Masala chai
Spices simmered in water, milk added after, infused fat whisked in off the heat. Nothing in it ever boils once the dose is in.
Set your infusion strength
Tell the site how strong your butter or oil is and every recipe rewrites its ingredient amounts to match.
Ingredients
2 tbsp infused coconut oil
Set your infusion strength above and this splits into infused and plain coconut oil to hit whatever dose you want.
- 1 cupwater
- 1 cupwhole or oat milk
- 2 tsploose black tea — assam or a strong breakfast blend
- 4green cardamom pods — crushed
- 1cinnamon stick
- 4whole cloves
- 1 inchfresh ginger — sliced
- 2 tspsugar or maple syrup — or to taste
Method
- 01
Simmer the water with the cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and ginger for five minutes. Bruising the spices first gets far more out of them than leaving them whole.
5 min
- 02
Add the milk and the sweetener and bring it back to just below a simmer. Do not let it boil over.
- 03
Take the pan off the heat, add the tea, cover, and steep for four minutes. Longer than that and it turns bitter.
4 min
- 04
Strain into a jug, then whisk in the infused coconut oil hard for thirty seconds — or blend it. Fat and tea separate on standing, and a separated mug means one person gets most of the dose.
- 05
Pour into two mugs and stir again halfway down.
Built on
Standard masala chai: equal parts water and milk, whole spices simmered in the water first, black tea steeped last.
Every recipe here names the conventional ratio underneath it. The cannabis part is a fat substitution, not new chemistry — so if the base is sound and the substitution is sound, the recipe is sound.
As written
5 mg / mug
1 mg5 mg25 mg
Set your infusion strength to move the dose.
Before you eat it
- These are estimates, not lab results. Treat the low end as the honest number and the high end as the thing to plan around.
- Start with one serving and wait two hours. Edibles take 30 to 120 minutes to come on, and the most common mistake is redosing before the first one lands.
- Test a small piece first. Potency is rarely even across a batch, especially if the infusion was not mixed thoroughly.
- Label anything you store with the date and the estimated dose, and keep it away from children, pets and anyone who did not ask for it.
- If you overdo it: you are not in danger, but it will be unpleasant. Find somewhere quiet, drink water, and wait it out. Do not drive.
More drink
Golden milk
Warm spiced milk with turmeric and black pepper. Made in one pan in five minutes, with nothing hot enough to hurt the infusion.
2 mugs
Spiced hot chocolate
Proper hot chocolate made with real chocolate rather than powder, which gives the fat somewhere to hide and keeps the dose suspended.
2 mugs
Mulled apple cider
Spiced cider warmed on the stove, with the infusion whisked in off the heat. A pot that serves a group, portioned into mugs rather than ladled freely.
6 mugs