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Scrumptious, wholesome and creamy chai latte recipe made with both caffeinated or caffeine-free tea and blended with frothy milk and a fruit solely sweetener.
When you’ve been studying this weblog for any size of time, you recognize that I really like sizzling drinks made with quite a lot of dairy and nondairy milk. I’ve posted various wholesome latte recipes over time, however by no means one utilizing chai tea!
Fact be informed, I actually don’t like chai tea when blended with water alone. Whereas I benefit from the style of Indian spices, they only don’t attraction to me as a sizzling tea.
Nonetheless, while you make chai tea right into a latte, it’s nothing in need of scrumptious!
What’s Chai?
Chai is the Hindi phrase for tea. All over the world, it has developed into quite a lot of tea blends. Sometimes, a base of black, inexperienced, or natural (akin to rooibos) is blended with Ayurvedic Indian spices akin to ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, and cloves. This creates a stimulating beverage when steeped in sizzling water or milk to heat and invigorate the physique.
In the end, conventional chai drinks can range from town-to-town and family-to-family, there isn’t a one tea mix that defines chai.
This model that I’ve been making at dwelling lately has grow to be my favourite latte to take pleasure in through the seemingly countless weeks of COVID lockdown.
Caffeinated or Decaf?
Is a chai latte caffeinated or caffeine free? You may make it both, because it seems!
Supply common chai made with black or inexperienced tea if you happen to want a caffeinated increase (ideally natural since tea leaves readily take up toxins from soil). This model is great.
This decaf chai is what I want to make use of as an alternative. The bottom is rooibos, a naturally caffeine-free herb, which, in my view, is extra flavorful than utilizing a decaf black tea as the bottom.
An excellent observe if you happen to’re undecided of your model is to chop open the tea luggage and steep in a stainless-steel tea filter as a result of widespread difficulty of microplastics in tea luggage.
Chai Latte Recipe
India’s chai tea blended right into a sizzling latte sweetened solely with fruit for a wholesome deal with that’s each energizing and stimulating to the senses.
Directions
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Deliver filtered water to a boil ideally in a tea kettle as an alternative of the microwave.
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Pour half cup boiling water into a big espresso mug and add chai tea utilizing a tea infuser or mini tea infuser kettle.
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Let steep for 3-5 minutes till tea may be very robust and black.
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Stir in date syrup and non-obligatory vanilla stevia.
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Pour half cup milk right into a small saucepan and activate medium warmth. If utilizing uncooked milk, warmth solely to 117 F/47 C (use a digital meals thermometer) after which take away from the warmth and promptly pour into the espresso mug to prime the triple energy chai tea. In any other case, if utilizing pasteurized milk, warmth the milk to a steamy, frothy state after which prime.