Chai Spice Blend. This chai spice mix is on the spicier side. We like our chai with a bite rather than a sweet spice mix so we added a little extra ground ginger. If you love yourself a sweet chai, try taking out some ginger and adding more cinnamon or even a teaspoon of coconut sugar or brown sugar.

The second is a bit more complex and may require a trip to a specialty foods store or a health food store that carries a nice variety of whole spices. Either way, you can mix up a batch and sprinkle. This chai spice blend is delicious in just about everything you're whipping up this holiday season from cookies and cakes to pancakes, eggnog and lattes! You can have Chai Spice Blend using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chai Spice Blend

🢂 1 of cinnamon stick, crumbled.
🢂 1 of star anise.
🢂 6 pods of green cardamom.
🢂 2 of cloves.
🢂 3 of curry leaves.

It's also great for cinnamon rolls and spiced nuts. This is the first time I've made a chai spice at home. I followed the directions as written. Removed the tea bag and heated it a few more seconds in the microwave.

step by step Chai Spice Blend

Toast all the spices over low heat until fragrant, stirring occaisionally. Curry leaves should be removed as soon as they start to brown. When cardamom pods puff up, remove and break them open then return to the pan..
Crush toasted spices well in a mortar and pestle or blend in a spice ginder.
Add 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of spice blend to a cup of hot tea and steep..

The glory of making your own spice blends is the fact that you can customize them exactly the way you want to, and this is my interpretation. I know some chai blends include allspice and even black pepper, and if you like these spices in your chai you can easily add them to the mix too. Chai Spice mix is a dry spice blend mix used to prepare the popular Indian tea, masala chai. Instead of using whole spices to prepare the tea, you save time by adding the finished chai spice mix to the cooking milk with tea leaves. A spice blend like this is sometimes also referred to as Masala Chai - with the word 'masala' being the Hindi work for spice and cardamom being a key spice using in a masala blend.