Inevitably the question I get asked whenever my friends come over. If at all I drink tea, it’s always red tea or green tea. Boil some water, steep a tea bag, add 2 sugars, khatam. I never have any milk at home, as I hate the stuff.
All my friends must have their desi tea in the morning and afternoon, some even need it in the middle of the night. No question of skipping it, one of my friends actually gets headaches if she doesn’t get her dose of tea. So I got a big bag of Lipton tea, but whenever someone comes over, I always have to run out to get milk. Now someone is coming for nashta. It’s too cold to step out this morning.
Can I just hand her a tin of evaporated milk, or powdered milk or whatever, or will she give me dirty looks? How often do you have tea, what kind?
Can you make desi chai in the microwave? How does it taste compared to tea you make on the stove?
Evaporated milk is fine actually, powdered not so great. You can make desi chai in a microwave. Just add the teabag to the water and boil in the microwave. Take it out, strain the teabag, add some milk, reheat if u want it if u want it boiling hot otherwise u can drink it. Boht microwaved tea and stovetop tea ofcourse has distinct taste, I like both. The microwave tea is not as heavy as the one made on stove-top.
Boil water, steep the tea bags or loose leaf tea in a pre-warmed tea pot and let it steep for 4-5 mins. Add either half n half milk or whole milk or coffee creamer and sugar as per need. Tea should look like a rich rust color, not milk!
I’m not a tea person and neither is hubs. However, we do have the following in the house for guests or when we have the occasional desire to have a hot drink:
-green tea
-ginger tea
-green tea with mint
-chamomile tea
-coffee
-hot chocolate mix
-french vanilla cappuccino mix
-regular old tea bags
-some arab tea
Femme - Thanks for the recipe. I think I meant to say creamer, not powdered milk. Don’t know if that’s the same thing.
Afia - When I was young, my folks forced me to drink milk. Now I have an excuse - lactose intolerance I drink soymilk though.
sooraj-mukhi - thank you
Hinna - so many teas? My friend moved overseas a couple of months ago and left me a legacy of herbal teas. I steep em … and rinse my hair out with the tea. :k:
rinse ur hair out with herbal tea thats actually a good idea. I think i’ll try raspberry tea or something, get the fragrance and colour tint in my hair too
Non- milk/creamer teas-
Mint tea great for heart burn
Green tea & Jasmine tea soothing after an oily meal
Ginger tea for indigestion/gas
Chamomile & culinary lavendar tea for relaxation
Kashmiri kehwa to warm up the body on a cold winter night.
:)
Tea bags for black tea with milk.
One per person plus one for the pot. Try tetley orange pekoe with one tea bag of earl gray.
Open tea leaves
Darjeeling tea mixed equally with Lipton yellow label and Brook Bond PG tips for a morning wakeup call!
Hinna - Salty kashmiri chai?? ugh, that sounds so wrong!
Ira - Come to think of it, I'm not big on hot beverages. I'll only take hot lemon water if I have a cold or something. My down-time beverage would probably be a cold glass of vanilla soy milk or salty mint lassi. In this case lactose intolerance ka sawal nai paida hota ;)
No dear its not pink tea- kehwa is tea without milk, this is a brew of tea leaves and some spices that are traditional to kashmir and when you brew this tea the color is a soft reddish brown and the taste is very soothing with a bit of sugar.
im a coffee person but my all-time fav is namkeen chai a baltistani specialty ....its pink tea with salt and lotsa butter in it and eaten with a thick hard bread. its divine!
i tried chamomile tea...helped me to sleep well....
^^ its sooooo good! if its made the right way by a real balti person!!! trust me once u have it...u r hooked! i have gotten several friends hooked to it...they come over acting like they are here to see me but actually there for the tea.... :(
I drink soymilk though.
thats actually a good idea. I think i’ll try raspberry tea or something, get the fragrance and colour tint in my hair too 
but it sounds weird 