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Indian Chai Recipes

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Chai In Indiarefers to a style of preparing it. Chai tea is usually served with a milk or cream, and is heavily spiced. Common spices in chai are cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, pepper, and allspice.

Chai has come to North America from India, and has gained much popularity at coffeehouses and tea shops everywhere. It's not hard to make at home, and many of the spices are ones you likely have in your pantry. Here are a few great chai recipes to try:

Masala Chai Recipe -

- Serves: 4
Ingredients:
4 whole cloves
2 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
3 cups water
1/4 inch fresh ginger
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cups milk
2 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons strong tea
Method:
Add spices, water, ginger and pepper and bring to a boil. Simmer on low for 5 minutes. Add the milk and sugar to the pan and bring to a boil again. Add tea and bring to a boil again. Strain it into a warmed teapot or directly into teacups and serve with Indian savory snacks or cilantro chutney sandwiches.

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Spiced Chai Recipe
Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups water
1 stick cinnamon
4 cardamom pods
4 cloves
1 cup milk
3 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons strong tea
Method:
Add spices, water and bring to a boil. Simmer on low for 5 minutes. Add the milk and sugar to the pan and bring to a boil again. Add tea and bring to a boil again. Strain it into a warmed teapot or directly into teacups and serve with Indian savory snacks or cilantro chutney sandwiches.
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Green Cardamom Chai

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Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups water
2 cardamom pod, whole, split
1/4 inch fresh ginger
1 1/2 cup milk
4 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoon strong black tea
Method:
Add cardamom, ginger, water and bring to a boil. Simmer on low for 5 minutes. Add the milk and sugar to the pan and bring to a boil again. Add tea and bring to a boil again. Strain it into a warmed teapot or directly into teacups and serve with samosa or
cilantro chutney sandwiches.

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Masala Chai Recipe -2

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Ingredients:
3 tsp loose tea, usually black
1 piece of dry ginger
3 cardamom pods, crushed
3 whole cloves
1 piece of cinnamon stick
Milk and sugar to taste
Method:
Boil 3 cups of water, then add tea and spices. Bring to boil. Let sit for 1 minute. Strain out the spices and serve, with milk and/or sugar.
Common Chai Recipe
  • 4 cups water
  • 1-2 whole cloves
  • 1 stick cinnamon
  • 1-2 cardamom pods (cracked open)

Bring these to a boil; let stand as long as possible.
Then add: 4 tsp. loose Assam Summer Tips for a strong robust flavor. and let steep.
Then add: 2 cups milk to the tea-spice mixture and heat but do not boil. When hot, strain and add: 4 tablespoons of sugar (or a little less) Stir and keep hot.

Variations:

  • The beauty of making chai is you can vary the ingredients according to your taste. Some Chai lovers enjoy the taste of ginger in their chai. Add ginger flavor either by adding fresh ginger pieces or alternatively use our ginger assam tea, an exceptional blend of Assam leaf tea and natural ginger root.
  • Variety is the spice of life. Try incorporating some of these spices in your chai, according to your taste preferences: anise seed, black peppercorns, bay leaves, and nut meg.
  • You may also want to substitute different types of black tea. For subtler chai flavor use a high quality darjeeling or premium nilgiri tea.
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Tea is a popular social event in India.  Indian Tea Time menu which is high tea but in today's world it can be made into a dinner and an excellent menu for entertaining
  
Chutney/Cucumber Sandwiches
Thin slices of  tomato and cucumber with a spread of cilantro-mint-ginger chutney on sliced bread.
 
Bhel Puri
 
Mix 2 boiled and mashed Potatoes , 1 finely chopped cucumber, 2  finely cut tomatoes and 1 minced onion with a pack of Bhel Mix (crispy rice,  sev or chickpea noodles). Pour 3 to 4 table spoons of raisin chutney  and 1 to 2 tablespoons of mint chutney to the above mixture. Mix well. Garnish with chopped cilantro and serve. - a meal in itself.
 
Masala Chai
Tea infused with spices, fresh ginger and served with milk and sugar.

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Crispy spicy snack made of rice, chickpea dough and nuts.

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