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Green Tea Chai
CHAI 50g
GRADE – PG (Pekoe Gunpowder)
CAFFEINE / ANTIOXIDANT LEVEL: Low / High
Cup Characteristics: Superb green tea blended with fresh Asian spices for real green tea chai! Delicious, especially with milk and sugar.
Luxury ingredients: Green tea, Coriander, Cumin, Sweet Fennel, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Lemongrass leaves, Natural flavours.
£ 7.00
In stock
PRODUCT ID: 1399
Description
Green Tea Chai
Chai is so prevalent in India and Sri Lanka that it could be called the “National drink”. It is very common to see the “tea wadis” serving their chai to the walk-by street traffic. In North America we have the coffee carts; in the sub-continent and Sri Lanka you have the “wadis”. Paint the following picture in your mind: the “tea wadis” cart has that ‘well used’ look (read – bashed, dented), quite often with a charcoal fire going keeping the water boiling so steam and smoke are rising, an old evaporated milk can full of sugar, another bashed and dented can with the masala chai spices., an eclectic collection of semi -clean mugs and glasses and a wizened chai expert deftly pouring back and forth from great heights, tea with spices and milk, combining the two ingredients.
Once combined it is normal to add a fantastic amount of sugar for that real chai experience. Chai is brewed with milk and a mixture of spices. Each recipe can be different depending upon the spices used. The word ‘chai literally means tea and ‘masala’ is the word for the mixture of the various spices – hence Masala Chai. Numerous medical journals laud the health benefits of green tea. Top quality high grown green teas – the type of base tea in this chai contains a significant number of polyphenols which are antioxidants, elements known to inhibit various types of cancers.
IMPORTANT: Turn your bag of Chai upside down a few times. The powdered spices can settle at the bottom of the bag during transit.
HOT BREWING METHOD:
Bring filtered or freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil. Place 1 slightly heaping teaspoon of loose tea for each 7-9oz / 200-260ml of fluid volume in the teapot. Pour the boiling water into the teapot. Cover and let steep for 3-7 minutes according to taste (the longer the steeping time the stronger the tea). Ideal Brewing Temperature: 100ºC/212ºF
ICED TEA BREWING METHOD
(Pitcher): (to make 1 liter/quart): Place 6 slightly heaping teaspoons of loose tea into a teapot or heat resistant pitcher. Using filtered or freshly drawn cold water, boil and pour 1¼ cups/315ml over the tea. Steep for 5 minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the tea into your serving pitcher, straining the tea. Add ice and top-up the pitcher with cold water. Garnish and sweeten to taste. A rule of thumb when preparing freshly brewed iced tea is to increase the strength of hot tea since it will be poured over ice and diluted with cold water. (Note: Some luxury quality teas may turn cloudy when poured over ice. This is a sign of luxury quality and nothing to worry about.)
(Individual Serving): Place 1 slightly heaping teaspoon of loose tea into a teapot for each serving required. Using filtered or freshly drawn cold water, boil and pour 6-7oz/170-200ml per serving over the tea. Cover and let steep for 5 minutes. Add hot tea to a 12oz/375ml acrylic glass filled with ice, straining the tea. Not all of the tea will fit, allowing for approximately an additional ½ serving. Sweeten and/or add lemon to taste. A rule of thumb when preparing freshly brewed iced tea is to increase the strength of hot tea since it will be poured over ice and diluted. (Note: Some luxury quality teas may turn cloudy when poured over ice. This is a sign of luxury quality and nothing to worry about!)
We strongly recommend using filtered or freshly drawn cold water brought to a rolling boil when brewing all types of tea. Today’s water has been known to carry viruses, parasites and bacteria. Boiling the water will kill these elements and reduce the potential incidence of water-borne illnesses.
