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    Chai (More Milk)

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    A cutting glass of milky, caramel-brown chai with a star anise floating on top1,500+ cooks
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    • Total time:9min
    • Your hands-on time:4min you
    • Longest hands-free stretch:3min free

    How upliance makes chai(more milk), step by step

    Outside the jar · a sieve
    CHOP
    STIR
    HEAT
    MASH
    READY
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    Milky chai. Done.
    4 min5 min
    1. upliance, upliance

      This brews it.

      • BOIL
      • MIX
      • STIR
      +−What is it?

      upliance is a steel jar on a smart base with a touchscreen. It weighs, chops, stirs, boils and cooks, and the screen tells you what to drop in next. Scroll to watch it brew a pot of milky ginger chai from above.

    2. You, 1 min

      Water, tea, sugar. In.

      +−What goes in

      140 ml water, 2½ tsp tea leaves and 3 tsp sugar. Any everyday CTC tea works: Red Label, Wagh Bakri, Taj Mahal, Tata Premium, Tata Agni, Kanan Devan, 3 Roses and the rest all take the same 2½ tsp. Off sugar? Use 1½ stevia pellets instead. Lid on, crown off.

    3. Line drawing: crown lifted off the lid
      upliance, ~1 min

      Boils the tea leaves

      +−Why first?

      It heats the water up and boils the leaves with a stir, so the tea gets strong and dark before any milk goes in. The clock on the screen only starts once it's boiling; the heating up takes about a minute.

    4. You, 30 s

      Pour in the milk

      +−Which milk?

      250 g of fresh packet milk, toned or full-cream. Tetra-pack milk doesn't brew as well. That's almost twice the water, which is what makes this the milky one.

    5. Line drawing: crown lifted off the lid
      upliance, ~1 min

      Churns the milk in

      +−What's it doing?

      A quick whirl blends the milk into the dark tea, then it heats everything back up. That heating takes about a minute, which is your window to grate the ginger.

    6. You, 1 min

      Grate in ginger, spices

      +−Why last?

      Peel a thumb-tip of ginger (about 3 g) and grate it straight into the jar, then add ½ tsp cardamom powder and ¼ tsp black pepper powder. The spices go in after the milk because they give up more flavour once it's there. This bit is on you.

    7. Line drawing: crown lifted off the lid
      upliance, 3 min

      Boils up, churns down

      3MIN FREEcups out
      +−Won't it boil over?

      No. It brings the chai up to a boil, then whirls it back down, nine times over, like a chaiwala pulling chai between two pans. Each boil it climbs up into the crown opening; that's normal and it won't spill. No standing at the stove waiting to catch it. Three minutes, hands off.

    8. You, 1½ min

      Strain. Pour. Sip.

      +−Finish

      Lift the jar off and pour the chai through a tea strainer into a jug or straight into two cups; the strainer catches the leaves and ginger. Rinse the jar while it's warm, before the milk sets.

    Where the time goes

    You: 4 min
    3 drops · strain
    upliance: 5 min3 free
    boils · churns · brews
    upliance: a steel jar on a smart base with a touchscreen

    You: 4 min. upliance: 5 min.

    Get upliance
    Full recipeIngredients by drop, every step, nutrition+−

    Water, tea leaves and sugar go into the jar and boil; then the milk; then grated ginger, cardamom and a pinch of pepper. upliance boils the chai up and churns it back down in bursts, like a chaiwala pulling chai, so it gets strong and creamy without boiling over. You strain it into two cups. More milk than water, the way home chai should be.

    North Indian, South Indian. Veg beverage. Serves 2. About 9 min start to finish; about 4 min of it is you. Cooked 1,500+ times on upliance.

    Ingredients (2 servings)

    Drop 1boiled into a strong brew

    • Water 140 ml
    • Tea leaves any CTC brand: Red Label, Wagh Bakri, Taj Mahal, Tata Premium, Tata Agni, Kanan Devan, 3 Roses2½ tsp
    • Sugar or 1½ stevia pellets3 tsp

    Drop 2churned in and heated

    • Milk fresh packet milk, toned or full-cream (not tetra-pack)250 g

    Drop 3brewed into the chai

    • Ginger peeled and grated3 g
    • Green cardamom powder ½ tsp
    • Black pepper powdered¼ tsp

    Steps

    1. Drop 1 (you, ~1 min). Put 140 ml water, 2½ tsp tea leaves (any brand) and 3 tsp sugar (or 1½ stevia pellets) into the jar. Lid on, crown off.
    2. upliance, ~1 min. It heats the water and boils the tea leaves with a stir until the brew is strong and dark.
    3. Drop 2 (you, 30 s). Pour in 250 g fresh packet milk, toned or full-cream. Tetra-pack milk doesn't brew as well.
    4. upliance, ~1 min. It whirls the milk into the tea, then heats it all back up.
    5. Drop 3 (you, ~1 min). While it heats, peel about 3 g ginger and grate it straight into the jar, then add ½ tsp green cardamom powder and ¼ tsp black pepper powder. Spices go in after the milk because they release more flavour once it's there.
    6. upliance, ~3 min. It boils the chai up and whirls it back down in short bursts, nine times over. The chai climbs up into the crown opening each time; that's normal and it won't spill.
    7. Serve (you, ~1½ min). Pour the chai through a tea strainer into two cups and serve hot. Makes 2 cups.

    Nutrition per serving

    129 kcal · 16 g carbs · 5 g protein · 5 g fat.

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