Refreshing Homemade Iced Tea! The Best Way To Get Through The Summer Months ☀️ ☀️ ☀️
Homemade iced tea is the best way to keep your body hydrated and cool during the hotter summer months. Believe me! We live in summer all year round and we drink at least one jar of freshly home brewed iced tea every day! It is refreshing and packed with antioxidants and other beneficial health-promoting phytonutrients.
And it is so much better than drinking just plain water! So don't ruin the iced tea by adding sugar! If you put enough flavors and sweet herbs (such as cinnamon) in your tea you will not need any sugar at all!
Though there are tons of variations, this is the one we just made ;)
Ingredients
2-3 tbsp dried Cambodian jasmine green tea
2 tbsp local organic dried lemongrass and ginger
2 tbsp dried goji berries
1 tsp fresh turmeric and ginger
2 limes, quartered
1.5-2 cups boiling water
Cold water + ice cubes to cool
Directions
- Make a small strong pot of tea (or one to two cups). You can find everything we used to steep the tea in the ingredients list. Allow steeping for 10 minutes.
- In a big jar, add cooled water and ice cubes. Mix with the small pot steeped strong tea and pour in glasses or store in the fridge.
- I don't like icy cold drinks, but you can put extra ice in your glass too!
Keep cool and hydrated!!!
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I really love tea. Especially cold in summer in the heat.
I believe that tea removes toxins and generally has a positive effect on the body.
Thanks for the recipe 😈
Thanks @forever-gala! Iced tea is so good. never liked it until I started to make my own and now I'm hooked!
I like iced tea.
Same here! Thanks for dropping by!
Its so yummy
I just want to drink every sip of this.
Thank you for sharing this with me.
If you are quick @totalgyan, we have some left in the fridge hehehe
Mmmm I love tea! I grow lots and lots of herbs and drink tea every day! Tea CAN be hydrating but any tea with caffeine, black tea or green tea for example is not hydrating because caffeine is a "diuretic" which means the body uses cellular hydration to flush the caffeine. Basically you will pee a lot more.
So if you want to get hydrated an herbal tea without caffeine would work a lot better. its sorta like drinking a coke, just cause its cold doesn't mean its that hydrating.
Best Regards~*~
You are absolutely right! Though true teas contain a lot less theine or caffeine compared to coffee. If we use green or white tea in out teas or iced teas, we always use a little of it in combination with lots of herbs and fruits. But thanks @quinneaker for pointing this out! Wrong use of words of me... so for all correctness, I changed the title to refreshing ;) Have a wonderful day!
Well done and well responded too!
Cheers to being an honest and responsible person!
Great to see u have had so much success here on Steemit. Hope to see you around!
Thanks @quinneaker! I'm sure we will hear more of each other! I love your projects, thoughts, and style. And for me, honesty and admitting you are wrong are so important. How else would you learn and improve? Trial and error... we learn so much by putting our ego aside and listen to eachother.
WOW!
I totally agree and very few can disagree yet VERY few actually LIVE up to that. So good on ya! Hope to see more evolution from you and hope u tune into the constant evolution we here @gardenofeden are embodying every day! Im following and supporting ya!
Bless~*~
That tea is very healthy and delicious.. thanks for sharing @amy-goodrich
My pleasure! It sure is delicious!
Wow, love ice tea especially on hot summer day. Just saw your post now and love them..following you now in order to see more. Keep up the good work
Thanks @charles1! that's so kind of you! I'm glad you like the recipes I make!
Absolutely, Lets stay in touch
I bet that is absolutely delightful! I love tea . The combo of turmeric and ginger is amazing for us
Two of my fav spices and they grow in abundance here woot-woot. Thanks @jeffjagoe for your comment!