Walnut Free Chai Spice Iced Tea
Warm spices meet a cool glass in this aromatic iced tea that tastes like a café drink you made entirely from scratch. Black tea gets simmered with cinnamon, fresh ginger, cardamom, cloves, and black peppercorns before being sweetened with maple syrup — no syrups from a bottle, no mystery additives. The result is deeply fragrant, lightly spiced, and just sweet enough to feel like a treat without being cloying. Because every ingredient here is a whole spice, a tea bag, or a natural sweetener, there's nothing to second-guess when it comes to hidden nut-based fillers or cross-contaminated flavorings. Straining the brew through a fine-mesh sieve gives you a beautifully clear, jewel-toned tea that looks as impressive as it tastes. Pour it over a tall glass of ice and you've got something that beats any drive-through chai by a mile.
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4 servings
- 3 cups water
- 3 black tea bags
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp fresh ginger, thinly sliced
- 6 green cardamom pods, lightly crushed
- 4 whole cloves
- ¼ tsp black peppercorns
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
For serving
- 1 cup ice cubes, for serving
Instructions
- 1
Combine the water, cinnamon stick, sliced ginger, crushed cardamom pods, whole cloves, and black peppercorns in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 5 minutes, until the liquid is fragrant and lightly amber.
- 2
Remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the tea bags and steep for 4 minutes, then remove and discard the tea bags.
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