Various Chai Tea Recipes

Chai Tea is both nutritious and delicious, and is suprizingly simple to make at home.  Chai Tea benefits are excellent. The gingerroot aids in digestion, with the cinnamon having an all-around ‘tonic’ effect, the cayenne pepper and cloves helps the metabolism, and the milk is soothing to both body and soul! Combined with a good quality black tea and honey (antibiotic properties), it is especially comforting and relaxing as a night beverage. Prepare with confidence, and enjoy !

Chai Tea Latte

Chai Tea Latte

* 2 individual tea bags
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
* 1 cup water
* 1 cup milk
* 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
* 2 tablespoons refrigerated french vanilla non-dairy coffee creamer
* whipped topping (optional)
* ground nutmeg (optional)

1. Place the tea bags, cinnamon, ginger and allspice in the coffee filter of a drip coffeemaker.
2. Add water; brew according to manufacturer’s directions.
3. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the milk, brown sugar and creamer.
4. Cook and stir over medium heat until heated through and sugar is dissolved.
5. Pour milk mixture into mugs; stir in tea.
6. Dollop with whipped topping and sprinkle with nutmeg if desired.

Mystic Chai Tea Mix Recipe
(Instant Chai Tea Mix)

1 cup nonfat dry milk powder
1 cup powdered non-dairy creamer
1 cup French vanilla flavored
powdered non-dairy creamer
2 1/2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups unsweetened instant tea
2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cardamom

How to make :
1 In a large bowl, combine milk powder, non-dairy creamer, vanilla flavored creamer, sugar and instant tea.
Stir in ginger, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. In a blender or food processor, blend 1 cup at a time, until mixture is the consistency of fine powder.

To serve: Stir 2 heaping tablespoons Chai tea mixture into a mug of hot water.
You can spice it up even further by adding 1 teaspoon nutmeg and allspice, and 1/4 teaspoon white pepper.

Starbucks Tazo Chai Tea

2.5 cups water
6-8 green cardamompods
2 w hole black peppercorns
1-2 slices fresh ginger, peeled and diced
2 sticks cinnamon
1-2 cloves
2/3 cup (175 ml) milk
4 tsp honey
2-3 tsp loose black tea
Put the water in a saucepan, add the spices, and bring to a boil.
Turn down the heat and let simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Add milk
and sugar and bring to a boil (or heavy simmer). Add tea, turn
off the heat, and let infuse for tw o to three minutes. Strain into
tw o cups and serve hot.

Chai Tea Latte Recipe

Ingredients :

* 1 cup milk
* 1 cup water
* 1 large strip of orange peel
* 3 whole cloves
* 1 (3 inch) cinnamon stick
* 3 whole black peppercorns
* 1 pinch ground nutmeg
* 4 teaspoons white sugar
* 2 teaspoons black tea leaves

How to do it

Combine the milk and water in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
Once this mixture has warmed, place the orange peel, cloves, cinnamon stick, peppercorns, nutmeg, sugar and tea leaves into the pan.
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until the color deepens to your liking. Strain out spices, and pour into cups.

Spiced Chai Tea

INGREDIENTS:

Spiced Chai Tea

2 1/2 cups water
1 teaspoon cardamon
3 whole black peppercorns
2 small slices fresh ginger, peeled
1 stick cinnamon
2 cloves
2/3 cup milk
Notes :  This recipe makes delicious chai tea.   You can play around with the spices- try adding dried sliced ginger, pumpkin pie spice, or use ground instead of stick cinnamon.
Carnation french vanilla creamer tastes great in it too!

Spicy Chai Tea

2” piece of fresh gingerroot
2 ½ ” length of cinnamon stick
2 cups of water
pinch of fresh grated black or cayenne pepper
¼ tsp ground cardamon
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1 T loose-leaf black tea (the better the quality, the better the resulting Chai Tea)
2 cups of milk
honey to taste

How to make Spicy Chai Tea :

1. Finely grate the ginger knob into a saucepan. (freezing tip in Miscellaneous Category of betweenclosefriends.com)
2. Break the cinnamon stick into smaller pieces, and also add it to the saucepan.
3. Next, add the water to the saucepan, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Add the remaining spices, bringing this mixture back to a boil. Once it starts to boil, remove the saucepan from the heat and add the tealeaves.
5. Stir, cover, and let steep for approximately 4 to 5 minutes.
6. Add the milk.
7. Return the saucepan to the stove, and heat through without boiling.
8. When hot, strain your chai tea into cups, and serve with honey, if desired.

Tips For Delicious Chai Tea

* Tea leaves can release too much bitterness if exposed to hot
water for too long. The general rule of thumb when making an “infusion”
such as this is that the longer the ingredients remain in the liquid,
the stronger their flavor will be. Experiment with a variety of leaves
and time durations to see what works best for you.

* Feel free to experiment with other techniques such as using
green or white tea instead of black tea leaves. Other variations could
use soy milk instead of skim milk. Or you could use a different
sweetener than honey, such as rice syrup or maple syrup.

* If you don’t have cheesecloth or find it messy to deal with,
you can purchase empty paper tea bags from a tea shop. Fill it with
your spices (and another with tea leaves if you wish), close it with an
inexpensive bag clip, then discard it when done. You can also get cloth
bags made of unbleached muslin that are reusable. They close with a
drawstring.
* There are four kinds of cinnamon: China Cassia, Vietnamese
Cassia, Korintje Cassia and Ceylon Cinnamon. Ceylon is twice as
expensive and well worth it. Try all four or a combination.
*Cardamom powder is very expensive.
If you have a coffee bean grinder, buy the w hole seeds (much cheaper) and grind them to a powder yourself)

* The proper name for the drink known as “chai” or “chai tea”
is “masala chai.” The word “chai” is Urdu, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and
Russian for “tea”, while “masala” is Hindi for “spice”. If you say you
are making “chai” that would mean that you are making plain tea. Thus
both words are necessary.

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