Steenbergs Organic Gingerbread Chai

Steenbergs organic Gingerbread Chai loose leaf tea is Axel Steenberg’s homage to classic street chai teas that you get all across India. In Britain, we have a love affair with Indian food and travel to India. One of the things that travellers to India love recreating is traditional masala chai tea – the everyday sweet, milky spiced tea of India.

Organic Gingerbread Chai Tea is warming and the spices seem to lift the strong tea. We blend the organic spices to Axel Steenberg’s unique recipe in Steenbergs spice and tea factory. We chop the organic spices to a tea bag cut, then blend these together into a glorious organic Pekoe tea from the Blue Mountains in Southern India. The mixed Steenbergs organic Gingerbread Chai Tea is left to infuse for several weeks before Steenbergs packs it down.

Tea brewing: Boil freshly drawn water, then pour on the tea leaves. For a mug: Put 1 teaspoon of Gingerbread Chai per cup and steep for about 5 minutes. For a pot: Put 1 teaspoon of Gingerbread Chai per cup plus 1 teaspoon for the pot; steep for about 5 minutes. Add a little milk and sugar if you wish. Chai making: In a saucepan, bring 125 ml (0.5 cup) water, 2 teaspoons sugar and 2 teaspoons of Gingerbread Chai to a boil; add 125 ml milk and simmer for 5 minutes, strain and pour into a mug and enjoy.

Axel’s tasting notes: Steenbergs organic Gingerbread Chai is a smooth, brisk black tea with warming spices. It pretty much sums up Steenbergs in a blend – spices, tea and organic, then made in the North, made in Yorkshire.