Save yourself a trip to the coffee shop and make your own hot lattes, iced drinks and frappuccionos at home with this easy to make Chai Concentrate! Made with a combination of whole spices, black tea and sweetener of your choice – simply simmer, steep, strain and enjoy! | Gluten Free + Low FODMAP + Vegan & Paleo options

It might look involved at first glance, but I promise this chai tea concentrate is super easy to make and worth the effort! The process breaks down into a few main stages:

• dissolve sugar in water
• add whole spices and simmer
• steep tea bags
• strain
• bottle and enjoy!

Altogether this can be done and ready to use in about 30 minutes – longer if you’re looking for a frozen or ice beverage.

DIY Chai Concentrate FAQ’s

What type of sweetener should I use?

• Most homemade chai concentrate recipes use standard white granulated sugar, but you can play around with what you use.
• I used coconut sugar which adds a nice caramel-like flavour. Brown sugar would also work. Keep in mind that dark brown sugar is sweeter than light brown sugar.
• You can use honey or maple syrup (don’t use honey if you need this to be low fodmap or vegan). Honey and maple syrup are both much sweeter than regular caster sugars so only use half the amount of white sugar. In this case that would be about 5 tablespoons honey/maple.
• If you want to make keto/low GI chai concentrate: It’s very difficult to find good low carb sweeteners where I live so I can’t speak to many keto sweeteners specifically. That being said I do think you would be able to use a low sugar sweetener here, but you will need to adjust the amounts depending on what you’re using. For example – liquid stevia and monk sugar usually used less than the full amount of sugar called for in recipes because they are sweeter. You can usually find recommendations for how to use your preferred sweetener on the packaging that it comes in.

What type of tea bags should I use?

• Chai Tea Concentrate is usually made with black tea. Black teas come in all sorts of varieties so what you choose is totally up to you! I recommend using an Indian black tea or English Breakfast Tea. Lipton black tea is also a great, easy to find option.

Can I use ground spices?

• I don’t recommend using ground spices to make this. Whole spices have oils that release as they simmer that ground spices won’t have.
• If you’re going to go through the effort of simmering, straining and making a concentrate you want to make sure that you’re ingredients are flavourful and potent.

How long does this chai concentrate last?

• Keep your concentrate bottled up in the fridge for one week.
• Tip: To make it last longer, freeze in ice cube trays and use in frappuccinos or iced drinks for a more potentness chai flavour.

How do I use this?

• You can use this to make hot and cold lattes and frappuccinos. As a general rule of thumb you need equal parts concentrate to milk. So if you’re making a latte with one cup milk you’ll need one cup concentrate.

More chai recipes you might enjoy:

• Chai Tea Latte – Two Ways (this is a much lower chai latte method)
• Chai Spiced Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
• Warm Chai Chia Pudding

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