Traditional India Chai tea is a creamy tea made with hot milk instead of water. Chai tea is traditionally made by infusing ingredients such as black tea, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and sugar into the hot milk.
Chai tea blends are made using ingredients such as rooibos, black tea, spices, herbs and sometimes also dried fruit. Our selection includes a Chai of Madagascar with African Rooibos, an Authentic Indian Masala Chai and a Calming Herbal Chai.
In India, Chai tea is a commonly consumed beverage that is consumed to aid digestion and create a sense of well-being. In recent years, the consumption of Chai tea has spread to most Western cultures and has become a very popular beverage in cafés - normally served as an alternative to cafe latte coffee.
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While Chai tea is traditionally a milky beverage, you can brew chai tea with hot water. This makes a very different but equally enjoyable drink.
For the more creative cooks, chia tea is also a great ingredient for use in deserts. For example, you could infuse your milky chai tea into home-made ice cream or use it instead of plain milk when baking sponge cakes.
Traditionally, Indians viewed tea as a herbal medicine rather than a recreational beverage. The popular consumption of Chai tea, as a non-medicinal beverage in India, was the result of a campaign set forth by the British owned Indian Tea Association during the early 20th Century. The association encouraged employers in factories, mines and textile mills to give tea breaks to their workers. As this was a British campaign, tea was served with milk and sugar. Independent vendors would add spices and increase the amount of milk and sugar, thereby reducing the amount of black tea used. While this was not the intention of the campaign, it popularised the consumption of the milky Chai tea that the Indian population now know and love.
This breath-taking and exotic Chai tea is a luxurious marriage of tender green South African honey bush leaves, juicy ambrosial orange chunks, darkly fragrant cocoa bits and delicious Indian spices that offers a truly stunning infusion.
An exquisite balance of the finest-quality Orthodox Indian Assam leaves and exotically flavoursome, traditionally-grown Indian spices such as cinnamon, cloves and cardamom, make this most famous of black teas a wonderfully rich and tasty infusion.
This invigorating and uplifting herbal tea is a combination of aromatic lemongrass and spicy ginger pieces, mixed with soothing peppermint and liquorice for a gentle natural sweetness.
With an exquisite blend of subtle chamomile, traditionally used as a calming agent, lemon peel and bay leaves known for their mild anti-irritant properties this delicious infusion is the perfect way to ease stress and promote relaxation.
This blend contains refreshing hawthorn leaves as well as a classic spice mix. The brew imparts a vitalising warm drink, perfect to enjoy during cold days and is pleasant at any time of day.
This breath-taking and exotic Chai tea is a luxurious marriage of tender green South African honey bush leaves, juicy ambrosial orange chunks, darkly fragrant cocoa bits and delicious Indian spices that offers a truly stunning infusion.
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