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This tea recipe is for those who enjoy taking care of their body, those who might have digstion problems, those who enjoy making, and drinking tea, or for those who would just like to try something new. This type of tea, also called Chai, finds it's origins in India. There are many different ways to experiment with this infusion, and I encourage you to do so. This is merely the recipe I eventually came up with, and ended up using nearly every day.
What you will need:
8 cardamon pods
2 staranis
5 cloves
2-3 bayleaves
1/2 tablespoon of whole black pepper corns
A piece of ginger roughly half the size of a thumb
1 Cinnamon stick
2 Teaspoon's of Black/Darjeeling tea
Milk
Sugar (brown preferred)
What you will need:
8 cardamon pods
2 staranis
5 cloves
2-3 bayleaves
1/2 tablespoon of whole black pepper corns
A piece of ginger roughly half the size of a thumb
1 Cinnamon stick
2 Teaspoon's of Black/Darjeeling tea
Milk
Sugar (brown preferred)
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Fill a saucepan with roughly 1 glass of water. Keep in mind that we will be adding milk, but that some of the water will evaporate during the process. It might some tries to get the amounts of liquid right.
Begin by crushing the cardamon pods, the seeds inside that provide the taste will need to be able to breathe to make their taste infuse with the water.
Begin by crushing the cardamon pods, the seeds inside that provide the taste will need to be able to breathe to make their taste infuse with the water.
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A bold claim, surely bolstered by rigorous testing and research. Delicious isn't reason enough?
Ginger, cardamon and cloves are considered to have the herbal "action" of aiding the digestion system. I'm no biology expert, but that seems to fall under the "processing of substances" idea.
Knowledge on herbs is as freely available as knowledge on any other subject. I collect mine from a fairly respected herbal from Margaret Grieve.
Maybe your talking about the "help keep your body in good shape" part. It does exactly that, it helps. It doesn't achieve, or give. It helps. So for people that are into taking care of there body etc., this will help a bit with that.
I think the part "should provide a healthy metabolism" creates some misunderstanding perhaps. Maybe "should provide a healthier metabolism" would have been more correct. Instead of an actual so called, healthy metabolism.
Because facts broken down, drinking an infusing of the herbs and spices in question, on a fairly regular basis, should provide a healthier metabolism.
That said, healthy, or healthier metabolism is an unusual thing to say... Your metabolism is not really at danger of being unhealthy.
What's wrong with tasty?
I am not claiming herbs are magic, or better then synthetic substances that provide the same thing. Your comment is giving me the idea you want to have a discussion just for the sake of having a discussion. If I would have said "Try this magic herbal substance to replace your synthetic medicine" you would have been completely correct. But this is not the case. This is not an instructable comparing traditional vs. synthetic medicine.
I am not claiming this is a tea that it can be substituted with any synthetical substance someone might be using. If that was the case, I would have complete understood your comments, and your need to discuss this with me.
I understand metabolism's are not considered something that cause danger, and I agree with this. People surely survive without aiding their bodies in any way, this again, is a completely different subject of conversation. I never said metabolism's are in danger of being unhealthy. That, sir, is a bold claim.
Certain herbs, and spices, aid the body. Certain synthetical substances also aid the body.
Who chooses what over what, and why. Is totally up to them.
We would have to define "danger" and "unhealthy" to talk about this.
But sparkling soda drinks have been proved to impact the metabolism in an "unhealthy" way. I'm not saying these spices effect the same part of the body, though.
But there certainly is such a thing as an "unhealthy metabolism".
Thanks for the recipe!
I actually never tried a chilled chai, it sounds like a good idea. The summer is on its way and this will have to be tried. Thanks for the tip!
A big deal, however, is that this is an AWESOME recipe! I've never put bay leaf in my chai before, but you can dang sure count on the fact that I will from here on out. MMM!!!! I love the clean and fresh flavor of bay, and suddenly can't understand why I've not put it in before.
EXCELLENT instructable and very easy to understand and follow. - Pj