Masala Chai | Masala Tea | Beverage Recipes
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Recipe type: Beverage/Drink
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 6 Cups
 
Ever-favourite piping hot beverage, masala chai or masala tea
Ingredients
  • 1½ Tbsp tea leaves/powder
  • 3 Tsp sugar
  • 1¼ Cups water
  • 1½ Cups full cream milk/whole milk
  • ½ Tsp grated ginger or ¼ Tsp dry ginger powder
  • 2-3 elaichi/green cardamom
  • 5-6 whole black peppercorn
  • ¼ Tsp cinnamon powder
  • 2 Tsp fresh cream or malai (optional)
Method
  1. Pour milk in a vessel or saucepan
  2. Bring it to heat on low flame
  3. Pour water in another pan and bring it to a slow boil
  4. Next gather all ingredients required for the masala chai, tea leaves, cinnamon powder, black peppercorn, cardamom, ginger (clockwise)
  5. Using a mortar-pestle, roughly pound the elaichi/green cardamom and black pepper
  6. Grate ginger and keep aside
  7. When the milk starts to scald, this is the window to add some fragrant masalas
  8. Give the milk a quick stir, this will mix the skin/malai back into the milk
  9. Add pounded elaichi and pepper powder
  10. Next sprinkle cinnamon powder and scrape in the grated ginger
  11. Keep stirring the milk on low flame
  12. Meanwhile the water has come to a boil, add the tea leaves
  13. Mix well, allow to steep
  14. When the tea comes to a low boil and starts coming to the top, keep an eye on it
  15. After about a minute or so the tea leaves are infused with boiling water
  16. Now pour the tea decoction into the boiling milk and mix well
  17. Let it keep heating for another 2 minutes, keep stirring
  18. Add sugar as per your taste and mix well
  19. Lastly for extra smoothness and richness, add some fresh cream or malai
  20. Let the tea sit for 1 more minute and let it settle into the flavour
  21. Sieve the mixture into cups or kulhads or glasses or lota
  22. Serve hot!
Notes
Always ensure to use whole milk or full cream milk, it defines the chai/tea

Resting the tea is very important for the flavours to infuse and settle in

Add sugar as per your taste, but don't make it very sweet or don't add very less

This masala chai recipe can be increased in proportions, doubled, tripled easily
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/masala-chai/