Name: Railroad-Style Chai recipe
Ingredients: 2 cups water;1 tablespoon fennel seed;4 whole cloves, or more to taste;1 ½ teaspoons cardamom seeds;2 cups whole milk;4 black tea bags, or more to taste;1 tablespoon white sugar, or to taste

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Ingredients

2 cups water 1 tablespoon fennel seed 4 whole cloves, or more to taste 1 ½ teaspoons cardamom seeds 2 cups whole milk 4 black tea bags, or more to taste 1 tablespoon white sugar, or to taste

Nutrition Info

95.8 calories carbohydrate: 10.5 g cholesterol: 12.2 mg fat: 4.3 g fiber: 1.1 g protein: 4.3 g saturatedFat: 2.3 g servingSize: - sodium: 56.4 mg sugar: 8.6 g transFat: : - unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

Bring water to a boil in a saucepan, add fennel, cloves, and cardamom. Continue boiling water for 3 minutes.
Stir milk into the water and return mixture to a low boil, add tea bags, reduce heat to low, and boil until the tea has a strong, but not bitter flavor, 2 to 3 minutes.
Strain tea into 4 tea mugs, sweeten with sugar to individual tastes.

Recipe Yield

1 quart

Recipe Note

Indian Railroad-style Chai: this is the real stuff served out of trays and passed through the windows at railroad stops all over India. If you can find mamri tea pearls from India, use 1/4 cup of that in place of the tea bags.

Alternatives to this recipe

Railroad-Style Chai