Ugandan
Ugandan Chai (Spiced Tea)
A rich, creamy, and aromatic spiced tea made by boiling black tea leaves with fresh ginger and sometimes other spices in a mixture of water and milk. It's a deeply comforting and essential daily beverage across Uganda.
Ingredients
Method
- Combine the water, milk, crushed ginger, and optional cardamom and cinnamon in a saucepan.
- Place the saucepan over medium-high heat and bring the mixture to a boil. Watch carefully to prevent it from boiling over.
- Once it begins to boil, reduce the heat to low and add the black tea leaves (or tea bags).
- Let the tea simmer gently for 3-5 minutes, depending on how strong you like it. Stir occasionally.
- Add the sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved.
- Turn off the heat. If you used loose tea leaves and whole spices, pour the chai through a strainer into cups or a teapot. If you used tea bags, you can simply remove them.
- Pour the chai into mugs and serve immediately while hot.