Source What's in your chai? How do you make it? In what? Stove or microwave? How do you clean the chai vessel? Which is the best chai you ever had? .
My current chai is a simple one: add cardamom and grated ginger to water in small steel vessel (1 cup, just me) when it starts to boil, add 1 tsp Wagh Bakri Premium Tea After 20-25 seconds, add some milk. Add sugar to cup, log in to IL or check email till chai boils. : ) Pour using plastic tea strainer bought from India eons ago. Sit down and have chai .. with mindfulness whenever possible.
What's in your chai? Freshly ground ginger and elaichi ALWAYS + Tea powder + freshly boiled milk + water NO SUGAR NO SWEETNER OF ANY SORTS ) How do you make it? In what? Stove or microwave? Stove. 3tsp tea powder (i drink strong chai) + 1/2 cup water + 1tsp ginger+ 2 cardamom pods. Boil for 2mins, add 1/2 cup boiled milk. Boil for 2mins again on low flame. Filter and drink. Heavenly !!!! How do you clean the chai vessel? Vim bar Which is the best chai you ever had? Tata tea gold leaf Red label natural cure
Ah chai.... I make just like you described it with either grated ginger or cardamom pods or fresh Basil leaves. Occasionally I add fennel seeds. My parents brought about 10 packs of Tata Premium tea a few years ago...it will last another decade . Mindfulness...yes!!
Our ingredients are almost the same yet so different in one way: I add tsps of sugar in number that cannot be disclosed.
Funnily, I never bought tea from India or had it mailed. I guess due to always having had Indian stores nearby. I once got dried home made ginger-garlic paste thin "patties" air-mailed..... Used to soak in warm water to use. : ) With the WFH, my chai session means that in addition to minding what's in the mind, I mind who is in the room...... They know better than to approach me with life's imponderables when I am having chai.
Haha well it took me long time to start enjoying the strong chai without sugar. Now even half a tea spoon of sugar added to chai (when being offered by others ) feels too sweet for my liking. It is quite the opposite for a cuppa coffee though! I cant drink it without the perfect ratio of coffee decoction:sugar:milk . ☕ Coffee is life. Tea is lifeline. Cant live without either
I secretly judge those who dont put any sugar in tea... I tried and tried and always lapsed , hence the envy I guess Once at the office pantry, a white colleague saw me adding sugar to coffee and commented "S, you are such a sweet person, you dont need that much sugar" Like really , sugar shame me :-|
What's in your chai? Water, milk, pound ginger, tea and sugar ( nattu sakarai aka jaggery powder) Ground elaichi on special occasions onli How do you make it? On stove, in saucepan. Boil 2 cups of water , add pound ginger , simmer till water becomes 1.5 cups ish , add half cup of milk, turn up the heat , wait for milk to boil and rise , simmer , add 2 tsp tea leaves , simmer till colour changes to light merawala tea shade , turn off the stove and cover for a couple of mins. Filter to cup , add 1 heaped tsp sugar , stir and sip and watch tv My mom disapproves of this add milk then tea leaves thing, but I dont approve boiling tea in water, anyway she is is a coffee person, so... How do you clean the chai vessel? Nothing special, once a week use sabeena. I use a wmf saucepan Which is the best chai you ever had? I savour my "tea" time . I have one cup a day and it is sacred time. Best chai - hmm maybe it's the nostalgia speaking- On trains, in winter , chai in matka
