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Happy Spring! Let’s make dairy-free lavender chai

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I’m a huge fan of honey, lavender, and chai. Now that I live in an area where Spring is actually a season, I’m able to experience gorgeous blossoming flowers in my neighborhood, plus take advantage of some local herbs growing nearby. Here’s a lovely dairy-free lavender-flavored chai latte drink made with lavender buds picked by my local church!

honey and lavender chai tea
Foraged lavender courtesy of the church near me.

Springtime Yumminess

For this refreshing and yummy lavender chai drink, I adapted a recipe from Vegan Richa‘s book, for Indian Spiced Milk Tea and made it my own with a honey and lavender twist. For even better results, see if you can find some lavender honey near you! The type of flower pollinated by bees affects the taste of the honey, so lavender honey is made with bees that have pollinated lavender!

By the way, do you know what works well with this plant-based chai latte?

How about some Earl Grey and Blueberry Muffins? Let’s make a Lavender & Earl Grey brunch together!

Make it Vegan

This drink is dairy-free, but it can always be easily made vegan. Just substitute the honey with some maple syrup, agave sweetener, or simple syrup.

Enjoy your vegan plant-based drink!

lavender chai tea

Plant-Based Lavender Chai Latte

This delicious dairy-free lavender chai latte is flavored with fresh lavender & honey. Delicious hot or iced, it's the perfect drink for spring.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 16 minutes
Course Breakfast, brunch, Drinks
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 1½ cups water
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 2 Chai tea ¼ bags
  • 2 cups almond or oat milk
  • 1 teaspoon Chai Masala mix see notes
  • 1 teaspoon lavender buds
  • 1 teaspoon honey

Instructions
 

  • Heat the water over medium heat and add sugar, tea bags, chai masala mix. Let it boil for 8 minutes.
  • Once it comes to a rolling boil, add in the almond milk and lavender buds. Let it boil again for another 5-6 minutes. Taste the tea, and then add honey if desired.
  • Strain the tea into a cup and serve, or pour over ice for an iced chai.

Notes

Chai Masala is a mix of spices to add to your tea for that traditional chai flavor you’ll find at restaurants. To make it, you grind up the spices in a grinder and store them in an air-tight container. There are variations of it, but here is my quick and easy mix, adapted from Vegan Richa’s book.
  • 1/4 cup green cardamom pods
  • 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon or 3 cinnamon sticks
  • 2 tablespoons ground cloves
  • 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
Cardamom pods can be found be at your local health & organic store, or any Indian market near you. If you can’t get ahold of it or any other ingredients, have no fear, your drink will still be delicious!
Keyword almond milk, chai, chai latte, dairy-free, honey, lavender, non-dairy

What do you think? I find this dairy-free lavender chai latte to be absolutely delicious! You can easily remix this recipe to your liking. Add fresh ginger, or increase the amount of sugar or honey. You can also make it sugar-free, or sub maple syrup with honey to make it vegan.

dairy free lavender chai for pinterest

If you like this drink, be sure to check out my many other recipes for smoothies & Indian-inspired drinks, like Strawberry Lassi or this Peach Mango smoothie.

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