Tea House Chai Concentrate
Allen Mayer says at his tea house in Ottawa, Canada, they now serve their own chais. Here's how they do it. For a mocha chai, use chocolate milk instead of white. For herbal chai, replace the Darjeeling with 1 tsp. each of chamomile, fennel seed and peppermint. This can be halved or doubled!
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INGREDIENTS
Nutrition- 2teaspoons black peppercorns
- 2teaspoons fresh gingerroot
- 10inches cinnamon sticks
- 3teaspoons whole cloves
- 8cups water
- 8
- 1teaspoon vanilla
- 3teaspoons honey
- hot milk
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Mocha chai
Herbal Chai
- 1teaspoon dried chamomile
- 1
- 1teaspoon dried peppermint
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DIRECTIONS
- Crush together the black pepper, ginger root, cardamom, cinnamon stick, and cloves in a coffee grinder or food processor(just pulse, do not grind to a powder).
- Add to 8 cups of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add 8 teaspoons of tea. Allen uses Darjeeling OP. Steep for 8-10 minutes. Stain out the spices and tea. Add 1 teaspoons of vanilla and 3 teaspoons of honey, or sweeten to taste. Enjoy!
- This can be refrigerated for weeks.
- Heat up as needed and add an equal amount of hot(Allen steams his) milk. Top with ground cinnamon.
- Note:
- For a mocha chai, use chocolate milk instead of white.
- For herbal chai, replace the Darjeeling with 1 teaspoons each of chamomile, fennel seed and peppermint.
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