Spiced Milk Tea Masala Chai Recipes

Steps:

• Grind together cardamom, cinnamon stick, peppercorns, and fennel seeds with mortar and pestle or coffee/spice grinder.
• Bring milk just to a simmer in a 2-quart heavy saucepan. Stir or whisk in brown sugar, ground spice mixture, ginger, and 1/8 teaspoon salt, or to taste. Reduce heat to low and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes to infuse flavors.
• Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan, add tea, and boil 1 minute.
• Pour tea through a fine-mesh sieve into hot milk mixture (discard tea leaves) and cook over low heat 1 minute. Stir before serving.

Steps:

• put the water on the stove and add spices, bring to boil.
• cover and let simmer for few minutes.
• add sugar or sucanat (whole ground sugar cane--like jaggery) and milk, stir.
• bring back to just barely boiling (watch pot, milk will bubble over).
• add tea leaves, cover pot, remove from heat.
• steep for 5 minutes.
• pour through filter to remove spices and tea leaves.

Steps:

• Mix together water and milk in large saucepan; bring to a boil.
• Add cardamom pods, peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon stick, anise, nutmeg, ginger root, and tea.
• Remove from heat and steep for 15-20 minutes, according to how strong you like your tea.
• Carefully strain tea through strainer into another pot to remove spices.
• Stir in honey, mixing well to dissolve; mix in vanilla extract.
• Pour into cups and serve warm, or chill and serve cold.

Steps:

• Put all the masala mixture ingredients in a spice mill or blender and grind well. You will only use a pinch of this mixture, the remaining can be stored in an airtight jar.
• 2. Pour the milk and 2 cups of water in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• 3. Add in the sugar, tea leaves and masala. Stir until the mixture turns dark (8 minutes).
• 4. Remove from heat, strain into cups and serve hot.

Steps:

• Put water in pot.
• Grate ginger.
• Pound cardamom in a mortar.
• Add all the ingredients to the water except milk and sugar. Bring to a full boil.
• Add the milk and bring to a near boil.
• Add sugar.
• Strain and drink.
• All the amounts are approximate. Adjust to taste.

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a pan.
• Bring to a gentle boil, then simmer 2-3 minutes (for less strong tea, simmer only 2 minutes).
• Let it set for 2 minutes, then simmer again until hot (for less strong tea, let set for one minute, no need to simmer again, it should still be hot).
• Strain and pour into a mug or tea glasses. Sprinkle cinnamon on top.