Chai Latte Recipe — How to Make It at Home (Hot + Iced)
A great chai latte starts with one thing: real spices. The kind that smell like cardamom and cinnamon when you open the jar, not a dusty powder that’s been sitting in a syrup bottle for months. This guide covers everything — a quick 10-minute version for weekdays, a deeper concentrate method for batching, hot and iced formats, and the spice ratios that actually matter. (For the espresso-spiked variation that adds a shot of coffee to this same base — the popular U.S. specialty-café drink known as a “dirty chai” — see our What Is a Dirty Chai? guide. It covers the etymology of “dirty,” the 1990s-2000s Pacific Northwest origin story, the caffeine and calorie math, and exactly how a dirty chai differs from this regular chai latte recipe.) ...