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MASALA CHAI TEA
Spiced sweetened milk tea. Every Indian family has their own recipe to make chai, but the most important base spice is cardamon. The sweet fragrance of cardamon mixed with other spices such as fennel, cloves and cinnamon gives the tea a heady aroma. The tea is simmered slowly to extract its full strength. Goes really well with curries and hot foods. The tea is addictive! You won't stop at just one cup. Ingredients
- Some cheesecloth and kitchen twine
- 15 cardamon pods
- 1 star anise
- 5 pieces cloves
- 2 tablespoons fennel seed
- 2 sticks cinnamon
- 7 1/2 cups water
- 10 teabags Orange Pekoe tea (Lipton, PGs, Tetleys or any other British brand teas)
- 3 cups evaporated milk
- 8 tablespoons sugar
Directions
- Place spices (except for cinnamon sticks) in a cheesecloth or a teaball and bundle tightly together with kitchen twine.
- In a large pot, add water, teabag, spice bag and cinnamon sticks and bring to a gentle boil. When it boils simmer under a slow fire for about 20 minutes.
- Remove spice bag, teabags and cinnamon sticks.
- Mix in milk and sugar. Bring back to a boil.
- Sieve into a teapot before serving
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love this masala chai tea recipe, you're so right - it's all about the cardamom pods!
Hello there Linda,
This looks wonderful! I love Chai Tea and just bought Tetley's Chai Tea in bags and World Market. With sweetner it is really good and is just the tea and spices with no sugar.
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