Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, chai | masala tea | indian masala chai is a vegetarian indain beverage made with tea powder, cardamoms, and black pepper in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2 Servings
- Category: beverage
- Cuisine: indain
Ingredients
- 2 tsp tea powder
- 2 cardamoms
- 4 black pepper
- 2 cloves
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 half cup milk
- half cup water
- 2 tsp sugar
Method
- firstly, in a small pan, take half cup of water and add cardamom, cloves, ginger, black pepper and boil for 2-3 min
- furthermore, bring it to boil and lower the flame. simmer it for 1-2 minutes until you get the nice aroma.
- also and tea leaves or tea powder and simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- now add milk, sugar.
- bring it to boil and brew for 2 minutes.
- furthermore, switch of the flame and filter out the tea powder and spices with a fine mesh sieve.
- finally, serve the masala chai with biscuits or with any breakfast recipes.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
