How to make Chai | Basic Indian Tea Recipe | Cooking Basics

Indian Tea is an essential beverage of every Indian home. India doesn’t have a long history of tea but over the years India has embraced this energizing drink as its own. India has its own way of brewing tea. Almost every Indian household have their own way of making Tea. We are presenting the basic kind of Indian ‘Chai.’

Ingredients:

·  Tea Powder – 2 ½ tsp

·  Milk – 2 ½ cup

·  Water – 2 cup

·  Sugar – 4 tsp

·  Chai Masala – 2 tsp (optional)

Method:

·  Boil 2 cups of water. Add Tea powder.

·  Let the tea powder infuse with the water and then add sugar.

·  Let everything boil for 5 mins on low flame.

·  Slowly add 2 cups of milk and keep stirring.

·  Boil till the tea rises till the brim of the saucepan.

·  Switch off the gas and strain the tea.