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Authentic Kashmiri Noon Chai Recipe

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Authentic Kashmiri Noon Chai is a traditional pink salted tea, brewed with green tea leaves, baking soda, and milk.
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Cook Time 15 minutes
Course Beverages & Drinks
Cuisine Kashmiri
Servings 5 cups of tea

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 250ml

    FOR MAKING NOON CHAI CONCOCTION

    • 1 tbsp noon tea leaves (noon chai ki patti)
    • Pinch of baking soda
    • 2 green cardamoms
    • 6 tbsp + 1/2 cup/ (125ml water)

    FOR MAKING NOON CHAI (1 SERVING)

    • 1 tbsp concoction
    • 3-4 tbsp water
    • Milk as required
    • Salt as per taste

    FOR SERVING NOON CHAI

    • 1 tbsp malai (optional)
    • 1 tbsp crushed walnuts (optional)

    Instructions
     

    MAKING OF NOON CHAI CONCOCTION

    • Take a saucepan, preferably with a handle and put it on lowest heat.
    • Let the pan slightly heat up. This time pan is empty.
    • Add noon chai ki patti and baking soda.
    • Continuously stir the pan by holding its handle until patti & soda are well roasted. It will hardly take a minute.
    • Now add 2 tbsp of water.
    • Tea leaves will be seen releasing the colour immediately.
    • By stirring the pan occasionally, allow this water to evaporate completely. You may switch the heat from low to medium as per your wisdom. Only make sure tea leaves shouldn't get burnt.
    • When first batch of water is evaporated, add 2 more tbsp of water.
    • Likewise evaporate this water too.
    • Then add 2 more tbsp of water for the 3rd time.
    • Again let this water evaporate while stirring the pan and managing the heat.
    • Lastly add 1/2 cup (125 ml) of water.
    • Also add green cardamoms after crushing. However you may skip adding cardamom this time and can add later at the time of making tea.
    • Let this water boil for 1.5 to 2 minutes during which you will find the tea leaves releasing a beautiful deep wine colour.
    • Take this off the heat. This is the concoction for making noon chai.

    MAKING OF NOON CHAI

    • For better understanding and proper measurement, we are directly showing the serving cup. Once you are expert, you can directly move on to the saucepan for making noon chai.
    • Add 1 tbsp of concoction. No issues if tea leaves are coming alongwith.
    • Then add 3-4 tbsp of water or atleast this much that half of the serving cup is filled.
    • Lastly add milk and here the liquid will turn out to be beautiful pink.
    • Pour this into the saucepan.
    • Add salt as per taste.
    • Just give it a boil for a minute or so.
    • Pour the tea into the serving cup. You may sieve or not, totally a personal choice.
    • If you like, you can add a bit of malai over the top of chai alongwith crushed walnuts. However both the ingredients are optional and you can skip both or either choose any one.
    • Enjoy hot.

    Notes

    • With the concoction in hand, about 5-6 cups of noon chai can be made, depending on the size of serving cup.
    • This amount of concoction can be stored in refrigerator for 2-3 days. Older the concoction, poorer the taste and colour of the noon chai. We prefer to finish the concoction by next day.
    • Traditionally, this tea is prepared with salt only, making it a salted tea. However, adding sugar doesn’t ruin its taste and the tea will still be enjoyable. That said, sweetening the tea deviates from its authentic preparation method, so it's up to you if you're willing to forgo its traditional essence.
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