make chai tea from scratch

How I did it: Serves 2-3.

1. In a pot add 4 spoons of loose tea (or three tea bags), add one cup of water, add a few black pepper corns and a few cloves and bring to a boil
2. Reduce heat then add chopped ginger and cardomon corns or pods
3. Add one and 1/2 cups of milk then increase heat
4. Add two spoons of sugar and reduce heat once the liquid starts rising
5. You are now done, turn off hot plate and serve into cups using deep soup spoons

Lessons & tips:

• Don't use too much ginger or cloves, these ingredients are very strong flavoured. half a teaspoon of each will do.
• Don't use too much water.
• It is better to go stronger with the tea than milder.
• Don't use ground ginger as it will be hard to filter out of your drinking cup.
• Pepper corn and cloves are optional. Ginger and cardomon are more important

Resources: Youtube videos help. Watch as many as you can and stick with the ones that use less ingredients (more authentic). I prefer the methods that add the ingredients in stages (not all at once)

Aug 23, 10:55PM PDT | 1 comment | 2 cheers