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closeup of glass jar filled with chia pudding. Topped with bananas and cinnamon. Cinnamon stick sticking out of pudding for decoration.

Overnight Vanilla Chai Chia Pudding

This Vanilla Chai Chia Pudding is a great recipe for a healthy breakfast with a small dose of caffeine to keep you going all day. It also makes a great midday snack to keep your energy levels going. Meal prep this overnight for an easy breakfast all week long.

Course Breakfast
Keyword chia pudding, chai
Prep Time 8 hours 15 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

Chai Mix

  • 1 cup water or milk milk will be creamier, but not as strong in flavor
  • 2 bags black tea
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • dash clove
  • dash ginger powder
  • dash ground pepper

Pudding

  • 3/4 cup chia seeds
  • 3 cups coconut milk
  • 3 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste optional, but worth it
  • 1/4 cup - 1/2 cup sweetener (maple syrup is my preference, but you can use honey, brown rice syrup, etc.)

Toppings

Instructions

Prepare chai tea

  1. Boil 1 cups of water or milk (milk is traditional chai) and steep 2 black tea bag and all of the spices.

  2. Strain the tea in cheesecloth or a fine mesh strainer

Prepare Pudding

  1. Mix the tea and the remaining pudding ingredients together in a large bowl.

  2. Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.

  3. Divide mixture into single serving containers or one large container (I use jam jars).

  4. Refrigerate overnight.

  5. Top with coconut flakes, banana, and other toppings once you are ready to eat.

  6. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

If you use water to make the black tea will make a stronger tea flavor in the chai

Using milk to make the black tea will be a more subtle creamy flavor, however, this will be slightly higher in calories.

I recommend avoiding soy milk for this recipe for the best flavor.