Karak Chai

Strong milk tea boiled with cardamom and saffron.

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp Black tea leaves
• 2 cups Water
• 1½ cups Evaporated milk
• 4 tbsp Sugar
• 5 Cardamom pods
• 1 pinch Saffron

Method

1. Boil the tea — Bring the water to a boil with crushed cardamom and the tea leaves and cook 4 minutes until very dark.
2. Add milk — Pour in the evaporated milk and sugar.
3. Boil and lower — Bring it up to a rolling boil, then drop the heat — repeat three times, which is what gives karak its body.
4. Steep — Add saffron and let it sit off the heat 2 minutes.
5. Karak is ready — Strain into small glasses and serve very hot.

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