Chai

Name: Chai
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: South Asia — Muslim traditions
Ingredients: 0.5 saucepan water; 18 black peppercorns; 18 cardamom pods; 1 medium cinnamon stick; 8 slice fresh ginger; 1.5 cup milk; 2 tbsp black tea; 2.5 tbsp unbleached cane sugar

Black tea come together in this South Asian drink, perfumed with black peppercorns and cardamom and simmered on the stove.

20 min · Serves 8 · Easy

Ingredients

Method

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Time: Prep 10 min · Cook 10 min · 20 min total
Difficulty: easy

1
Start to heat the water to boiling. In the meantime, cut each peppercorn in half with a knife and crack open each cardamom pod by biting it or smashing it.
2
Put all spices and ginger in the pan. Boil about 5 minutes or until the water is light brown colored from the spices.
5 min
3
Add 1/2 cup of the milk and the tea. Then stir in the sugar making sure it melts. Add the rest of the milk and heat to almost boiling for a couple more minutes.
4
Depending on your taste, you can add more or less milk or sugar to the recipe. Strain the mixture into glasses and taste authentic chai from the Himalayas!