Tandoor Chai

The first Tandoori chai was invented by 29 years old B.Sc. graduate Amol Dilip Rajdeo by the name " Chai LA The Tandoor Tea" in Pune.

At present they sell 20 variety of tea all made in tandoor like tandoori tea, tandoori coffee, turmeric milk etc. Today more than 13 states approach him for Chai LA in other cities and 10 other countries approach him to explore the avenues in abroad too.

"Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it."

Ingredients

Tandoori Tea

Kulhad/ Clay Bowl- 1

Water- ¼ Cup

Milk- 1 cup

Tea- 1 tsp

Sugar- 2 tsp

Ginger- ½ inch

Cardamom- 2 piece

How To Make?

To make tandoori tea we will first heat up a kulhad made of clay. you will find this kulhad in your nearest market. You have to heat it up in the direct flame and burn it until it gets black. If you have tandoor you can use tandoor also to burn it.The Charcoal flavor will be much nicer.

For tea part heat up the sauce pan, in this you have to add milk and water the quantity of water is 1/4 th cup and the quantity of milk is 1 cup.

Add both of them in and we will add 1 tsp of tea leaves, 2 tsp of sugar and you can also add half pinch of ginger, if you want to add Chai-masala you can totally add in that.

Now in medium to high flame we will make the chai by bringing it to a boil and after that lowering the flame and cooking it for 3 to 4 minutes.

Now for making the tandoori touch chai, place that clay tandoori kulhad inside a deep vessel. You can use another deep sauce pan for this.After this we will quickly pour the hot tea in highly black burned kulhad, that eruption formed in kulhad add charm to the tea.

Take out the chai from kulhad, now our tandoori chai is ready to serve, before serving we have to strain it.

It looks like any other tea but it taste like absolutely insane, the earthy flavor that we have in this chai thanks to the burned kulhad that we used is absolutely amazing in this.

Fun Fact

Amol Dilip Rajdeo was inspired from watching his grandmother who placed a kulhad of turmeric milk in the corner of a bonfire to heat it.