Name: Masala Chai
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 6 black tea bags (inexpensive tea works best. I like Lipton's Yellow label); 2 -3 fennel seeds; 1/3 teaspoon cinnamon; 4 cloves; 1 inch gingerroot; 4 cardamom seeds; 2 cups 2% low-fat milk; water (4 mugs); 8 teaspoons sugar

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Authentic spicy Indian tea. Delicious on weekend mornings. You can use powdered spices, but the fresh ones taste so much better. And don't use fancy tea. Cheap tea tastes better.

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ingredients

6 black tea bags (inexpensive tea works best. I like Lipton's Yellow label)
2 -3 fennel seeds
¹⁄₃ teaspoon cinnamon
4 cloves
1 inch gingerroot
4 cardamom seeds
2 cups 2% low-fat milk
water (4 mugs)
8 teaspoons sugar

directions

Put water in pot.
Grate ginger.
Pound cardamom in a mortar.
Add all the ingredients to the water except milk and sugar. Bring to a full boil.
Add the milk and bring to a near boil.
Add sugar.
Strain and drink.
All the amounts are approximate. Adjust to taste.

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"Authentic spicy Indian tea. Delicious on weekend mornings. You can use powdered spices, but the fresh ones taste so much better. And don't use fancy tea. Cheap tea tastes better."

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review by alvinakatz

8/20/2012

Nice mild but complex spicing on this. I used bulk tea, which I think works better than tea bags. I also allowed the tea to come to a boil slowly, and that might have made the spices stand out more.

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8/18/2012

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review by Sharon123

5/10/2012

I used decaf tea, and let them steep quite awhile. I used soy milk too. Thanks for a lovely drink. :) Made for the vegetarian swap-May 2012.

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review by UmmBinat

5/4/2012

At first I thought the spices were very hard to detect in this chai but I left in the spices to steep longer after removing the tea bags (I used Traditional Medicinals red raspberry leaf tea bags to be healthier) and it made a nice chai which I also made dairy free but adding extra home-made almond milk & date syrup to sweeten (hate sugar). I increased the amount of spices using about 1/8 tsp fennel seeds, a small stick of cinnamon, 4 whole cardamom pods, grinding the seeds plus 2 more bruised ones (I love cardamom), plus the rest of the ingredients. Made for Veggie Swap #46 ~ May 2012 ~

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review by Elmotoo

5/4/2012

Wonderful tea, nicely balanced. I used ceylon tea leaves vs. tea bags which I highly recommend. I didn't have any fresh ginger so I used some crystallized ginger & cut way back on the sugar. Made for our VIP in the Veggie Swap 5/12.

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