Vanilla Chai
Learn how to make the most creamy and dreamy vanilla chai latte from scratch using ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen! This super easy vanilla chai tea latte recipe is full of sweet spices and tastes anything but simple. It only takes minutes to fix a quick cup that you can enjoy sipping all morning!
Ingredients
- 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/4 Teaspoon Cloves
- 1/4 Teaspoon Coriander
- 1/4 Teaspoon Black Peppercorn
- 1 Teaspoon Fresh Ginger Root Roughly Chopped
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Cup Milk
- 2 Tea Bags
- 2 Teaspoons Brown Sugar
- 2 Teaspoon Vanilla
Instructions
- Place spices in a mortar and pestle and lightly crush and blend spices together.
- Place small pot on stovetop and add water and ginger.
- Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a low simmer.
- Stir in spices, milk, brown sugar, and vanilla.
- Add in tea bags. (being sure to remove any paper labels attached first!)
- Cover pot with appropriate lid.
- Turn off heat and allow too steep for 7 minutes.
- Strain or scoop out ginger and teabags, (I like to use a tea bag squeezer or use a small stainless steel strainer over my teacup for less clean up.)
- Enjoy your Vanilla Chai Latte.
Notes
- While adding extra vanilla is a common baking practice, and even expected, I don’t recommend doing that for this recipe. It will taste slightly alcoholic.
- Brown sugar really is amazing in this tea and I highly recommend trying it at least once. However, if you don’t have any on hand or are sugar free, on a paleo diet etc, try some of these sweetener options: table sugar, agave, maple syrup, molasses, or stevia.
- Milk variations include: oat milk, almond milk, soy milk, whole milk, sweetened condensed milk (not: if you try this option leave out the sugar as it is already sweetened.) or half and half.
- Add 2 Tablespoons of canned pumpkin for a pumpkin vanilla chai latte.
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