Spiced Chai
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A delicious tea drink, nice served either hot or cold!
- Ready In:
- 30mins
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- Units:
10
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ingredients
- 4 cups water
- 4 cups milk
- 4 green cardamom pods
- 12 black peppercorns
- 12 whole cloves
- 4 inches cinnamon sticks, broke into pieces
- 1 star anise
- 1 whole nutmeg
- 3 slices fresh gingerroot
- 4 black tea bags
- 6 tablespoons honey (or to taste)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
directions
- Mix together water and milk in large saucepan; bring to a boil.
- Add cardamom pods, peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon stick, anise, nutmeg, ginger root, and tea.
- Remove from heat and steep for 15-20 minutes, according to how strong you like your tea.
- Carefully strain tea through strainer into another pot to remove spices.
- Stir in honey, mixing well to dissolve; mix in vanilla extract.
- Pour into cups and serve warm, or chill and serve cold.
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Taking others reviews into consideration and knowing the low flavour of my cardamom pods I used more than called for. Also from previous experience with boiling rice milk (we are dairy free) and it causing separation I initially just boiled the water with the spices and then removed it from the heat and covered it for 15 minutes and think with regular milk this would help the flavour become stronger as another reviewer suggested. I did not use nutmeg because of its intoxicant properties but added a little ground allspice. I used more chunks of crystallized organic baby ginger one time and fresh gingerroot than called for another time. I also exchanged the honey for brown sugar as I think it goes better with the spices as another reviewer also mentioned. I used alcohol free vanilla the first time and I brought the water to a boil a second time and then added the tea bags as I don't suspect I like a 15 minute tea flavour, I imagine it would be too strong for us. Based on all these changes, I agree with the other review that didnt like the vanilla in this. I thought I would and that is actually why I chose to make this recipe but I just found it did not complement the spices. Another time I tried this without the vanilla and the previous changes reported but I still like Recipe #190932 much better.Reply
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Disappointing. The flavor was barely there. If I made this again, I'd cut the liquid in half and keep the spice amounts, possibly adding more cardamom. I'd also boil the spices in water first, then steep the tea in the hot spice water, then add the milk.Reply
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Excellent recipe! I personally prefer brown sugar to honey as it seems to better complement the spices. Also, I added ground coriander and a bit of allspice to mine.Reply
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This was pretty good. I did halve the recipe but kept all the spice measurements the same and I am glad that I did as I think it may have been too "subtle" for my tastes otherwise. I like using honey rather than sugar but I wasn't crazy about the vanilla - it just didn't seem to belong with all the other spices. Thanks for posting.Reply -
Very good Chai! I liked it much better than the cloyingly sweet chais I've had at starbucks and Panera. The spices were very subtle, next tiem I will try crushing the caradmon and ginger. I used one tbl. black tea and one tbl. jasmine tea for teh tea bags. The flowery taste of the jasmine tea made the Chai more of a summery drink, I thought. I cant wait to have it cold tomorrow! Oh yes, and if you give the Chai a quick whirl in teh blender, you will get a nice frothy texture on top. yum!Reply
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