Indian Chai Recipe

Indian chai or tea is the soul of every Indian. The day starts with a sip of chai and they’d love to have few cups of tea throughout the day.

What is Chai?

Chai is the quintessential hot beverage of the Indian subcontinent, made up of brewing of tea leaves, spices, and herbs. Every household has its own recipe for making chai. Some prefer it without masala or spices while others do love adding them.

The recipe I am posting is the way we make chai at home. I prefer adding ginger, green cardamom, and fennel seeds in my tea. However, traditional masala chai also contains a combination of clove, cardamom, nutmeg, aniseed, fennel seeds, ground ginger, cloves, and peppercorn. The spice mix for masala chai is also readily available in shops and supermarkets.

Indians are huge chai fans and you may find local chai walla’s (tea vendor) on roadside and people would take their morning tea on the way to the offices. Tea vendors occasionally bring loads of tea to business companies as well and serve it with local biscuits, savory puffs or sometimes with pakodas.

Basic Ingredients for Chai:

• Firstly, Loose black Tea- We prefer a good quality of loose black tea, mostly Assam tea to make our tea. But you can also use normal black tea bags.
• Milk- Usually whole milk is used to make the chai, but I guess it is your choice to use whatever kind of milk you prefer.
• Sweetener-Sugar is the first choice of sweetener in chai.

How to make chai?

Making chai takes a bit more time than the kettle boiled water brew tea. You’ll need a bit more patience to make it. Although it is very easy and once you get the hang of it, you will never be wrong.

Start making your tea by boiling water in a saucepan followed by adding tea, spices, milk, and sugar. Let the milk steamed. Now pour the tea in cops to serve. If you are using loose tea instead of tea bags then filter before serving.

Serving and Variations.

Serve the tea right away when you made it. You may add different combination of spices and herbs that I mentioned above or none at all.

Looking for more such drink recipes to get some ideas for your snacking? Do not miss my Dalgona Coffee and Jasmine Tea and the best one’s Lemon Iced tea.

*If you ever try this recipe don’t forget to share your photos with me on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter or tag me on Instagram @cookingwithsapana using the hashtag #cookingwithsapana and stay connected* I would love to see your creations from my space!!

Indian Chai Recipe | How to make Masala Chai

Sapana Behl

Chai is the heart and soul of every Indian, the most common beverage of all.

5 from 2 votes

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 People

Equipment

• Saucepan
• Sieve

Ingredients

  

1x2x3x

• 2 teaspoon black loose tea/2 black tea bags
• 1 ” ginger piece grated or pounded
• 1 cardamom crushed
• 1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds
• 1 1/2 cup milk
• 2 1/2 cups water
• sugar to taste

Instructions

 

• In a saucepan add water and bring it to boil.
• Once the water starts boiling add tea, grated ginger, crushed cardamom, and fennel seeds.
• Keep boiling for a minute and add milk. and sugar.
• Now bring the heat on low and let it boil again.
• When the tea starts boiling again, switch coof the heat.
• Sieve the tea in teapot or cups.
• Serve and enjoy.

Notes

1. Addition of spces is optional, you may simply make thechai with milk, sugar and tea without spices.
2. After adding the milk let it simmer and slowly boil so that milk can blend well in tea.
3. Add the tea only after the water is boiled.

Keyword Adrak wali chai, Chai recipe, How to make indian chai, Indian style chai, Masala chai

Tried this recipe?Mention @Behlsapana or tag #cookingwithsapana!

Always let me know how this recipe turned out in the comments below. I will be so excited to hear how you enjoyed your Chai and please do share your tips and tricks with me.

Don’t forget that you can also find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and  Pinterest.

Best Regards,
Sapana Behl