Homemade Edible Gift: Chai Tea Mix

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

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Need a last-minute gift idea? This chai tea mix is fairly simple to put together, not terribly expensive (especially if you have access to bulk spices and some jars in your house), and looks lovely. It is great for the holidays and you can keep a few on hand for hostess gifts as well.

Chai Tea Mix Recipe
This recipe fills 2 half-quart jars. Each  jar makes around 15 servings of tea.

  • 24 green cardamom pods
  • 2 t rainbow peppercorns
  • 2 T fennel seeds
  • 1 t coriander seeds
  • 1 t whole cloves
  • 2 4-inch cinnamon sticks
  • 6 T chopped candied ginger
  • 1 C loose black tea (I used organic free trade Keemun from World Market)

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350ºF. Slice cardamom pods in half. Combine with peppercorns, fennel seeds, coriander seeds, cloves, and cinnamon stick. Bake for 5 minutes (or until fragrant).

Step 2: Lightly crush spices with a mortar and pestle (if you don’t have one, try a rolling pin).

Step 3: Combine spices with chopped candied ginger and black tea.

Step 4: Fill a small jar with chai tea mix, attach the instructions (listed below), a tea infuser, and decorate as you like.

Chai Tea Mix Brewing Instructions

  • 1 cup of water
  • ½ cup of milk
  • 1 T of chai mix in tea infuser
  • Honey or sugar to taste

Bring water to a boil and add tea infuser. Turn off heat and let steep for about 5 mins. Add milk and reheat until hot. Remove from heat, remove infuser, sweeten to taste, and enjoy!

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10 Responses to “Homemade Edible Gift: Chai Tea Mix”
  1. sensiblecooking writes:
    No. 1 — December 14th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Oh Stephine, Love love love chai. But never had recipe. Love those combinations of cinnamon, cardamon, cloves. Gift or not they will surely be my regular drink in my kitchen.

  2. May Ling Wu writes:
    No. 2 — December 14th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    What a cute idea! Love it!

  3. torviewtoronto writes:
    No. 3 — December 14th, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    lovely holiday gift
    my favourite type of tea

  4. leaf (the indolent cook) writes:
    No. 4 — December 14th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    That looks lovely… what a great gift idea!

  5. Lena writes:
    No. 5 — December 15th, 2010 at 8:48 am

    What a great gift idea! I love chai tea and I’m always looking for new gift ideas. I also like, that it just doesn’t fit only for Christmas, but for any other occasion. Also I have my Christmas gifts already ready ;) .
    Thanks for the idea.

  6. Hilah writes:
    No. 6 — December 15th, 2010 at 9:42 am

    What a great idea! I make this by the cup for myself but never even thought about mixing up a big batch.

  7. Dimah writes:
    No. 7 — December 15th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    What a cute idea!

  8. Sparkling Peppermint Sugar Cookies | 52 Kitchen Adventures writes:
    No. 8 — December 23rd, 2010 at 9:03 am

    [...] finally made some holiday cookies (I usually make lots of kinds and give them to friends, but the chai tea mix took the place of a lot of that this year) and I have found one of my favorite holiday cookies [...]

  9. Trish @I_am_Succeeding writes:
    No. 9 — January 16th, 2011 at 6:19 am

    Chai tea is my all time fave flavored tea…this is a great idea…thank you for sharing it.

  10. Chai Tea writes:
    No. 10 — March 12th, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    It’s nearly impossible to find educated people on this subject, but you seem like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks

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