Ingredients
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4 Cups Water
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15 whole Cloves
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3 sticks Cinnamon
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8 (1/4 in. thick) slices unpeeled Fresh Ginger
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15 split Cardamom Seed
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15 whole Black Pepper
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10 black Tea Bags
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1/3 Cup Brown Sugar
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2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Directions
This chai concentrate is a strongly flavoured mixture you can have on hand whenever you want to have a cold or hot chai tea beverage. It comprises a blend of warm whole spices, black tea, and sugar, that makes for a delicious drink on hot or cold days throughout the year.
How to Use the Chai Concentrate
There are 3 ways that I recommend you use this homemade chai tea concentrate. One is in a hot preparation while the other is a cold preparation. The third includes coffee!
Iced Chai Tea: To make this homemade chai tea, simply blend 2 tablespoons of the concentrate into a glass containing 1 cup of your favourite milk, such as cow’s milk, oat milk, or almond milk, and some ice. Dairy and plant-based milk both work perfectly well. However, if you like a lighter-tasting chai drink or prefer it stronger, you can adjust the amount of concentrate to your taste.
Hot Chai Tea: For the hot version of homemade chai tea, blend 1 to 3 tablespoons of the chai concentrate into 1 cup of hot milk, like almond milk, or a combination of milk and water. While you might find the range of concentrate significant in comparison to the iced chai tea, foods and drinks tend to taste very different hot versus cold.
Dirty Chai: Add 1-2 tablespoons of chai syrup to your iced or hot café latte for a chai flavoured coffee drink (or coffee flavoured chai) also called dirty chai.
Steps
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1 h 15 m
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Prepare Tea1. Get your water boiling in a sauce pan then combine in the cloves and let everything cook for 60 secs. 2. Now combine in the tea, cinnamon, peppercorns, ginger, and cardamom. 3. Let the mix sit for 7 mins then run everything through a strainer in a jug. 4. Combine the vanilla extract and the brown sugar and let the mix sit in the fridge for 60 mins. 5. To serve cold, add 2 tablespoons** of concentrate to a glass with ice and about 1 cup of milk of your choice. 6. To serve hot, heat 1 cup of milk (or half milk-half water) and add 1-3 tablespoons of chai concentrate. 7. Store the chai concentrate refrigerated for up to 2 weeks. |
