Tea is a refreshing drink that provides an ideal start to a day. For most of the people, a cup of tea in the morning is an inseparable part of the daily routine. While some prefer it plain, with tea leaves, sugar (optional) and milk (optional), others like it spicy, with ginger and cardamom. India is known to prepare one of the finest spice tea recipes in the world. The ginger present in the tea gives a subtle flavor to it, apart from adding medicinal properties. Making spice tea is not too difficult, provided you know the right recipe. Read on to know about the procedure of homemade Indian spice tea.
Spice Tea Recipe
Materials Required
- 2 Cardamom pods
- ½ inch Ginger
- 2 cups water
- 2 tsp Black Tea Leaves
- Milk to taste
- Granulated Sugar, to sweeten
Directions
- The first step of making spice tea comprises of boiling 2 cups of water.
- While the water is getting hot, you can crush the ginger and cardamom pods (to expose seeds).
- When the water starts boiling, add the above crushed mixture it.
- Reduce the flame to low and allow the water to boil for a couple of minutes. This will help extract all the flavors of ginger and cardamom mixture and spread them thoroughly in water.
- Now, add 2 tbsp black tea leaves to the water, take the flame to full and bring the water to a boil.
- After this, add milk to the boiling water.
- Once the milk, along with other contents, reaches the boiling stage, remove from heat.
- Strain the tea into a cup, add the desired amount of sugar and serve hot.
