Step 1
Get help from a neighbor for this. Bonus points if your neighbor is Indian.
Step 2
Boil water with coarse tea grains (made from dried tea leaves), a couple of cardamom pods, and masala. Masal is Hindi for "spice". You can make chicken masala of course, but I suspect the combination of spices is completely different. I think that this chai masala is a mix of ginger, anise, orange peel, cloves and peppercorn.
Step 3
Add sugar. I think that the myth is that Chai is incredibly sweet, but it doesn't have to be. I like it on the less-sweet side.
Step 4
Pour in a generous amount of milk so that the tea's color is light chocolate brown.
Step 5
Boil the tea longer enough so that the milk boils and rises up three times.
Step 6
Pour tea through a strainer into glass cups.
Step 7
Enjoy!
4 comments:
No chocolate???
Ammo
Thanks for the instructions and pictures. Do you have any specific measurements of spices and tea and water to go with the recipe? The pictures are a great help. I blogged about your post as well here, http://tea-sippers.info/teas/93/tea-notes-today.html if you want to include that.
Thanks Sandrak for your comment - unfortunately I don't have measurements - it's really done ad hoc. I think it probably takes 3 or 4 times of making it to find the proportion that works for you. Thanks for the link!
Nice! We make this in Sydney too. Big tea drinkers, in this house.
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