Chai Tea Oatmeal
Last night I made some chai tea. Not real chai tea. I have tea bags. I do plan on making some from scratch soon though. I've been saving recipes for the past few weeks.
So anyway, I use vanilla rice milk and add a chai tea bag. I was so tired last night, I forgot that I was steeping the tea until I was ready to go to sleep. So I just put some plastic wrap over the cup and stuck it in the fridge.
This morning, I was making my oatmeal and getting ready to put in the rice milk. I figured that I'd try the chai tea instead. It's really good! I added some raisins and brown sugar and the oatmeal had some extra spice. Plus the smell was wonderful. Just another idea to add some excitement to your morning oatmeal.
*Updated 1/2/10* This is old news, but this photo is on TasteSpotting too!
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Actually, it sounds more like a Trader Joe's thing.
how are you anali?
Sounds really good! :-)
I love chai tea and never thought of adding it to oatmeal. How clever! Great job! :)
suldog - I should have known better! Of course you have exciting oatmeal! ; )
susan - Thanks! :D
t - You're welcome!
dmarks - It's good stuff. Hopefully I'll have my recipe from scratch soon!
lynn - Welcome and thank you! I love it too!
jj - Welcome! I guess it was quite serendipitious! I'm glad you enjoyed the post!
kayleee - I'm good, but busy! I hope you are feeling better. : )
zen chef - That's true! That's how chocolate-chip cookies were discovered! Now, I want to bake some... Must resist!!
maryann - Hello and welcome! Thanks for the kind words!
cakespy - After I made this I was looking at some blogs and saw that I wasn't the first to add chai to cereal. I forgot the blog, but someone added chai to oat bran I think. I'm sure some company is working on it as we "speak!" ; )
sai - Nice to see you back on the blogs!
librarian lee - Welcome! I wish I could give you some exciting gourmet ingredients, but I can't. The oatmeal is just Stop & Shop brand old-fashioned oats. Any brand of oats will be just fine.
I used Bigelow Spiced Chai teabags. I steeped one teabag in warm vanilla rice milk for about two hours by accident. You could probably just steep it for about 15minutes and then add it to the cooked oatmeal. I hope you try it and let me know how you like it! : )