Chai

Ingredients

• 2 green cardamom pods
• 1 black cardamom pod
• 3 cloves
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cups milk
• 2 tsp CTC tea
• 3 tsp sugar
• 1 star anise
• 1/2 cinnamon stick

Instructions

• Grind the green cardamom pods, black cardamom pod, and cloves, coarsely preferably using a mortar.
• Add ground black pepper, and nutmeg to the spice mix.
• Put water, and milk in a saucepan and put it on a low flame.
• Add CTC tea, sugar, star anise, cinnamon stick, and the spice mix into the saucepan.
• Turn up heat, and wait til liquid boils up.
• Reduce heat to make sure the liquid does not boil over.
• Repeat previous 2 steps twice and then put it on simmer for a 5 minutes.
• Use a strainer to filter out the tea.