Meatless Monday Masala Chai ( Masala Tea)
Tea is my "go-to" inwards the even out when I come upward abode tired afterward work. Out of all the Masala Chais I pick out had, my hubby makes the best. This is i of my few luxuries: drinking a loving cup of husband-made tea inwards the evening! He makes it alongside all fresh ingredients in addition to is absolutely refreshing in addition to energizing ! This loving cup of tea gets me prepare for my minute shift;).
I similar my tea freshly brewed from tea leaves, potent in addition to thick alongside lots of milk. I practise non similar my tea bitter. I cannot stand upward tea made from tea-bags. They are also limp. Incidentally, since I gave upward milk a twelvemonth ago, I run almond milk inwards my tea. The best almond milk that gives me the gustatory modality closest to that of regular milk is the construct Almond breeze. Next comes Silk. None of the other brands jibe up. The alone matter alongside almond milk is that to larn the same gustatory modality equally tea alongside regular milk, for each loving cup of tea, one-half of it has to live on almond milk.
Here is my hubby's Chai recipe.
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
Water: 2 cups
Tea leaves: 2 tsp dark tea leaves of skillful quality.
Ginger: 1 inch, chopped
Cinnamon: 1 cm
Cloves: iii nos
Cardamom: 2 nos
Jeera(Cumin seeds): 10 nos
Black pepper: 2 nos, freshly ground.
Milk: 1/4 cup, warmed( tin add together to a greater extent than if you lot wish)
Brown sugar: 2 tsp per cup( tin alteration equally per taste.
Method:
In a saucepan house ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, jeera, in addition to dark pepper.
Divide the milk betwixt the 2 cups. Add carbohydrate to each cup. Now strain the tea in addition to add together it to the cup. Stir well.
Serve alongside about tea-biscuits or tea-rusk or something savory similar samosa.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
Even though freshly brewed tea tastes the best, tea could live on brewed a few hours ahead of time.It tin fifty-fifty live on left exterior overnight.It does non involve to live on refrigerated. Warm it upward at the fourth dimension of serving, add together milk in addition to carbohydrate equally needed in addition to serve.Black Tea does non become bad. It is alone when milk has been added to it in addition to has been left exterior that it goes bad.
Tip for salubrious living:
For centuries, dissimilar teas pick out been consumed for their wellness benefits. This of course of teaching depends on the type of tea. H5N1 mass could live on written on this topic.There are a myriad of herbal in addition to and so nosotros pick out the regular dark & greenish teas.
Both dark & greenish teas come upward from the same plant. Black tea is only tea leaves that pick out been oxidized more( left exposed to the air more).
Black tea has to a greater extent than caffeine than other teas in addition to thence makes you lot experience to a greater extent than alert. Black tea also contains a stimulating center known equally theophylline that also helps us inwards feeling to a greater extent than alert. Black tea contains substances called polyphenols & catechins which are antioxidants in addition to helps protect cells from deoxyribonucleic acid harm in addition to thereby mayhap foreclose atherosclerosis in addition to about types of cancer.Black tea is also supposed to live on beneficial inwards lowering the opportunity of diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney stones, Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis in addition to lung cancer.
References:
http://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/Health-benefits-of-black-tea/articleshow/8508759.cms
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/997.html
http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/black-tea-uses-and-risks
Food for thought:
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