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Spiced Vanilla Chai Oatmeal

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By Kristen Chidsey

5 from 9 votes

Updated Feb 11, 2020

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This Spiced Vanilla Chai Oatmeal tastes like your favorite chai latte! Flavored with a blend of black tea, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and vanilla this creamy bowl of wholesome oatmeal is a delicious, flavorful way to start your day!

While I typically start my morning with a homemade latte, when I am craving a cup of tea, Chai Tea is my go-to. A warm Chai Latte with a Baked Cinnamon Donut, Cranberry Orange Muffin Recipe, or a slice of Cream Cheese Danish is a bit of heaven.

But for day in and day out, I opt to combine my favorite indulgent great, with a bowl of healthy oatmeal. Perfectly sweet, a tiny bit spicy, and filled with warmth from the blend of spices, this oatmeal takes on the flavor of a chai latte, yet makes a much heartier and filling breakfast than a latte alone!

Not to mention oatmeal is full of fiber, nutrients, and whole grains, so this Chai Oatmeal will keep you satisfied for hours.

Notes on Ingredients and Substitutions

• Oats: Use rolled oats for this recipe, rot steel-cut oats. And be sure to use certified gluten-free oats if needed.
• Chai Seasoning: I use a blend of cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, and cloves to create a homemade Chai spice blend. If you like, you can add a dash of black pepper to add a bit of spice to your chai oatmeal.
• Black Tea: Be sure to use decaffeinated black tea if serving to your children for breakfast, or keep the caffeine to get your morning fix all from your bowl of oatmeal.
• Milk: You can use any milk you like in this Chai Oatmeal recipe. I love to use unsweetened vanilla almond milk for the extra vanilla flavoring, but coconut milk, cow's milk, or soy milk all work well.
• Sweetener: I find that this oatmeal needs no added sugar, but you can sweeten the Chai oatmeal with maple syrup, honey, or granulated sugar as desired.

How To Prepare Chai Oatmeal

• In a medium saucepan, bring water, milk, chai seasoning, and tea bags to a boil over medium-high heat. Be sure to whisk often to prevent the milk from scalding.
• Once the mixture comes to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 2-3 minutes to allow the tea to steep into the milk. Continue to whisk this often!
• After a couple of minutes, remove the tea bags and stir in the oats.
• Simmer for 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the oatmeal has thickened.
• Turn off the heat stir in the vanilla extract and sweeten as desired.
• Serve warm.

Chai Seasoning

If you love Chai, be sure to double or triple the blend of spices to create a larger batch of homemade chai seasoning. Store the mixture in an airtight container for up to 3 months in the pantry.

Then you can use this mixture to flavor oatmeal or make Homemade Chai Lattes. To make a Chai Lattes, add 1 teaspoon of the homemade chai seasoning to 1 cup of freshly brewed black tea along with ½ cup of warm, frothed milk.

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• Slow Cooker Maple Cinnamon Oatmeal
• Chocolate Oatmeal
• Overnight Oats
• Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal
• Sweet Potato Oatmeal
• Banana Baked Oatmeal
• Instant Pot Oatmeal

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5 from 9 votes

Spiced Vanilla Chai Oatmeal

By: Kristen Chidsey

Servings: 4

Prep: 5 minutes mins

Cook: 7 minutes mins

Total: 12 minutes mins

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Dive into a creamy bowl of wholesome oatmeal perfectly flavored with a blend of black tea, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and vanilla.

Ingredients 

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For the Spiced Vanilla Chai Oatmeal

• ▢ 2 black tea bags
• ▢ 1 cup water
• ▢ 2 teaspoons chai seasoning
• ▢ 2 cups rolled oats
• ▢ 3 cups milk, of your choice
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Homemade Chai Seasoning

• ▢ 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• ▢ 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon allspice

Instructions 

For the Chai Seasoning

• Mix all the spices together and store them in an airtight container for up to 3 months. 

For the Chai Oatmeal

• In a medium saucepan, bring water, milk, 2 teaspoons of the Chai seasoning, and tea bags to a boil over medium-high heat, whisking every 30 seconds or so to prevent the milk from scalding.
• Once boiling, reduce the heat to medium-low, and let simmer for 2-3 minutes, to let the tea bags continue to steep. Discard the tea bags and stir in oats. Cook until thick, about 5 minutes, stirring often. *If using quick-cooking oats, you will only need to simmer for 1-2 minutes to thicken.
• Remove the oatmeal from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Serve immediately or cool and store in the refrigerator.  

Notes

Milk: Any variety of non-dairy or regular milk will work. 

Chai Seasoning: If you don't want to make chai seasoning to have on hand for future recipes, simply add ¾ teaspoon ground ginger, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon each of nutmeg, cardamon, and allspice, and a pinch of cloves to the oatmeal.

Sweetener: Sweeten the Chai oatmeal with maple syrup, honey, or granulated sugar as desired. I find that it needs no added sugar, but you can adjust each serving as desired. 

To keep this gluten-free, be sure to use gluten-free oats. 

*Nutrition facts are based on using unsweetened almond milk.

Nutrition

Calories: 200kcalCarbohydrates: 31gProtein: 6gFat: 5gSodium: 251mgPotassium: 163mgFiber: 6gCalcium: 262mgIron: 2.2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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