Yemeni Chai (Chai Adani)

Submitted by lemoncurd

"Chai Adani is one of my favorite teas. It's served every where all year round, you can get it at humble road side tea stands to fancy coffee shops. The ginger and cloves are the most dominant flavours in this lovely tea. If you don't have loose tea you may use a tea bag. Tea is drank very sweet here, so add sugar to taste."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• 1 rolled cinnamon stick, broken
• 3 green cardamom pods (slightly peeled)
• 5 cloves
• 1.23 ml ground ginger
• 177.44 ml milk
• 177.44 ml water
• 4.92 ml loose tea
• sugar

directions

1. Add all the spices, milk and water to medium saucepan, cover with a lid. Place on stove on medium heat.
2. when milk mixture is almost at a boil add sugar and tea (don't forget to stir often other wise milk will scortch).
3. Allow chai to come to a boil. for a minute.
4. strain into a mug and enjoy.
5. I normally don't strain it, just fish out the spices and pour into my mug.

Reviews

[UmmBinat]

This is a nice not very spicy chai. I used additional green slightly crushed cardamom pods because I think my cardamom is old and has lost some of its flavour. I used rice milk in replacement of he milk as we are dairy free and it worked fine but I added it at the end from a previous experience of it separating. I used a Lipton Yellow Label tea bag and approximately 1 1/2 tbs dark brown sugar which was too much for my liking. I will definitely make this again as it was good and I want to take the cloves for medical purposes.

 

[Nazely H.]

Very spicy with so many cloves!

 

[breakofdawn_74]

After trying this tea abt 6 years ago I have been hooked on it ever since. Now I call it my comfort tea. My go to tea when I'm having a bad day or sick or just when I want to relax

 

[Elmotoo]

Deliciously spicy but I didn't like the consistency. I thought it was thin so I added some half & half. I made a double batch & the 2nd cup was even better after the spices had steeped a little longer. I used honey to sweeten it. YUM! Made for A Culinary Tour of Yemen in the NA/ME Forum 2/14.

 

[Nabiha]

Mmmm...a very nice comforting drink..I used 1/2 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of water, 1 lipton yellow label teabag and 2 teaspoons sugar. I might use 2 teabgas next time since I generally prefer my tea a bit strong..thanks for this lovely beverage lemoncurd.