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Julie's Homemade Chai Iced Tea Recipe

From naturalfood365.com.

Ingredients

  • 5 cups boiling water
  • 8 black tea bags
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1/4 cup pure honey
  • 2 tsps ground Allspice
  • 2 tsps ground Cinnamon
  • 2 tsps ground Ginger

Instructions

  • Place tea bags in heat safe carafe. Pour 5 cups of boiling water over them. Let steep on counter 30 minutes, then place in refrigerator to finish steeping overnight.
  • Once tea has steeped, remove tea bags.
  • Measure the honey into a 1 cup heat safe glass measure
  • Add the spices. Stir and mix until it looks like slurry with all the spices stirred into the honey. Let stand for 5-10 minutes so spices have time to "bloom" and fully release their flavor.
  • Pour 1/2 cup of boiling water over the slurry mixture and stir well until honey is dissolved and all is combined.
  • Pour the slurry mix into the carafe of tea using the remaining 1/2 cup of boiling water to rinse all of the honey slurry into the carafe.
  • Stir and mix the tea and spices to combine.
  • Store in sealed carafe in the refrigerator.

To Serve:

  • Stir tea in carafe to recombine spices.
  • Pour 1 cup of tea mix over ice in a glass.
  • Add 1/4 cup low fat milk and stir.

Notes:

  • Some of the spices tend to settle so stir occasionally while drinking.
  • Experiment with your batches by adding a little more or less of each spice to create the balance you feel tastes the best.

Serving Metrics:

  • One serving provides: 53kcal | 2.2g Protein | 10.5g Carbs | 0.5gFat | 0.5g Fiber | 83mg Calcium | 31mg Sodium