PAGE ONE OF MY LIFE: Masala Chai

February 11, 2005

- Bon appetite

Masala Chai

By Diane at 2005-02-11 12:37 AM

After finising our New Year's Eve dinner, a cup of Chai might be a good start to introduce my family to Indian specialties. The truth is I was too full to do labor intensive work: grinding all spices to make masala; instead, I already got a ready made pack "Masala Tea" (bought from Nuts 'n Spices) to make my life easier.. although it's better to prepare all necessary spices by yourself (it tastes better!)

Steps are: (4 servings)

1. boil 1 cup of water.

2. add 4 teaspoon of Masala chai powder and simmer about 1 minutes.

3. add 3 cup of milk (better avoid nonfat milk to have richest taste!) into saucepan and bring to a second boil.

4. Preheat cups. Strain the chai, pour it into the warmed cups. Add sugar to taste (make it a bit more sweet...that's how Indian chai should taste like :)))) and serve immediately.
That's all!

::strain the tea (step4)

:: Of course, if served with some Indian sweets will be a great idea ;))

Next time I will try other recipes from this book to chai like Cardamon tea or chai or tea with strong ginger taste, the latter one perfectly suits winter time coz it will warm you up as soon as you have it :))

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Hey....Did I see MYSORE PA???!!
Oh...I'm feeling mouth watering la....

I also prepared masala tea for my family and relatices at grandma's palce during CNY...
one of my uncle said "這味道好奇怪喔..."
呵...有些人就是不會享受...
(or it's the problem of who made the tea..-_///)

Let's have a Indian dish fest on Sunday la.
Jo