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Chamomile chai in a glass cup with masala spices like cinnamon stick, cloves and cardamom pods
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Chamomile Chai Recipe

How to make caffeine-free masala chai with chamomile tea
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Prep Time:20 minutes

Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Use a knife to cut the nutmeg into small pieces.
    Combine the nutmeg with the roughly broken cinnamon, cardamom pods, and cloves in a pan.
    Roast the mixture over medium heat for a couple of minutes until you notice a delightful aroma of roasted spices.
    Cinnamon, cardamom and cloves roasting in a pan
  • Roughly crush the spices using a mortar and pestle. As and alternative, you can also use a food processor.
    Small mortar and pestle roughly crushing chai spices: cinnamon, cloves and cardamom
  • Place the spices and water in a saucepan and bring them to a simmer over medium heat. While heating, grate the peeled ginger into the water.
    Allow the mixture to simmer for around 5 minutes.
    Cardamom podes, cloves and cinnamon simmering in water to prepare chai tea
  • Add the chamomile tea and continue simmering for another 5 minutes.
    Chamomile dried flowers simmering in water together with chai spices
  • Then add the milk and let simmer for another 5 minutes.
    Adding milk to a saucepan that has chamomile flowers and chai spices
  • Turn the heat off, sweeten to taste and strain into the mugs.
    Plastic strainer with chai spices and chamomile tea

Notes

  • If you are making this chamomile chai for people with different preferences for sweetness, you can add the sugar (or sweetener) directly to each person's mug after straining the tea.
  • This recipe works well with almost any type of sweetener (regular sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup…), but one of my personal favorites is using homemade vanilla infused honey; it adds a delicious touch!

Nutrition

Serving: 8Oz. | Calories: 180kcal
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Indian-inspired
Keyword: chai, chamomile, spices
Servings: 2 Servings
Calories: 180kcal