Nepalese recipe
How to make Chiya
चिया
All of Nepal
Sweet milk tea, boiled together with black tea and often spiced with ginger or cardamom. It is served at every roadside stall and trekking lodge, in small glasses.
Ingredients
- 250 ml water
- 250 ml milk
- 2 teaspoons black tea leaves
- 2 to 3 teaspoons sugar
- 2 cardamom pods, crushed, and a thin slice of ginger
Method
- Bring the water to the boil with the cardamom and ginger and let it bubble for a minute.
- Add the tea leaves and simmer for one minute.
- Pour in the milk and sugar and bring it back to the boil, watching that it does not boil over.
- Strain into small glasses or cups and serve hot.
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