Pakistani

Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)

Name: Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 3 tsp black tea leaves; 2 cups milk; 3 green cardamom pods; 3 tsp sugar; 1 cup water

Zubaida Parveen @nani_ki_handi

Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea) is Pakistani home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 tsp black tea leaves
2 cups milk
3 green cardamom pods
3 tsp sugar
1 cup water

How to cook it

Put the water in a small pan with the crushed cardamom pods and bring it to a boil.
Add the tea leaves and boil hard for 2 minutes so the water turns deep red-brown.
Pour in the milk and bring the whole thing back to a boil, watching it so it does not climb over the side.
Lower the flame and let it simmer 4 minutes, lifting a ladleful and pouring it back from a height two or three times. That aeration is what makes the difference between tea and chai.
Add the sugar, stir, and strain into cups.
Make a child's cup weaker and milkier from the same pan, and serve with paratha or a rusk.

Watch how to cook Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Pakistani breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Aloo Anday (Potato and Egg Bhujia)
  
  22 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 110 kcal
Protein: 5 g
Carbs: 12 g
Fat: 5 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 70 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Doodh Patti Chai (Milk Tea) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.