A morning never gets started without a cup of tea. Tea is a type of hot drink that boosts up your energy level in the morning.This tea is prepared by adding some traditional spices, and it also takes a little more time when compared with the preparation of other teas. The fresh fragrance from the ground spices when combined with the tea, enhances your energy level in a single snap. You may be new to this version of tea but once you start, you would like it. In this article you can have detailed information about its preparation.
Complexity Level: Moderate
Time required: 10 minutes approx
Resources required:
- Full cream milk
- Sugar
- Tea/ tea bags
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Bay leaves
- Ginger (Crushed)
- Cloves
- Pepper corn
- Water
Instructions:
1. Boil water:
- Switch on your stove and take a combination of water and milk in a shallow pan.
- In this tea water should be less and milk should be more; 1 cup of water with a combination of 2 cup of full cream milk will do. if you want to have extra rich taste of your masala tea, avoid water and use only full cream milk.
- Bring it to a boil. Add sugar to it.
2. Grind and prepare ‘Masala’:
- Now for masala Tea, the main part is the masala. Crush ginger, grind cloves, peppercorn, cinnamon and cardamom.
- Put the bay leaves in the boiling milk. Then add these ground masala along with crushed ginger.
- You can put whole masala also but when you grind those masalas, they explore more flavor and authentic spicy taste.
- If you are trying masala tea with whole masala, make sure to give a little crush so that you can get the flavor.
3. Add tea/tea bag:
- Let the masalas get boiled with milk for 2-3 minutes.
- Now add tea or tea bag to the boiling milk. Masala tea gets great flavor when prepared in strong flavored tea.
- When prepared in light flavored tea, the flavor of the spices does not get the expected taste. When you blend strong spicy fragrance with strong flavored tea, it gets you the traditional masala tea taste.
- Assam tea can be the best option in this recipe. Boil the tea bag for less then two minutes, and now switch off the stove and cover your pan for some more time. Now stain your tea and enjoy the refreshing spicy fragrance delivered from masala tea.
Frequently asked questions:
When I put the ground masala in the tea, some of the masala still remains in the tea after staining it to the cup. What is the other option for this?
Yes, this is a problem but also there are alternatives for this. While making masala tea, do not grind the masala to a powder, rather crush and place the whole masala in the boiling milk. In this case you will have to boil the tea for a little more time in order get the desired masala flavor. When adding the whole masala, you can put a chunk of whole ginger also. Boil all the masala first for at least for 10 minutes then add the tea bag. Switch off the stove and cover your tea for sometime before enjoying.
Quick tips:
- If you want to have exact taste and flavor of the masala tea, always make your tea in milk and ignore water.
- When you stain your tea, allow the remaining tea leaves and masala to cool down. Sprinkle this over your plants. It works as a great fertilizer.
Things to watch out for:
- Make sure to get a strong flavored tea while making this preparation.
- Do not boil your tea for a longer time after adding tea bag/tea leaves as it might spoil the taste of masala tea.
