Cozy up with this Sugar Free Spiced Chai Tea this fall. Warm spices likes cardamom and cinnamon combined with chai tea, bourbon and cream make for a delightful cup, and only 1 net carb per serving!
Ingredients:
- Star anise
- Cinnamon sticks
- Cardamom pods
- Whole cloves
- Chai tea bags or, instant chai tea
- Water
- Brown sugar Swerve (or sweetener of choice)
- Pink Himalayan salt
- Bourbon whisky of choice
- Cardamom bitters
- Vanilla extract
- Half and half or heavy whipping cream
- Ground cinnamon for garnish (optional)
Let's Make This Spiced Chai Tea!
Heat a small sauce pan over medium heat. Add your cardamom, star anise, cloves and cinnamon sticks. Toast in the pan until the spices are fragrant, 3-5 minutes. Stir often to prevent burning. After toasted, remove from the pan and set aside.
Add your water to the sauce pan and bring to a rolling boil. Once boiling, remove from heat and steep your spiced chai tea according to the directions on the package. Once steeped for the appropriate amount of time, remove tea bags and discard. Allow tea to simmer on low heat.
Next, add your sweetener and salt. Stir to dissolve.
Add your whiskey, bitters (if using), and toasted spices to the pan. Stir to warm and infuse the tea.
Finally, add in your half and half and vanilla extract. Stir frequently and simmer until tea is warm.
You may want to strain the spices from the spiced chai tea before adding them to the cup, as they get heavy with liquid and may sink to the bottom. If you want to garnish your drinks, add in fresh star anise and cinnamon sticks so that they will float.
Dust with more ground cinnamon if you wish.
Recipe Notes:
- Sweeteners: We advise sweetening this to taste! We also think you should use Brown Sugar Swerve for this keto tea recipe, if you have it! It adds such a nice caramel like flavor to this drink. You can use any sweetener you want tho. We do think Swerve Brown Sugar is slightly less sweet than regular brown sugar, so you might want to adjust accordingly. Since Swerve is sweetened with erythritol, we don't add it to our nutritional facts, as erythritol is not known to spike blood sugar. If you are using other sweeteners, please keep this in mind. We are definitely not experts and everyone is a little different.
- Spices: The whole spices in this recipe really add for a beautiful flavor, as well as look and texture of the drink. We have tried using dried ground spices for this, but found they just sort of coagulated at the bottom of our glasses and got slimy, so the last sip of drink was kind of gross going down.
- Tea: For this spiced chai tea recipe you need a strongly brewed chai tea. For us, that meant using double the amount of bags of tea that a typical cup of tea called for. You could use instant chai, or really any chai concentrate. Just make sure to always follow the brewing instructions so that your tea doesn't become bitter!
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Spiced Chai Tea Recipe [Sugar FREE, Keto]
Ingredients
- warming chai spices of choice for boiling, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cloves & star anise
- 16 ounces water
- 4 whole chai tea bags (or instant chai, needs to be brewed strong)
- ¼ cup Brown sugar Swerve (or to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon pink Himalayan salt
- 4 ounces bourbon whiskey (or to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon cardamom bitters, optional
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ounces half and half (could
- pinch of ground cinnamon (for garnish)
Instructions
- Heat a small sauce pan over medium heat. Add your cardamom, star anise, cloves and cinnamon sticks. Toast in the pan until the spices are fragrant, 3-5 minutes. Stir often to prevent burning. After toasted, remove from the pan and set aside.
- Add your water to the sauce pan and bring to a rolling boil. Once boiling, remove from heat and steep your chai tea according to the directions on the package. Once steeped for the appropriate amount of time, remove tea bags and discard. Allow tea to simmer on low heat.
- Next, add your sweetener and salt. Stir to dissolve. Add your whiskey, bitters (if using), and toasted spices to the pan. Stir to warm and infuse the tea.
- Finally, add in half and half and vanilla extract. Stir frequently and simmer until tea is warm.
- You may want to strain the spices from the tea before adding them to the cup, as they get heavy with liquid and may sink to the bottom. If you want to garnish your drinks, add in fresh star anise and cinnamon sticks so that they will float in your Spiced Chai Tea. Dust with more ground cinnamon if you wish.
Notes
Nutrition
These nutrition facts are provided as a courtesy and are only estimates. We cannot guarantee the accuracy.
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