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Thursday 6 April 2017

Herbal Iced Tea Recipe | How to Make Herbal Iced Tea from Scratch | Summer Cool Drinks Ideas



Herbal Ice Tea is a thrist-quenching summer drink. With lemongrass, ginger and mint, this herbal ice tea is full of flavours. Find my Herbal Ice Tea Recipe on www.jyotibabel.com
Herbal Iced Tea #Recipe

Herbal Iced Tea is a thrist-quenching summer drink. With lemongrass, ginger and mint, this herbal iced tea is full of flavours. I have used sugar to sweeten it, but you can use honey or any other sugar free sweetness as well.

I have never been an iced tea person. I do order it some times at food joints, but it has never been one of my go-to cool drinks. But, after trying this recipe I am a convert. I wouldn't mind saying that this herbal iced tea has become one of my latest favorite chilled drinks to beat the heat this summer. 

Long ago, I had tried a fruit punch recipe that used tea decoction and it turned to be a super flop. Since, then I was wary of trying any drink recipe with tea decoction in it. But, when I chanced upon a herbal iced tea recipe in one of the cookbooks I own ( did I tell you I am a hoarder of cookbooks?) I decided to give it a try.

The recipe involved making a herbal decoction first - a combination of lemongrass, ginger and mint. The recipe did interest me; but I had an even better reason to try it. Sometimes back I had planted lemongrass and mint in my terrace garden and I was delighted at the idea of using my garden produce.


Herbal Ice Tea is a thrist-quenching summer drink. With lemongrass, ginger and mint, this herbal ice tea is full of flavours. Find my Herbal Ice Tea Recipe on www.jyotibabel.com

The best thing about this recipe is that you can prepare the herbal decoction in bulk and freeze them in ice trays and use them when needed. You can play around with the ratio of the herbs, depending on which herb flavor you want to be prominent.

Here is how you can prepare the herbal decoction for iced tea:

1/2 cup ginger, washed, peeled and grated.
1/2 cup lemongrass leaves, washed and chopped
1/4 cup mint leaves
1" cinnamon stick

Process:

1. Add all the listed ingredients in a saucepan and add 500 ml water. Bring it to a boil and then simmer it on medium heat for 15 to 20 mins.

2. Turn off the heat and cover the saucepan. Let it cool completely before straining. Strain and set aside the herb extract.

3. You can add another cup of water to the residue and simmer it for 15 mins. The decoction prepared the second time will be milder in flavor. You can combine both the extracts thus prepared or you can store them separately. If you do not need to use the entire decoction in one go, freeze them in iced cube tray. When frozen fill them in a zip-lock bag.




Herbal Iced Tea Recipe

Makes 2 tall glasses

Ingredients:

2 teabags 
100 ml boiling water
10-12 herbal ice cubes or about 60 ml of the herbal extract
3 tbsp simple syrup ( sugar syrup prepared by mixing and boiling equal quantity of sugar and water till the sugar is dissolved)
300 ml chilled water
Ice cubes, mint leaves and lemon slices to garnish (optional)

Process:

1. Add the tea bags in boiling water and let it steep for 10 mins. Take the tea bags out and set aside the tea decoction.
2. If you are using herbal ice cubes, add them to the warm tea decoction so that they melt faster. Else add the herbal concoction equally into two glasses. Pour prepared tea decoction. Add simple sugar syrup and top with chilled water. 
3. Add ice cubes, mint leaves and lemon slices as desired. Stir and serve chilled. 


Herbal Ice Tea is a thrist-quenching summer drink. With lemongrass, ginger and mint, this herbal ice tea is full of flavours. Find my Herbal Ice Tea Recipe on www.jyotibabel.com



Notes:

1. Add a squirt of lemon juice for Herbal Lemon Iced Tea.
2. You can add the herbal ice cubes to your regular lemonades for added flavor.

Check out some more summer drink ideas

Sweet Lime Soda,
Ginger Mint Lemonade,
Makhanya Lassi
Blueberry Lemonade 
Strawberry Lemonade

Thank you for stopping by. Cheers!

27 comments:

  1. Lemongrass leaves? Strange though we discard them over here and only use the end white part. Then again, maybe we are behind time, sure, these leaves I can see did aplenty justice to this herbal ice. I would love to sip in.

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    1. When I was living in Ireland, I saw only lemongrass stalks! But, these leaves are just as much flavorful if not more. Try it once to see the results. Cheers!

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  2. Have a huge pot of lemon grass in my garden; your simple but absolutely healthy tea is tempting me to rush to my garden to make this; superb!

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    1. Try it Vanitha. I am very sure you will like it.

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  3. Wish i get this drink rite now, simply irresistible and definitely a fabulous thirsty quencher. Lovely clicks there.

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  4. Perfect drink for this summer, love it...healthy bhi tasty bhi

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  5. So refreshing and cool Herbal iced tea perfect for summers...

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  6. Lovely .. Love that awesome colour and beautiful clicks do full justice to the tea.. Is that lovely colour from Lemon grass ?

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    1. Sharmila - the colour is from the tea itself. Lemon grass extract doesn't really have a colour.

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  7. Ice tea looks so refreshing and adding the lemongrass leaves takes it to another level...I just want to grab the glass off screen!!

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  8. Ginger being my favourite I welcome this drink with two hands! I bet It must be aromatic and tasted delicious :) can't wait for the summer here.

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  9. Looks refreshing and beautiful. Loved your ingredients and easy method. Love to try this soon!

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  10. That is such a refreshing ice tea. Love your clicks, almost makes me want to reach into the screen to pick up the glass :-)

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  11. Beautiful pictures. Now I have another drink to try. Sounds interesting 😋

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  12. Wow... Even I used to discard the leaves and use only the stem part. Thanks for sharing. Will try this one.

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  13. Bookmarking. Will love to try this out. Best drink for summer

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  14. What herbal extract did you use? This herbal tea looks so inviting!! Perfect for approaching summers.

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  15. I too hoard a lot of books and half my stack is cookbooks! I am not a tea person but sometimes I like to experiment with iced tea varieties. I have dried lemon grass with me.The fresh ones are not available here. Am wondering if it would be possible to use that to make this tea coz the tea looks so refreshing and cool, something we need to beat this heat!

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    1. Dried lemon grass should also give the flavour to the drink. But, I haven't tried it. If you do try, let me know how it turned out for you. Thanks

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  16. Such an awesome thrist-quenching summer drink.
    Love it :)

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  17. Such a refreshing herbal iced tea. I love the iced tea in summers but never tried with herbal tea. The lemon grass leaves much more flavorful.

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  18. Refreshing Iced Tea.. Sure the herbal mix smells great.. and I love the idea of adding the Herbal ice cubes in lemonade..

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  19. Love it as it has lemon grass. Trying to grow my batch of lemon grass. Will save up the recipe for the quick use.

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  20. Hoarder of cookbooks .. hmm sounds just like me. Honestly I made more dishes from the cookbooks prior to blogging but haven't really done much in recent times and your post reminds me that I should really do something about it. Iced teas are my fav and I prefer homemade ones just like you. You can control the sugar too that way. Great share, gorgeous colour and amazing pics.

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  21. I love these iced tea in summer, they are such a relief. This one looks good, thanks for sharing.

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  22. I can have this all day.. gorgeous color and looks spectacular

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  23. Beautiful picture and it is so inviting. Bookmarking it for future use.

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