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Masala Chai

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India

Known as an Indian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. 6 tsp. sugar -- (or to taste)
  2. 1 1/2 cups water
  3. 1 stick cinnamon -- (1 inch)
  4. 8 cardamom pods
  5. 3 tsp. any unperfumed loose black tea
  6. 2/3 cup milk
  7. 8 whole cloves
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Makes: 2 small cups
  2. Put water in saucepan. Add cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves and bring to a boil. Cover, turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the milk and sugar and bring to a simmer again. Throw in the tea leaves, cover, and turn off the heat. After 2 minutes, strain the tea into two cups and serve immediately.
  3. >From: "Elaine Pawelko"

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

Recipe By: Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking. Saved from www.eat-lowfat.com (http://www.eat-lowfat.com/recipe/text/e1198-2.txt), file Original-Directories/www.eat-lowfat.com/recipe/text/e1198-2.txt in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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