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Home / Fitness / Diet / Mumbai rains: Ditch your usual chai and go for this pepper-flavoured tea!

Mumbai rains: Ditch your usual chai and go for this pepper-flavoured tea!

A dietician gives us the recipe for a healthy chai ki pyali!

By: Aishwarya Iyer   | | Updated: June 25, 2018 5:03 pm
Tags: Cinnamon  Common cold  Digestion  Drinking tea  Ginger  
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Lemongrass tea is good for your health. © Shutterstock

Looking at the downpour in the city, our Monday blues just got a little too stronger! Monsoon is that time of the year when all you want to do is a cup of tea, fried snacks and a chair by the window. Given a chance, we want to sit across the window all day long, but alas! work is worship. It’s pouring in Mumbai since morning and finally, as we get to work, we need the ‘cutting-chai’ to get us focussed. How about making it healthier? Here’s the key! Pavithra N Raj, Dietician Executive, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur gives us a way to make ‘tea’ healthier and yummier during these heavy showers! Also Read - British doctors say common cold is a sign of COVID-19, AIIMS President disagrees

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Ingredients:
Milk: 1 cup
Ginger 1 piece
Cardamom: 5 gm
Cloves /cinnamon: 2 g
Fennel seeds: ½ gm
Pepper powder: ¼ tsp
Tea Powder: 1 tbsp Also Read - Cinnamon for hair: 3 ultimate masks to stimulate scalp and hair growth

Read: How to make tea?

Method of Preparation
Spice powder: Add all spices to blender jar and powder finely.
 Boil the water.
 Add crushed ginger, spice powder and tea powder
 Boil for 2-3 minutes till the flavours are infused well.
 Add milk and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes.
 Filter and serve hot.

Nutrition benefits:
 Cinnamon is loaded with powerful antioxidants, such as polyphenols and helps fight infection.
 Ginger has a very long history of use in various forms of traditional or alternative medicine. It has been used to help digestion, reduce nausea and help fight the flu and common cold.
 Cloves and cardamom have antibacterial properties that help to prevent digestive issues caused by bacterial infections.

Also read: Gorge on methi paneer paratha in these Mumbai rains!

All in all, it’s a healthy-and-delicious option!

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Published : June 25, 2018 12:49 pm | Updated:June 25, 2018 5:03 pm
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