Delicious hot drink for the cold winter weather. This drink is super easy to make and can either be made as described in the recipe below. You can minimize the bitter taste from the black tea by not boiling the tea in step 5 and instead putting the rest of the milk in the pot and putting it in the fridge for a day to steep. Then strain the dry ingredients from the chai latte and heat it up following the recipe as prescribed in step 8 and onwards.
I must admit that I really like using Saigon cinnamon (Vietnamese cassia), which is very similar to other types of cassia (the type of cinnamon usually bought in supermarkets).
Chai latte
Ingredients
- 3 cinnamon sticks (about 10 g)
- ¾ tsp cloves (amounts to 15 cloves)
- 2 tsp cardamom seeds (about 6 g)
- 3 peppercorns
- 5 g fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp black tea leaves (about 6 g)
- ½ dl water
- 5 dl oatmilk (or normal milk)
- 1 dl foamable oatmilk cream (or coffee creamer)
- 1 tsp Cinnamon powder Optional
Instructions
- Crush the cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and pepper in a mortar
- Cut the ginger into smaller pieces
- Mix the spices from the mortar, the ginger, the black tea leaves, the water in a saucepan
- Add enough oatmilk to cover the spices in the saucepan competly
- Cook the chai latte in the sauce pan for about 10 min
- Add the rest of the oatmilk and cook till warm
- Pour the chai latte through a strainer and into three glasses
- Pour the cream in a bowl and skim the milk
- Pour the cream on top of the chai late in the glasses
- Optional: Sprinkle some cinnamon powder on top of the drink before serving