Easiest Way to Fall Tasty Kashmiri chai

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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.

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.

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.

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

Ingredients of Kashmiri chai

  1. Prepare of Water.

  2. Prepare of Green tea.

  3. Prepare of Green cardamom.

  4. You need of Anise star.

  5. It’s of Cinnamon stick 1 inch.

  6. You need of 5.

  7. You need of Salt.

  8. You need of Baking soda.

  9. You need of Cold water.

  10. It’s of Milk as required.

  11. Prepare of Sugar as per taste.

  12. Prepare of Almonds/pistachios crushed.

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.

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

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..

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.

They are also easily available in Lahore & Islamabad, and even internationally.