Tea House Chai Concentrate - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 teaspoons black peppercorns
    2 teaspoons fresh gingerroot
    6 cardamom pods
    10 inches cinnamon sticks
    3 teaspoons whole cloves
    8 cups water
    8 teaspoons tea (Darjeeling, or herbal, Rooibis, or your choice)
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    3 teaspoons honey
    hot milk
    ground cinnamon (to garnish)
    Mocha chai
    chocolate milk
    Herbal Chai
    1 teaspoon dried chamomile
    1 teaspoon fennel seed, crushed
    1 teaspoon dried peppermint
Preparation
    Crush together the black pepper, ginger root, cardamom, cinnamon stick, and cloves in a coffee grinder or food processor(just pulse, do not grind to a powder).
    Add to 8 cups of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes.
    Add 8 teaspoons of tea. Allen uses Darjeeling OP. Steep for 8-10 minutes. Stain out the spices and tea. Add 1 teaspoons of vanilla and 3 teaspoons of honey, or sweeten to taste. Enjoy!
    This can be refrigerated for weeks.
    Heat up as needed and add an equal amount of hot(Allen steams his) milk. Top with ground cinnamon.
    Note:
    For a mocha chai, use chocolate milk instead of white.
    For herbal chai, replace the Darjeeling with 1 teaspoons each of chamomile, fennel seed and peppermint.

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