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Masala Chai Go traditional and enjoy this beautiful masala chai, sans foam.

Dirty Chai Latte Add a shot of espresso to your chai latte (our favorite).

Vegan Chai Latte Make it plant based by using oat milk!.

Perfect Tea Latte Make a straight-up tea latte without the spices: even simpler.

Matcha Latte or Iced Matcha Latte These classic green drinks are creamy and delicious.

Vanilla latte how to#

Chai Latte Here’s how to make a chai latte at home…the easy way! This drink is creamy and cozy spiced with the perfect fluffy foam topping.Love drinking tea lattes? Here are a few more ways to enjoy the flavor of chai spices: Honey or agave syrup. These natural sweeteners also add gentle sweetness.Simple syrup has more of an intensely sweet, straightforward flavor. Maple syrup is our favorite natural sweetener for drinks: it adds nuance without maple flavor. Here’s what we like to use to sweeten it just right: This vanilla chai latte is crafted to be just sweet enough! If you’re used to super sugary drinks from Starbucks, you can add a little more sweetener in advance. Go to our Vegan Chai Latte post for how to froth non-dairy milk. *Want a vegan vanilla chai latte? These tips work only for dairy milk. For the French press, pump 100 times or 1 minute: this should result in beautiful, creamy and frothy foam! You can also use a hand frother (which works even better!), or simply vigorously whisk the milk.

Use a French press or hand frother. We used our French press to froth the milk and it worked great.

Or wait until the milk is hot to the touch with some small bubbles starting to form on the outside, but it’s not yet simmering.

Heat the milk to 150 degrees (scalding). The temperature is important for the perfect frothy foam.

Use whole milk if you like a richer latte, but avoid skim.*

The best milk for a tea latte? Our favorite is 2% milk.

If it’s your first time frothing, we highly recommend reading How to Froth Milk before you start. The most important part of a vanilla chai latte is frothing the milk! You’ll need a little technique to get the perfect foam, and some equipment. How to froth milk for a vanilla chai latte Here’s what you’ll need for the chai spices: This blend uses ground spices for simplicity, and it also allows you to use this mix in baking recipes. Often traditional masala chai will use whole spices, or require the cook to grind whole spices in a mortar and pestle. This Homemade Chai Spice mix uses common chai spices, but note there are many more used regionally in Indian blends. Masala chai spices can include many different ingredients based on the cook, just like curry powder. It’s just sweet enough and light instead of overly rich. It combines our masala chai recipe for milky tea with chai spices, then adds steamed milk for a frothy top.

The recipe below for a vanilla chai latte is gently spiced and subtly sweet, with a beautiful vanilla essence. Many coffeehouse versions of a chai latte have little left of the traditional Indian inspiration: they’re often too sweet and overly spiced.

The mashup was popularized by Starbucks in the 1990’s. So what’s a vanilla chai latte?Ī chai latte is a Western invention: it takes traditional masala chai, the milky spiced tea from India, and combines it with frothy steamed milk of a latte. Just like the word curry, a Westernized reduction of a complex blend of Indian spices, the American concept of chai can appropriate a rich Indian cultural tradition. The word masala refers to a blend of spices used in cooking. The more correct term for the Indian tea blend is masala chai. Why? The word chai translates to “tea” in Hindi, so saying chai tea is like saying “tea tea.” Avoid saying the words “vanilla chai tea latte.” In fact, ban the phase chai tea from your vocabulary all together. Why not to say chai tea latteįirst up: let’s talk terminology.

Here’s how to make it (and why not to order a chai tea latte). Add to it the frothed milk foam from a cafe latte, and you’ll feel like you’re drinking a fancy tea latte from your local coffee shop. In fact, maybe it will help me with my aversion to making it through the winter! This tea is flavored with the beautiful spices of masala chai: cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. How cozy does this cup look? Yes, this vanilla chai latte is the equivalent of putting on a fuzzy sweater and curling up by a roaring fireplace. A vanilla chai latte combines the spices of masala chai with the foam of a latte! This fancy tea latte tastes like it’s from a coffee shop.