Hot Spiced Chai Recipe

Key Takeaways

Hot Spiced Chai: Classic stovetop recipe combining cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom, fresh ginger, and black tea (or dandelion root or lemongrass), finished with milk and sweetener.
Chai Ingredients: Uses four whole and ground spices—cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom—plus fresh ginger, black tea or herbal alternatives, milk, and a preferred sweetener.
Simple Brewing Steps: Boil water with spices briefly, add tea and simmer, stir in milk and heat until hot but not boiling, then add sweetener and serve warm.

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc December 12, 2012

Ingredients:

3 cups water
4 cloves
2 pinches ground nutmeg
2 pinches ground cinnamon
2 pinches ground cardamom
½ inch piece of fresh ginger
1 teaspoon black tea (or dandelion root or lemon grass)
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons sweetener of your choice

Directions:

Boil the water with the spices for 2 minutes. Add the tea and simmer for two minutes. Add the milk and heat until hot but not boiling. Add sweetener and enjoy.

About the Author

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Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc

Vasant Lad is an Ayurvedic physician and educator and is respected throughout the world for his knowledge of Ayurveda. He is the founder of

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