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Indian Recipes for Hot Beverages
Hospitality in India is expressed with offering tea or coffee with
sweets and savory snacks. Families in India are also partial to many hot milk drinks
flavored with ginger, cardamom, nutmeg, fennel, saffron and fortified with nuts and seeds
to create a powerful protein drink. |
Indian Chai Recipe, Masala Chai
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Ingredients: 4 Serving
2 cups water
3 whole cloves
1 stick cinnamon
3 to 4 cardamom pods (cracked open)
1/4 cup loose black tea (or 4 tea bags)
2 cups milk
4 tablespoons of sugar (or a little less)
Method:
Bring water, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom to a boil; Add tea and milk and bring to a
boil. When hot, strain and add sugar. Serve hot. |
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Mysore Coffee
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Indian
MysoreCoffee has a reputation of being one of the best by many coffee connoisseurs.
It is moderately strong and very aromatic. For a South Indian it is a must after a paper
thin or regular dosa and idli breakfast (cry rice and lentil pancake crepe) with their
steaming cups of milky, sweet Mysore coffee. Indian Mysore is an Arabica bean that's
been grown, picked, and selected by hand in the Indian peninsula of Karataka. The result
is a medium-bodied coffee with strong marks of mint and fresh aromatic herbs. The Mysore
district is the location of the gold fields in India, hence the name "Nuggets".
Brew as per the directions on the
package of coffee |
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Cardamom Milk Recipe- Elaichi Doodh Recipe
This drink is popular in the plains of North India and in Bengal. Can also
double up as a light meal before bed. Makes a healthy warming hot milk or a sweet
after dinner drink or a filling milk drink before bed (especially when one has had an
early supper). A warm nut milkshake |
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Ingredients:
3 tbsp. white poppy seeds dry roasted in a pan
15 blanched almonds
1 cup water
3 cups whole milk
1 tablespoon Poppy Seeds
1/2 tsp. cardamom seeds
sugar to taste
Method
1. Dry roast poppy seeds in a heavy frying pan over low heat. stiring the pan
often so as not to burn it, for about 5 minutes. Combine the poppy seeds, almonds and
water in a blender or food processor fitted with the metal blade and process for 2-3
minutes or until the nuts are reduced to a fine puree. Add 2 cups milk and further blend
on low speed for about 15 seconds.
2. Pour the mixture through a strainer over a pan. Press out as much liquid as
possible, then add the remaining milk and the cardomom seeds. Stirring constantly, bring
to a boil over moderately high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 2 minutes. Add
the sweetner.
3. Indians will pour the milk back and forth from one pan to another to make the
milk frothy much like a low tech cappuccino machine. The frothy milk is then served. |
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| Almond Honey Milk Recipe -
Madhur Badam Doodh Recipe- In the cold winter months of North India many
families wake up to an almond au lait. The milk is warming, protein rich and
all natural and enjoyed by the whole family - grandparents, parents and children |
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Ingredients:
1/2 cup blanched almonds
2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon of cardamom powder or 1/2 tsp. vanilla.
honey or sugar to taste
Method:
1. Add almonds and water in a blender or food processor fitted with the metal blade
and process for 2-3 minutes or until the nuts are reduced to a fine puree. Add 2 cups of
milk and further blend on low speed for about 15 seconds.
Heat the milk blend to a boil.
2. Pour the mixture through a strainer over a pan. Press out as much liquid
as possible, then add the cardamom seeds. Stirring constantly, bring to a near boil over
moderately high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 2 minutes. Add the sweetener.
3. Indians will pour the milk back and forth from one pan to another to make the
milk frothy much like a low tech cappuccino machine. The frothy milk is then served. |
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