Masala Chai is a spiced milk tea. The tea is made by roasting spices like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper and ginger powder and making it a tea masala powder. The spice powder is made by boiling milk, tea powder, tea masala and sugar steeped together to create masala tea. You can make a spiced tea and cinnamon tea with spices.
Masala Chai Recipe
In our house evening must have tea, yes it is compulsary. I don’t drink tea daily, but my mother and sister do that. Actually speaking my mum cannot live without tea. What she drink is normal tea flavoured with some ginger or some cardamom and mostly plain. They were great for her.
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About Masala Chai
Masala Chai is a hot beverage popular indian tea made by boiling milk with indian tea, special tea masala powder and sugar. The beverage is popular across the world. Tea is steeped with spices like green cardamom, cloves, black pepper, cinnamon and ginger.
But if I feel like having a cup of chai , it should be this masala chai. Yes I love it a lot..There is something in that spicy aroma and taste coming from all the spices and ginger which makes me so refreshing. And the cool thing is, this is great for digestion, since all the spices added in this is so good for you. Have this tea with some tea biscuit, in my case it should be marie biscuits. I dip the biscuits in the tea and have it sip by sip and it will be like heaven.
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Recipe for Masala Chai Powder
Masala Chai Spice Mix are cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, black pepper and dry ginger powder.
Masala Chai Ingredients
How to Make Masala Chai
- Make spice powder as given above.
- Now to make masala tea. Heat water in a sauce pan and add tea powder. Boil for 2 mins.
- Add milk and simmer for 2 to 3 mins.
- Add in spice powder and mix well. simmer for 2 to 3 mins.
- Sprinkle sugar and simmer for 2 mins.
- Strain and serve.
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Masala Chai | Masala Tea | Masala for Chai Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups Milk
- 1 tbsp Tea powder
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- ½ cup Water
Chai Masala Powder
- 20 no Cardamom
- 2 stick Cinnamon
- 10 no Cloves
- 1 tbsp Dry Ginger Powder
- 2 tsp Black Pepper
Instructions
- In a dry pan add all the masala powder ingrediants and start roasting. Roast till you get nice aroma from it. Now transfer this to a bowl and let it cool down completely. Add this to a blender and grind it to a fine powder. Transfer it to an air tight container and store for more than a month.
- Now to make masala tea. Take water in a sauce pan. Bring it to a boil. Add in tea powder and simmer for 2 to 3 mins.
- Heat milk in a sauce pan and bring it to a boil.
- Add in spice powder and simmer for 2 mins.
- Add sugar to taste and mix well. Simmer for 2 min.s
- Strain the tea using a strainer.
- Pour this chai into individual glasses and serve with any cookies.
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Masala Chai Recipe with Step by Step Pictures
1)Your tea masala ingredients. Take cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper and dry ginger powder.
2)Dry Roast spices in a dry pan. Roast on a low flame till it is toasted.
3)Cool the spices. Add the spices to a blender.
3)Add in dry ginger powder.
4)Powder till fine. This is your masala powder.
5)Take water in a sauce pan.
6)Bring it to a boil. Add in tea powder.
7)Boil the tea for 2 to 3 mins.
8)Add in milk
9)Keep mixing and pour it from a height to froth the milk.
10)Add in the tea masala.
11)Mix well. Simmer for 2 mins.
12)Add sugar for sweetness.
13)Bring it to a boil.
14)Strain it
15)Pour it into serving glass.
16)Serve
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simply.food
I could do with a cup right now, it looks perfect.
Treat and Trick
What a delightful drink!
Aruna Manikandan
love to take a sip 🙂
Hema
Masala chai with some Marie biscuits, absolutely my kind of a thing, home-made chai masala looks very good..
faseela
wow super tea....
meena
ahaa masala chai. my fav. i do buy ready made masala now but my mom used to make this.. if i remember correctly she used dry ginger the sonth type they say. rest same.. but masala chai is always best and in winters even better
Hema Nova
Wow, the tea looks very much refreshing. bookmarked.
Mina Joshi
Love masala chai. Amazingly- every one has their own style of making the masala and the tea.
Anonymous
We love this tea at UAE and call it Karak...i dont know if karak is indian name or no but i think it is the same masala chai
maha
masala chai looks just hot n healthy..im suff vth cold 4m last 2days.vl do this eveng
Ayşe
I like to drink green tea with cinnamon stick and cloves. This recipe sounds similar. I will definitely try it!
Roshu
Nt tried yet .....simple but impressive
Anonymous
Please can you make Karak chai as my friends telling me it is somewhat differ than masala chai
Torviewtoronto
delicious anytime
Christy Gerald
Yumm Masala Tea Dear.
kala
This chai is perfect for the chilling temperatures hereee....
Emily Lynne {The Best of this Life}
Wow, Aarthi, this looks amazing, I would so love to be drinking a cup of this hot tea right now. I love exotic tea! (just wrote a post the other day about tea!!) Thanks for sharing this beautiful recipe.
Rasi
Nice post aarthi..not many of us know how to make the masala 🙂
Vicki Bensinger
I've never made this from scratch before but your recipe sounds yummy. I've bookmarking this to try in the near future. Thank you for sharing.
Raksha
I just love this tea
Mitinita
I've been wondering if it can be done,it's not available to buy here. Can I use black tea leaves and grind them? I love your mortar and pestle!
Prabhamani
I just love it..Awesome chai 🙂
Mélange
Awesome recipe this one dear.
Shifee
correct chai for this weather... ll try today for sure n save the powder ;)for everyday
Sharmilee! :)
Flavourful and perfect for evening....
Anonymous
I made it today...not to mention the usual chai was unusually special..thank you so much for sharing this magic mix..
Luv
Deepti
Vijiskitchencreations
very nice chaya.
OPINFO CENTER
I was in Punjab, at Dera/Beas and I drinked this kind of tea.
Excellent.
Radha Soami
Ram Sharma
I like Organic Tea. good idea use organic tea
mtik
One of the best well presented recipes i've ever found on net. Many thanks.
Aarthi
@mtikYou have to grate that ginger into the milk while it is boiling
ilearner
Can you plz give the rough size of the cinnamon stick in inches ?
Aarthi
@ilearnerIt is around 5 to 6 cm
Jenisha Adaline
I made t..came out well.. Thanks to yummy tummy
Anonymous
Thank you so so much for sharing. you have made this tea special by having it with Marie biscuits! its my all time childhood favorite. i hv become a better cook by following your simple yet easy to get ingredients in Malaysia. Thank you once again & may the good God bless you!
ange
yummy! yummy! yummy!
Chai
One of the yummy and tasty chai ever drink
Anonymous
I can use black paper powder
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can use
Mary Varughese
Aarthi,have u tasted the chai they make at Saravana Bhavan. Absolutely my favorite. Do u know the recipe for it?
Mary Varughese
Dear Aarthi,have u tasted the chai they make at Saravana Bhavan. Absolutely my favorite. Do you know the recipe for it?
rohit
Arthi tea s perfect. I need some natural food for good mensturAl flow. It will be more helpful for all your friends..Please do the needful
Kalki
Tried your chai recipe. Must say it made my Sunday morning instantly great. Thanks for sharing a wonderful recipe