For the first time masala tea tried on vacation in India, since then I brew it almost every day, share the recipe.

What kind of tea is not in the world: black, green, white, oolong, mate... And the topic of our article today is popular in India black tea with milk and spices, or otherwise masala.



GettyImages Black Tea with Milk To begin with, what masala Indians call a mixture of certain seasonings and spices. It usually includes cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, black pepper and fennel seeds. But there are also mixtures of more than 20 components.



In turn, Europeans under the word masala mean a drink obtained by boiling black tea on milk with spices. Experts say that it warms perfectly in the cold season, and invigorates no worse than coffee.

How to Make Masala Tea Ingredients

• a piece of Pu-erh tea or 2-3 tbsp of ordinary black tea
• 0.5 liters of milk
• 3-4 buds of cloves
• 1-2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 star of a badyan
• pinch
• 5-7 cardamom buds
• 5 peas of black pepper
• 2–3 cm piece of ginger
• 1 tbsp water
• sugar

Preparation

1. Heat the water on low fire. Add some tea. Cook it to amber.
2. Put ginger sliced in small pieces in tea.
   
   
   
3. Warm up on the frying pan spices, grind in a mortar and add to the drink.
   
   
   
4. When you feel the aroma, pour milk and volumes of masala for another 5-10 minutes. To enhance the flavor with milk, you can put a piece of butter. Before drinking the tea through a sieve.
   
   
   
5. Add any sweetener.
6. In India, I tried masala tea, prepared according to a simpler scheme: tea, milk, ginger and cardamom. In any case, the ingredients are taken to taste, and the recipe does not claim to be authentic.
   
   
   
7. The drink is fragrant, hearty and perfectly warms in the cold. Bon appetit and new culinary discoveries!

Earlier we talked about tea with butter and salt (chuyma, or bo-cha), which is an important part of the daily diet of Tibetans. For most of our compatriots, the combination of tea and oil looks unusual, so it is difficult to resist and not try.

The article and the preview used photos.