – Indian Tea
Servings Prep Time
2servings 2mins
Cook Time
8mins
Servings Prep Time
2servings 2mins
Cook Time
8mins
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Crush the cardamom pods using a mortar and pestle
  2. In a steel pot, pour 1 cup water, 1 cup whole milk, don’t use skim or low fat milk for this recipe. Add the half inch piece of ginger cut up and the ground cardamom. Bring this up to a boil. Make sure to watch the pot so it doesn’t boil over. Stir once in a while.
  3. You can see the bubbles in the pot and it’s time to add the tea leaves. Add 1.5 tbsps of tea. This will make a full strength tea. If you like milder tea, add 1 tbsp of tea. Once it comes up to a boil, turn the heat down to simmer for 3 minutes.
  4. After three minutes, I’ll add 3 teaspoons of sugar because I like my tea sweet. If you want less sugar, add 2 teaspoons now and you can always add more to your cup if you wish. Stir until sugar is melted and turn the heat off. At this point you can strain the tea into your cup.
  5. I like to have a little froth in my tea, so I strain the tea into a cup with a spout. You get about 12 ounces of tea from the 16 ounces of liquid we started with. Now you can “pull” the tea to cool it down and get froth on top.
  6. Make the perfect snack with Chai – Banana Fritters/Pazham Pori
Recipe Notes

It’s the perfect blend of ginger and cardamom. The tea is rich, creamy and very soothing. After you try this Chai, it’ll be really hard to go back to a cup of water and a tea bag.