MASALA CHAI

The whole of last month was pretty busy with so many activities going on with regards to the India Fest.  But I enjoyed so much doing 2 demos, Food booth activities, Pictures I shot for the Souvenir book.  The name of booth was Dishesfrommykitchen.com .  My Masala chai and Jigarthanda which we had in our food booth was super hit in the India fest and everybody enjoyed it.  The Demo which I did in India Fest went very well and I did in the Theme of heritage so I showed the basic south India seasoning of Garbanzo beans and the Moong Salad. The recipes for the Garbanzo beans and Moong salad are here and here.  The people who attended the demo really enjoyed and loved the taste.  Unfortunately I don't have much pictures of India fest as we were really really busy with the Food booth; we didn't even have time to breath.  I took the pictures only after the closure but I am yet to get the pictures of the Food Demo from the IAM team.  Anyway here I am sharing the few pictures which I took at the end of the day. 

One more good news is that November 5th was my blog anniversary and the same day was India fest, it was like we celebrated the blog anniversary through India fest.  

 

 

As requested by many people there in India Fest here is the recipe for Masala Chai.  Masala chai (literally "spiced tea") is a beverage from the Indian subcontinent made by brewing tea with a mixture of aromatic Indian spices and herbs.

 

 

MASALA CHAI

This is for 2 glass of Chai.

Ingredients :

Water - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Tea dust/Tea leaves - 1/4 tsp (heaped)
Cardamom powder - less then 1/8 tsp
Fresh Ginger or Ginger powder - grated less then 1/8 tsp
Sugar - as required

Other optional masala you can add :

Cinnamon powder - less then 1/8 tsp
Pepper - less then 1/8 tsp
Nutmeg - less then 1/8 tsp

 

 

 

 

 

 

Method :

1.  Add the tea powder/dust in the water, add the cardamom and Ginger and let it come to rolling boil.
2. Close and keep it aside for 15 minutes.
3. Add the milk to the decoction, add required sugar.
4. Let it again come to nice boil.
5. Strain it.

Enjoy the Delicious and soothing Masala Tea/Chai.

Note :  

 

1.  If you need the chai to be strong increase the amount of tea powder.

2. Add milk according to your preference(more or less).