Homemade Chai Tea Latte
Make your own creamy, flavorful homemade chai tea latte with this easy recipe. Customize the spices to your liking and enjoy a cozy, affordable treat that’s better than the coffee shop version.
Servings: 2 servings
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups milk or half n half
- 1 cinnamon stick broken in half
- 1 vanilla bean split in half and beans scraped out
- 5-7 peppercorns
- ½ - 1 teaspoon cardamom
- ¼ - ½ teaspoon nutmeg allspice, ground ginger, each
- 3-5 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 cups of black tea
Instructions
- Steep the tea, making it as strong as you like, using whichever tea you prefer.
- In a small saucepan, combine the milk (or half n half) cinnamon stick (you can use ground cinnamon instead), vanilla bean, peppercorns, cardamom (I could only friend the ground cardamom, you can use the cardamom pods), ground ginger, allspice and nutmeg. I really recommend using whole nutmeg, that you have to grate, instead of ground nutmeg, because it makes a HUGE difference in taste. Add the brown sugar, as much as you like.
- Bring the milk to a simmer, turn it off and let it steep for about 5 minutes. Keep in mind that the milk will be much stronger in flavor, but will balance out when you add it to the tea.
- Strain the milk through a fine mesh sieve.
- Froth up the milk with the milk frother.
- Pour the milk into the tea. Spoon some of the foam on top of the Chai Tea Latte.
