Easiest Way to Spring Perfect Kashmiri chai

Easiest Way to Spring Perfect Kashmiri chai Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Kashmiri chai. Kashmiri Chai is a traditional drink with delicious flavor and unique pink color. The pink color doesn't come from an artificial (or natural) coloring, it's a result of chlorophyl in tea reacting with bicarbonate of soda that's added to boiling tea leaves. Kashmiri Chai recipe is quite different from the traditional black tea.

Noon chai, also called shir chai (from Sanskrit 'milk tea'), gulabi chai, Kashmiri tea or pink tea, is a traditional tea beverage, originating from the Indian Subcontinent, most probably from the Kashmir Valley, made with gunpowder tea (green tea leaves rolled into small balls), milk and baking soda.

The process starts with heating up water to a simmer, then adding the loose-leaf tea.

Then, you take a big whisk and beat the tea water for twenty minutes.

You can have Kashmiri chai using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Kashmiri chai

1. You need 4 cups of Water.

2. It’s 3 tsp of Green tea.

3. Prepare 4 of Green cardamom.

4. You need 1 of Anise star.

5. It’s of Cinnamon stick 1 inch.

6. You need Clove of 5.

7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.

8. You need 2 pinch of Baking soda.

9. You need 1 cup of Cold water.

10. It’s of Milk as required.

11. You need of Sugar as per taste.

12. You need of Almonds/pistachios crushed.

Kashmiri Tea Recipe - How to Make Kashmiri Chai - Pink Tea: Today sharing step by step method to prepare the most popular and tasty chai recipe that people love to have especially in the winter season.

Yes, I am talking about the Kashmiri pink tea which is also famous as noon chai.

Kashmiri Chai, also known as noon chai, is a rosy pink, aromatic drink.

During the cooking process, the tea develops a maroon hue through oxidation and aeration.

Kashmiri chai step by step

1. In a pot add water, green tea, salt, baking soda and all mentioned spices. Cook it on low flame until 3/4 cups left..

2. Add cold water and stir well for about 10 minutes. Strain it properly..

3. In a sauce pan heat the milk and add prepared green tea mixture (qehwa) enough you get pink colour(otherwise its totally your choice of milk and qehwa ratio)..

4. Add crushed nuts(almonds and pistachios)and then sugar. Cook for more 10 minutes..

5. Garnish with more almonds and pistachios..

Amna Dogar, external vice president of PSA, remembers being back in her grandparents house in Pakistan, sipping this tea.

Food Fusion brings you a simple step by step Kashmiri Chai Recipe (Pink Tea) to enjoy in the winters.

It's our version tailored to Pakistan taste.

Kashmiri Chai is made from green tea leaves but these are not the Jasmine tea leaves that are regularly available.

The best Kashmiri Chai tea leaves in Karachi are available at Empress Market and can be found by asking for 'Kashmiri Chai' leaves.