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Shanti Chai Pumpkin Pie Recipe
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Substitute Pumpkin Spice with Chai Spice for an Extra Special Pumpkin Pie! This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving and while we had a mellow day at home with the twins, we decided to cook up a chicken, with potatoes, squash and rosemary, thyme, parsley and sage from the garden. And of course, pumpkin pie! This pie is incredibly simple to make, richly spiced using a blend of our Original Chai Blend spices (with some added allspice), and has a lovely texture and an indulgent old school graham cracker crust. We topped ours with sweetened coconut cream. To Make a Shanti...
7 Health Benefits of Chai
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Need another reason to drink a nice cup of chai? Or how about seven! Traditional masala chai is made up of a blend of spices (like cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, peppercorns, cloves, fennel) combined with a black tea, often an Assam tea. Each of the spices used in chai has its own list of health benefits, especially the well known and much loved spice heavy hitters like ginger and turmeric. So, we could spend an entire blog post on any one of them - and one day, we will! - but for this post, we wanted to focus on the health...
Etymology 101: The Meaning of the Word Chai
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Did you know that the word chai is the word for tea in Hindi? And going back even further, the word chai originally came from the Chinese word for tea, cha or chá. In North America, we often see menus and shops offering "chai tea" and "chai tea lattes" but technically this is like saying "tea tea" and "tea tea lattes" respectively. It can be a bit confusing! So let's break it all down.
Iced Chai Recipe: Cold Brew Method
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Cold Brew... Cold Brew coffee, cold brew... CHAI?! Yep. It's a thing. A delicious, delightful thing. Cold Brewing is a slow process that involves basically soaking your ingredients (in this case, chai spices, black tea and sugar) in cold filtered water ideally overnight, or for approximately 12 hours. The benefits of making cold brewed iced chai are that a) it is a simple process b) you kind of forget about it and then open your refrigerator to it the next day c) it tastes great and makes a delicious beverage and d) you can easily store extra chai for a...
Learn How to Ice Your Favourite Chai, Blend or Tea with this Iced Tea Guide
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It's Iced Tea time, that's for sure. Learn how to ice your favoruite tea with this downloadable Shanti Chai & Co's Iced Tea Guide here. Shanti Chai & Co's Original Chai Blend poured over ice and topped with cream. Learn how to ice chai, black tea, green tea and herbal tea/tisanes with both Quick Steep and Cold Brew Methods in this easy How-To Guide: Please feel free to share this guide with tea loving friends and family with the following link: https://shantichai.com/blogs/news/downloadable-iced-tea-guide-pdf