Chai
Chai, also called masala tea, is black tea infused with warming spices and mellowed with milk. Fellow vegans, skip the cow, go for plantbased milk. Oat milk in particular makes amazing, creamy chai.
Ingredients
- 4 cups water
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger chopped
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/2 teaspoon cardamom seeds
- 6 whole cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon anise seed
- 6 whole black peppercorns
- 3 black teabags
- 1 cup plantbased milk — unsweetened plain oat milk is excellent
- sweetener of choice
Instructions
- Bring the water to boil in a medium saucepan. Drop in all the spices — ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, anise seed, and pepper.
- Turn off the heat, place the lid on the pot, and keep the pot on a the burner.
- Leave the spices to infuse the water for about 10 minutes.
- Then drop in 3 teabags of black tea. Decaffeinated black tea works, too. Let the tea and spices steep for few minutes.
- Fish out the teabags and strain the spices
- Add 1 cup of unsweetened plain plantbased milk to the spiced tea.
- Heat through, sweeten as desired, and you’ve got chai.
Notes
Serves 4.