Masala chai | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-09

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Masala chai


00:01:11 1 Traditional imasala chai/i
00:01:21 1.1 History
00:03:10 2 Ingredients
00:04:01 2.1 Tea
00:04:40 2.2 Spices
00:06:15 2.3 Milk
00:06:50 2.4 Sweetener
00:07:25 2.5 Preparation
00:09:05 2.6 Consumption of tea in the Indian subcontinent
00:09:58 3 Outside the Indian subcontinent
00:10:31 3.1 Tea-based mixes and concentrates
00:12:13 3.2 In Western cultures
00:12:53 3.3 Cold ichai/i
00:13:20 3.4 Components
00:14:30 4 See also



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Masala chai (; literally "mixed-spice tea") is a flavoured tea beverage made by brewing black tea with a mixture of aromatic Indian spices and herbs. Originating in the Indian subcontinent, the beverage has gained worldwide popularity, becoming a feature in many coffee and tea houses. Although traditionally prepared as a decoction of green cardamom pods, cinnamon sticks, ground cloves, ground ginger, and black peppercorn together with black tea leaves, retail versions include tea bags for infusion, instant powdered mixtures, and concentrates.

The term "chai" ultimately originated from the Mandarin Chinese word for tea 茶 chá. (The English word tea, though, comes from the Hokkien Chinese tê.) In English, this spiced tea is commonly referred to as masala chai or simply chai,  though the term refers to tea in general in the original language. Numerous United States coffee houses use the term chai latte or chai tea latte for their version to indicate that the steamed milk, much like a regular caffè latte, is mixed with a spiced tea concentrate instead of espresso. By 1994, the term had gained currency on the U.S. coffeehouse scene.