{"id":687,"date":"2024-08-20T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/?p=687"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:51:51","slug":"turmeric-chai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/turmeric-chai\/","title":{"rendered":"Turmeric Chai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Makes about 20 drinks per batch (2tbsp chai mix per drink)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>8 tsp granulated sugar<br>8 tsp brown sugar<br>8 tsp coconut flakes<br>8 tsp non-dairy powdered creamer<br>5 tsp dry milk powder<br>3 tsp cinnamon<br>1 tsp coconut flour<br>1 tsp asam tea<br>1 tsp turmeric<br>1\/2 tsp fresh nutmeg<br>1\/4 tsp dried ginger<br>1 spoke of an ainse star<br>1\/8 tsp whole cumin seed<br>1\/8 tsp whole cloves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 tsp pure vanilla<br>1 cup water<br>2 cups 2% milk (can substitute almond, soy, oat, or rice milk)<br>ice as needed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Optional:<\/strong><br>Dirty Chai: 1-3 shots of espresso<br>Spiked Chai: 2tbsp bourbon or rum<br>Home Chai: 1-2 tsp honey<br>Beach Chai: 2tbsp coconut milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Proceedure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Grind your tea, cumin, ainse, and cloves finely with a mortar and pestle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grate your nutmeg and ginger as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring 1 cup of water to 200F degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Place all non-liquid ingredients into a spice grinder and grind until fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add 2 tbsp of your chai mix, 1 cup of hot water, and 2tsp vanilla to a french press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let stand for 2-10 minutes (the longer the better).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press the mix and pour into a cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add 2 cups milk, any optional ingredients, and ice as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively instead of ice you can also re-heat for hot chai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makes about 20 drinks per batch (2tbsp chai mix per drink) Ingredients 8 tsp granulated sugar8 tsp brown sugar8 tsp coconut flakes8 tsp non-dairy powdered creamer5 tsp dry milk powder3 tsp cinnamon1 tsp coconut flour1 tsp asam tea1 tsp turmeric1\/2 tsp fresh nutmeg1\/4 tsp dried ginger1 spoke of an ainse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[24,47,54,73],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian","tag-aromatic","tag-drink","tag-herbal","tag-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/gourmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}