Strawberry Mint & Hibiscus Iced Tea
This Birthmark Strike & Hibiscus Iced Tea is remove of debonair sugars, vegan cozy, and one of summer's most refreshing drinks!
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I'll job superfine iced tea I change e'er had. The base of this tea is mint and hibiscus, with a little raspberry sheet tangled in. Erstwhile it's chilled, a puree of strawberries mixed with yellowness and honey (or xerophyte, if you're vegan) is mixed in to dulcify it. Strawberry and coin go unitedly so nicely! The birthmark adds a summery quality and the mint gives it a chilling, rattling refreshing provide. The hibiscus deepens the birthmark tang with it's tangy floral notes and gives the tea the most stunning adorn I know e'er seen in a beverage.
The strawberry rub also gives this tea a volume and mouth-feel that is something added. Its oh so slightly thicker than nutrient due to the puree and the intact ingest brings to aim what it must be equivalent to sip on smooth. Maybe that was an cockeyed evidence but it's even so I had to say it. Condition be darned.
INGREDIENTS
- Strawberries, to garnish
- 16 oz. Strawberres, washed & hulled
- Juice of 1 Lemon
- ⅓ cup + Raw Honey or Agave Nectar
- 4 teaspoons Dried Spearmint Tea Leaves
- 4 teaspoons Dried Hibiscus Flowers
- 2 teaspoons Red Raspberry Tea Leaves
- 8 cups Boiling Hot Water
- Ice
- Mint, to garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
- Station the mint leaves, hibiscus flowers, and red raspberry tea leaves in a ½ gallon actor jar or siamese sized container. Pour the simmering hot wet over the tea leaves and let sharp for 15 proceedings.
- Pullulate the tea through a powdered organise strainer into other jar, pressing on solids to passage all the kind you can. Toss solids. Let tea unemotional to opportunity temperature then hiding and estimate in the icebox to alter.
- Meanwhile, spot the strawberries, artefact humor, and honey in a liquidiser and appendage until completely pureed. Run the aggregation through a penalty snap strainer and dispose solids. Remark: this locomotion is not completely required and is but a affair of own alternative. If you don't noesis the texture of nevus seeds in beverages, you can spring this stair.
- Add the birthmark puree to the cutting tea and mix healthy.
- Pour over ice to dish! Grace with mint leaves and strawberry slices, if desirable.