National Chai Day is September 21, and it celebrates the beverage that consists of black tea brewed with water, milk, spices and a sweetener. The spices added to the tea can include cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, star anise, cloves, and nutmeg. The result is a spicy, sweet, milky drink that is quite at home with today's "swicy" flavor trend.
While chai tea is delicious on its own, it can also be added to cocktails or mocktails for a flavorful twist. We've compiled a collection of chai recipes for you to add to your menus this fall.
Non-Alc Recipes
Chai Dalgona
Ingredients:
1/2 oz. Monin Chai Tea Concentrate
3 oz. milk
Top with:
2 tbsp. ground, dark roast coffee
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. cold water
Directions:
- Fill serving glass full of ice.
- Pour ingredients into serving glass in order listed.
- Stir gently to mix.
- Add garnish and serve.
Pumpkin Dirty Chai Latte
Ingredients:
1/2 oz. Monin Pumpkin Spice Syrup
1/2 oz. Monin Chai Tea Concentrate
2 shot(s) espresso
Fill with steamed milk
- Combine ingredients, except milk, in serving cup.
- Stir and set aside.
- Steam milk in pitcher.
- Pour steamed milk into serving cup, stirring gently.
- Garnish.
Cocktail Recipes
Wise Chai New Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 cups of THE WISEMAN™ Bourbon
0.5 cups of chai syrup
2 dashes of aromatic bitters
Orange peel
Star anise
Cinnamon stick
Directions:
For the chai syrup, brew 3 bags of chai tea, combine with equal parts sugar and heat until dissolved. Once syrup is chilled, Stir in a mixing glass with ice and strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice block, sphere or cubes. Garnish with orange peel, star anise, and smoking cinnamon stick.
Franken-Chai
Ingredients:
1 ¾ oz. Charbay Doubled & Twisted Whiskey
¾ oz. The Perfect Purée Chipotle Sour Blend, thawed
½ oz. oat milk
¼ whole star anise
¼ oz. vanilla syrup
1 whole cardamom
1 whole clove
Directions:
Lightly muddle star anise, cardamom, and clove. Combine other ingredients and shake with ice until cold and frothy. Double strain into a rocks filled glass.
Live Free or Die Chai'n
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Absolut Vanilla
1 oz Chai syrup
.25 oz Kahlua
.25 oz Espresso or cold brew concentrate
Directions:
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a coupe glass.
Blood Orange & Chai
Ingredients:
1 oz. Tequila Cazadores Anejo
1 oz. The Perfect Purée Blood Orange Concentrate, thawed
1 tea bag of chai
1 oz. agave nectar
4 oz. hot water
3 whole cloves
whipped cream, garnish
fresh grated nutmeg, garnish
Directions:
Combine all the ingredients in a coffee mug. Stir and garnish with whipped cream and nutmeg.
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