Spicy Tea - Recipe

What do you crave for most in winter? We always yearn for things hot and spicy. And when we talk about tea, spicy tea is what we would like to have in winter when the weather is extremely cold. Keeping this in view, I’m posting the recipe for Spicy Tea which I’m sure that you’d love.

Here are the ingredients for preparing Spicy Tea:

·         3 to 4 teaspoon tea leaves or 4 teabags

·         A small piece of dry ginger. If dry ginger isn’t in handy, you may use fresh ginger.

·         3 to 4 cardamom pods

·         3 cloves

·         A small piece of cinnamon

·         A teaspoon of fennel seeds (saunf)

·         A piece of two of black peppers (this however is an optional ingredient)

·         Sugar

·         Milk

If you’ve got the above ingredients ready, you can start preparing your Spicy Tea and the method of preparation is given below.

To begin, bring two cups of water to boil. Add the ingredients above apart from milk and sugar and boil the mixture for about fifteen seconds. Let the mixture stand for a minute and in the meantime, warm the milk in a pot. Pour tea into cups by filtering it through a sieve. Now, add milk and sugar to your liking. Your Spicy Tea is ready and you can enjoy sipping it.

If you think you are one of the lazy lots and don’t want to spend much time preparing the ingredients, you can take the above ingredients (except for milk and sugar) and grind them coarsely. Then, you just have to boil water add tea and a teaspoon of the ground spices. And the rest is as above.

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Preparing Indian Masala Tea (Chai)

Masala Chai is one popular tea in India. It is preferred by all from all corners of the country. Today, I’ll tell you (those who still don’t know how to prepare the same) how to prepare it. Here it goes.

First you have to prepare the masala (mixture of spices) and here is how you prepare the masala. Take the following things:

1.       A cup of dried ginger

2.       ½ cup of green cardamom (elaichi) pods

3.       A Tablespoon peppercorns

4.       Six or seven 2” cinnamon sticks

Now, grind the spices together and your masala is done.

For the tea, take a cup of water and put to hear. Add one and a half sugar, a quarter teaspoon of the masala you prepared two pinches of cardamom powder and a teaspoon tea leaves. Allow the mixture to simmer till the aroma emanates. Now add a cup of milk and then bring the tea to boil. Now allow it to simmer for another two minutes. Take it off from the flam an cover it. Keep it aside for two minutes. Drain the leaves from the tea and the tea is ready to be served.

Isn’t it easy?

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