This easy recipe for homemade iced chai tea latte concentrate is made in the instant pot. It's a healthy drink that uses spices and tea bags to make the chai concentrate. It's really simple to make from scratch so you can enjoy your favorite iced latte at home.
My favorite way to have chai tea is iced. This homemade chai concentrate makes it so easy for me to make my own iced chai lattes at home whenever I want. This concentrate will also work hot too.
If you are looking for more delicious drinks you might also enjoy my Dunkin Copycat Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, this Lemon Lime Homemade Sports Drink, my Easy Instant Pot Apple Cider, this Homemade Blueberry Lemonade or my Dunkin Copycat Brown Sugar Cream Cold Brew recipes.
Ingredients
- Water
- Fresh Ginger
- Cinnamon Sticks
- Whole Cloves
- Whole Peppercorns
- Star Anise
- Ground Cardamom
- Ground Nutmeg
- Brown Sugar
- Honey
- Vanilla Extract
- Black Tea Bags or Decaf Black Tea Bags
- Milk
Instructions
Add water, ginger slices, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, whole peppercorns, star anise, ground cardamom and ground nutmeg to your instant pot. Cook using the manual setting for 3 minutes. Let the steam release naturally.
Carefully strain the mixture into a jar or pitcher using a fine mesh strainer. While the mixture is still hot add the brown sugar, honey and vanilla. Stir to combine.
Add the tea bags and let steep for 5 minutes. (Any longer may make the tea flavor bitter). Remove the tea bags and let the chai tea latte concentrate cool to room temperature.
Store in a sealed bottle or jar for up to 10 days in the refrigerator.
To make an iced chai latte use 1 cup of milk with 1 cup of chai tea concentrate over ice.
To make a hot chai latte heat 1 cup of milk in the microwave and add 1 cup of chai tea concentrate.
Variations
- Pumpkin Cold Cream - top with my pumpkin cold cream recipe
- Brown Sugar Cold Cream - top with my brown sugar cold cream recipe
- Decaf - use decaf black tea bags
Supplies
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Storage
Store the iced chai tea latte concentrate in a sealed jar or bottle for up to 10 days in the refrigerator.
Iced Chai Tea Latte Concentrate
- Total Time: 8 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
This easy recipe for homemade iced chai tea latte concentrate is made in the instant pot. It's a healthy drink that uses spices and tea bags to make the chai concentrate. It's really simple to make from scratch so you can enjoy your favorite iced latte at home.
Ingredients
6 cups Water
1-inch chunk Fresh Ginger, peeled and chopped into think rounds
3 Cinnamon Sticks
2 teaspoon Whole Cloves
2 teaspoon Whole Peppercorns
3 Star Anise
½ teaspoon Ground Cardamom
½ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
½ cup Brown Sugar
2 tablespoon Honey
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
8 Black Tea Bags or Decaf Black Tea Bags
Milk, for making latte
Instructions
Add water, ginger slices, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, whole peppercorns, star anise, ground cardamom and ground nutmeg to your instant pot. Cook using the manual setting for 3 minutes. Let the steam release naturally.
Carefully strain the mixture with a fine mesh strainer into a bottle, jar or pitcher. While the mixture is still hot add the brown sugar, honey and vanilla. Stir to combine.
Add the tea bags and let steep for 5 minutes. (Any longer may make the tea flavor bitter). Remove the tea bags and let the chai tea latte concentrate cool to room temperature.
Store in a sealed bottle or jar for up to 10 days in the refrigerator.
To make an iced chai latte use 1 cup of milk with 1 cup of chai tea concentrate over ice.
To make a hot chai latte heat 1 cup of milk in the microwave and add 1 cup of chai tea concentrate.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 minutes
- Category: Drinks
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: Gluten Free
Keywords: homemade, with tea bags, easy, healthy, instant pot, from scratch, drink, chai concentrate, iced, cold
FAQ
An iced chai tea latte is milk and chai tea concentrate over ice. You add ice to your cup, pour 1 cup milk and then 1 cup chai concentrate over top. You can serve with cold cream on top if you want.
Chai tea is typically heat milk with a chai tea bag. While a chai latte uses cold milk and a chai tea concentrate. Chai tea isn't sweet unless you add a sweetener and chai lattes are usually sweet because there is a sweetener in the concentrate.
No. An iced chai latte does not have any coffee in it. You can choose to use regular or decaffeinated tea bags for your chai concentrate. You can order or make a dirty chai latte that has a shot of espresso in it.
franz says
Did you know that "chai" means tea?
Iced tea tea latte concentrate.
Maybe educate yourself a tiny bit before culturally appropriating stuff from other cultures.
smallfarmbiglife says
Hi Franz. I did know that chai means tea and wrestled with the name of this blog post. I wasn't sure if everyone would know what chai means though, so ultimately I chose to put the word "tea" in the title. I thought going into the meaning of chai would actually be culturally appropriating so I didn't since this is a very Americanized version of a chai recipe. There's also the google algorithm that I have to serve to get posts seen at all. I wasn't sure if google would automatically categorize chai as tea either. Ultimately, I put a lot of thought into whether or not the word "tea" should go into this posts title knowing that likely someone wouldn't like it and I could get a comment exactly like this.