You can make your own, it's pretty easy.....there are several different ways to do it, or you can make it however you like it!
Hari har Chai
2 cups (250ml) water
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon cinnamon - or a stick
4 whole cloves
5 cardamom pods
fresh ginger
bay leaf
handful of black loose leaf tea
1 cup (250ml) milk (dairy or soy as you prefer)
honey, optional
METHOD
Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan.
Meanwhile, mix all of the spices in a bowl. Add the tea to the spice mixture and stir to combine.
As soon as the water comes to the boil add the tea and spice blend and bring back to a boil. Add milk and bring back to a boil. (Be careful not to boil the tea for too long as excessive exposure of tea to heat will release the bitter tannins in the tea leaves.)
Once the chai tea returns to the boil; remove from the heat and pour into a tea pot.
If you like honey in your tea then add a little to the tea cup before straining the tea into it. Drink immediately.
Preparation method
1. In a saucepan, bring water to a boil. Add tea, honey and vanilla. Season with cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger and nutmeg. Simmer for 5 minutes. Pour in milk, and bring to a boil. Remove from heat, and strain through a large strainer.
How to Make Chai Tea:
Please note there are many ways to make Chai Tea and this is one which I prefer. Listed below are other tips and variations you can try.
Step 1: Using a coffee/spice grinder or mortar and pestle, grind up spices.
Step 2: Add tea to spice mixture. Fill tea pot or coffee plunger with boiling water and add spice mixture. Use 3/4 cup boiling water and 4 teaspoons of tea/spice mixture per serve. Let stand 3-4 minutes. Heat milk using stove top, microwave or even better use a coffee machine so you can produce frothy milk. This gives a cafe style chai tea latte. Add heated milk and sweeten to taste.
You can but Chai Latte Syrup at the supermarket. It is usually on the top shelf and hard to find. Not all supermarkets have it and it took me a while to find it. It is in a clear bottle but looks black, the label has 2 eyes with a question make like nose
There is a local-sh company down geelong way that makes instant chai...... not sure if they do a caffeine free one.. Yellow box with a sun type thing on the front.... it will come to me!
But the ones with tea don't generally taste like tea, so even if you don't like tea you might like those. I used to make the T2 one at work. Just with a little infuser and hot water, add lots of milk and heat in microwave. Not as good as boiled on the stove, but still good.
I got an awesome Chai at the Slow Food Festival in Melbourne a few years ago. Wish i could remember the name of it.
in nsw we had a place called Michele's Patissiere and they did a yum yum yum YUUUMMMMEEEE chai latte. I don't like the syrup ones but they used a powder. I'm so sad cos we moved to the NT and there ain't no Michele's here
but other than that I'd highly recommend making your own. It's soooo much nicer than anything you can buy, apart from michele's one, of course lol.
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