Spiced Butter Tea
Faintly sweet and bitter, this spiced butter tea combines the rich warmth of cardamom, ginger, fennel, black pepper, anise and other spices with ghee, milk, jaggery for a warming, creamy morning tea.
Ingredients
For the Spiced Tea
- 4 cups water
- 3 tablespoons puerh tea
- 8 cardamom pods crushed
- 6 whole cloves
- 2 star anise pods
- 1 ceylon cinnamon stick
- 1 tablespoon dried ginger not powdered
- 1 tablespoon fennel seeds
- 2 teaspoons coriander seed
- 2 teaspoons black peppercorns
- ½ teaspoon anise seeds
For Each Cup of Tea
- 1 tablespoon jaggery
- 1 tablespoon ghee
- Pinch fine sea salt
- ¼ cup whole milk
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil over high heat, and drop in the tea and spices. Immediately reduce the heat to medium, and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat, and strain the tea. You can serve the tea immediately, or pour it into a jar and keep it in the fridge for up to one week.
- To prepare a cup of the tea, heat one cup of the prepared tea in a saucepan over medium-high heat until very hot. Stir in the jaggery and salt, until completely dissolved. Stir in the ghee and the milk. Turn off the heat and blend until frothy with a hand-held milk frother. Pour into a teacup and serve hot.
