Saturday, July 27, 2013

Indian Tea / Chai

Tea kick start early morning and evening time just right way. The exotic taste of Tea not limited to it's benefits and variety of taste available in market ranging from Herbal to country specific style. Tea has a lot of health benefits and contain very less caffeine compare to other beverages. Tea have antioxidant nutrients which help in cure of cardiovascular ,cancer, liver diseases and many more.

The below is very simple recipe of Tea where in Winter you can add ginger to keep immune system stronger and its heat for body. While cooling purpose one can just add cardamom and neglect ginger for instance.

Yield : 4 Serving

Ingredients:
     
  Water                   1 Cup
  Tea                       2 Teaspoon
  Sugar                    4 Teaspoon (Adjust to your taste)Preferred: SweetnLow Brand
  Milk                      3 Cup
  Cardamom            1 Whole (Powdered with its cover for taste)
  Ginger                  a inch piece ( mess in mortar pestle)   OPTIONAL

Direction:

  Heat water in the thick quart Saucepan until it comes for first boil. Add tea, Sugar and Cardamom powdered and after a minute add milk. Boil all ingredients together then add ginger. Boil for another minute or so until you can find sweet cardamom,ginger aroma with red color.

Strain it with strainer in each serving cup. Serve Hot with Biscuit, Rusk, Toast.



NOTE:


  • Always add ginger in the last as it may spoil with uncooked milk .Adding ginger with uncooked milk spoil the Tea by separate whey and water. 
  • You can also add Tulsi /Basil leaves instead of ginger and cardamom.
  • You add Carom seeds with combination of ginger and cardamom to make a Masala Tea.
  • Don't boil Tea more than twice as it may introduce more gasteric in body.