Railroad-Style Chai recipe

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Ingredients

2 cups water
1 tablespoon fennel seed
4 whole cloves, or more to taste
1 ½ teaspoons cardamom seeds
2 cups whole milk
4 black tea bags, or more to taste
1 tablespoon white sugar, or to taste

Nutrition Info

95.8 calories
carbohydrate: 10.5 g
cholesterol: 12.2 mg
fat: 4.3 g
fiber: 1.1 g
protein: 4.3 g
saturatedFat: 2.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 56.4 mg
sugar: 8.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan, add fennel, cloves, and cardamom. Continue boiling water for 3 minutes.

  2. Stir milk into the water and return mixture to a low boil, add tea bags, reduce heat to low, and boil until the tea has a strong, but not bitter flavor, 2 to 3 minutes.

  3. Strain tea into 4 tea mugs, sweeten with sugar to individual tastes.

Recipe Yield

1 quart

Recipe Note

Indian Railroad-style Chai: this is the real stuff served out of trays and passed through the windows at railroad stops all over India. If you can find mamri tea pearls from India, use 1/4 cup of that in place of the tea bags.

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