Kenyan recipe

How to make Chai

Name: Chai
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 500 ml water; 500 ml milk; 3 teaspoons loose black tea (Kenyan if you can find it), or 3 tea bags; 2 to 4 teaspoons sugar, to taste; A small piece of fresh ginger, sliced, or 2 crushed cardamom pods (optional)

Chai ya maziwa (milk tea)

All of Kenya

Commons: Chai ya maziwa — Photo: Kaethe17, CC BY 4.0

Kenyan black tea boiled together with milk and sugar, sometimes with ginger or cardamom. It is drunk at breakfast and again during the day, and is offered to every guest.

Serves 4 10 min

Ingredients

500 ml water
500 ml milk
3 teaspoons loose black tea (Kenyan if you can find it), or 3 tea bags
2 to 4 teaspoons sugar, to taste
A small piece of fresh ginger, sliced, or 2 crushed cardamom pods (optional)

Method

Bring the water to the boil in a pan with the ginger or cardamom.
Add the milk and bring back to the boil, watching that it does not boil over.
Add the tea and sugar, lower the heat and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes until it is a rich brown colour.
Pour through a strainer into cups. Take care: it is very hot.

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Tea was first planted in Kenya in 1903, at Limuru near Nairobi. Today Kenya is one of the world's leading exporters of black tea.