Masala Chai Latte
Strong black tea simmered with fresh ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, milk, and sugar for a warming traditional-style masala chai.
🍽 2 servings
⏱ Prep: 5 min
🔥 Cook: 10 min
⏰ Total: 3 min
📊 Easy
Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 1-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced
- 6 green cardamom pods, lightly crushed
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 4 whole cloves
- 4 black peppercorns
- 2 tbsp or 4 bags loose black tea or black tea bags
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 2-3 tbsp sugar, to taste
Instructions
- Combine water, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and peppercorns in a saucepan.
- Bring to a gentle boil.
- Simmer 5 minutes.
- Add black tea.
- Simmer or steep 2-3 minutes.
- Add milk and sugar.
- Bring back to a gentle simmer while watching closely.
- Simmer another 2 minutes.
- Strain into mugs.
- Serve hot.
Chef's Notes
TEA: Use robust black tea such as Assam when available. SPICES: Crushing cardamom exposes the seeds and produces much better flavor.