The best chai tea latte Syrup Recipe with chai tea spices. After drinking a delicious chai latte at Starbucks, I experimented with spices for a long time. Until I cooked this super delicious homemade syrup for chai tea. The chai syrup tastes fantastic in chai tea. The best chai spices for tea, is cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves, anise, and pepper The cold season is starting and we have to get used to the idea that the days are getting shorter and often, unfortunately, much wetter. I actually don’t mind that so much. I enjoy the summer because we go to France and generally spend a lot of time outside but I also think fall and winter have their merits as seasons.
We still try to spend a lot of time outside and especially on weekends, even in the worst weather, we do not miss our walk in the woods. Afterward, of course, we need a nice warm drink to warm up and make ourselves comfortable. On these days I like to make myself a chai latte and because I was tired of buying ready-made products, which are often just way too sweet for me, I started at some point to cook my own chai latte syrup. It’s much easier than you think and you can store a small supply at home to reward yourself regularly with the delicious drink.
Chai Tea syrup – Homemade
Chai latte originates from Asia and has been prepared there since the 19th century. The name is derived from the word tea, which means “chai” in Mandarin. In the Hindu language, “Marsala” simply means mixture. So what sounds so special actually just means tea mixture. In India, tea is not drunk pure but boiled with a variety of spices such as cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. To avoid this hassle every time, you can make a very simple syrup yourself.
I usually use traditional English tea to make the chai latte and stir in about 2 to 3 teaspoons of syrup. To sweeten the whole thing up a bit, milk is added. I like to use foamed milk, which is nice and creamy and also looks great. Traditionally, a cinnamon stick is served with a chai latte to stir the tea. Cinnamon is said to have a whole range of positive benefits for our general well-being, and I especially like the delicious spicy taste and associate cinnamon with coziness.
The best Chai Tea Latte syrup recipe!
Chai lattes are a really awesome drink, especially in fall and winter time. I feel the spices are a perfect fit for this time of year and always get me in the right spirit for the wonderful scents I enjoy so much during the Christmas season. In the meantime, I have also managed to convince my children and my friends about the flavor, so that instead of the typical coffee in the afternoon, we also like to fall back on this delicious alternative. In addition, you can give homemade chai latte syrup beautifully as a gift. Bottled in jars after cooking, it keeps for quite a while and is perfect as a small giveaway to friends.
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What are the spices in chai Syrup:
Cinnamon cardamom, ginger, cloves, anise, and pepper
Another great idea to give away is a homemade Pumpkin Spice. You can find a recipe on my blog!
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Equipment
- 1 large pot
- 1 Spoon
- 1 measuring cup
- 1 sieve
- 1 mortar
Ingredients
- 20 cardamom pods
- 30 g ginger
- 30 cloves
- 20 cinnamon flowers
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken apart
- 1 black peppercorns
- 1 star anise
- 1 Pinch of nutmeg
- 4 tea bags of black tea
- 500 ml water
- 400 g sugar
Instructions
- Peel the fresh ginger and cut it into pieces. Crush the cardamom pods, cinnamon flowers, cloves and peppercorns very lightly in a mortar, but do not grind them. Break the cinnamon stick into coarse pieces.
- Bring all the spices, sugar and water to a boil in a saucepan and simmer on low heat for about 15 minutes.
- Then add the tea bags to the syrup and let everything steep together for about 5 minutes. It is important that the tea brews only briefly in the syrup, otherwise it will become bitter. Afterwards, the syrup is poured through a sieve and filled into small boiled bottles.
- Now you can, whenever you want, flavor a cup of tea with 2 to 3 teaspoons of the syrup and pour on creamy foamed milk. The syrup also tastes good just in hot milk.
