Jasmine Milk Tea Latte (No Espresso Required)

Jasmine Milk Tea is one of the two tea-only families on this site (alongside Chai) — there’s no coffee or espresso anywhere in this drink, just steeped jasmine green tea and steamed milk. It’s a genuine tea latte, not a coffee drink with a floral name, which makes it the natural pick if you don’t own (or don’t want) an espresso machine (see Pour-Over Coffee if that’s generally you). Once the concentrate’s made, this takes about 2 minutes to assemble.

Make the Concentrate First (Just Once)

This recipe assumes you already have a jar of Jasmine Milk Tea Concentrate in the fridge — a 20-minute batch that makes about 6 drinks’ worth and keeps for about a week, so you only need to make it roughly once a week, not every morning. If you haven’t made a batch yet, go do that first, then come back here.

Building the Latte

1. Warm 4oz of the jasmine milk tea concentrate in a small saucepan or the microwave until hot, but not boiling.
2. Steam or froth 4oz of milk to about 150°F (see How to Make a Latte at Home if you’re new to the technique).
3. Combine the warm concentrate and steamed milk in your cup and stir.

Café/tea-shop grande jasmine milk tea latte$5.45

Home jasmine milk tea latte (concentrate + milk)~$0.54

Savings per drink$4.91

The concentrate batch itself is a one-time ~$1.43 and makes about 6 drinks — see the full concentrate recipe for the batch method and cost breakdown. Split across servings, it’s already paid for itself by drink #1.

Assumptions: grande-size drink, café/tea-shop average pricing for a jasmine milk tea, dairy milk, jasmine green tea bags and granulated sugar at typical grocery pricing. At 5 jasmine milk tea lattes a week over the site’s standard 48-week year, that’s roughly $1,178/year back in your pocket versus the café version.

Swaps & Notes

• No espresso machine and don’t want one? Then this is a genuinely complete drink for you — there’s no coffee anywhere in this recipe or the Frappé and Cooler built on the same concentrate.
• Iced version: use the Hot/Iced toggle above the ingredients to switch — less milk (3oz cold over ice instead of 4oz steamed), same method as every other iced drink on the site.
• Prefer it dairy-free with no milk step at all? See the Iced Jasmine Milk Tea Cooler, which dilutes the same concentrate with cold water instead of milk.
• Want it less sweet? Make the concentrate with 1/4 cup sugar instead of 1/2 cup — see the concentrate recipe’s Swaps & Notes.

Recipe Card Summary

Jasmine Milk Tea Latte

• 4oz Jasmine Milk Tea Concentrate (made ahead) + 4oz steamed milk
• Prep time: 5 minutes (after the concentrate is made) · Total: 5 minutes
• Cost: ~$0.54/drink vs. $5.45 café equivalent

FAQ

Do I need an espresso machine or any coffee gear for this?

No — this is a tea latte, full stop. Neither this recipe nor the concentrate it’s built on involves coffee or espresso anywhere.

Do I need to make the concentrate every time I want this drink?

No — one batch keeps about a week in the fridge and covers roughly 6 drinks, so this page is just the 2-minute assembly step.

What’s the difference between this and a regular jasmine tea latte?

Nothing structural — “jasmine milk tea” and “jasmine tea latte” describe the same drink (steeped jasmine tea plus milk), we just use the name most people search for. It’s built the same way our Chai Latte is: concentrate plus steamed milk, no coffee involved.