Strawberries are not only a fresh snack but can be processed into various dishes including refreshing drinks, one of which is strawberry iced tea. There’s nothing wrong with homemade strawberry tea, everything can be adjusted to suit your taste.
This time we will share a recipe for making really delicious strawberry iced tea, with just four ingredients you can serve this refreshing, delicious and nutrient-rich drink.
This strawberry iced tea is our favorite drink and every time we break the fast, we always serve this drink as an appetizer ready to refresh our throats after a day of fasting.
How to Make Iced Tea?
Making iced tea is easy, with only four ingredients you can prepare this delicious drink.
This strawberry iced tea recipe is a juicy one, provides freshness, lemon juice, and uses quality tea. To make this strawberry iced tea you need high quality black tea, but if you want you can replace it with other types of tea such as strawberry green tea and others, it’s a matter of taste!
Strawberry iced tea is a refreshing drink, maybe “refreshing” is the right word to describe this strawberry recipe. If you use fresh strawberries, your iced tea will taste sweet, so reduce the sugar so it doesn’t cause blood sugar to rise. Even with just a little sugar, it already gives a sweet taste.
Always provide fresh strawberries to make a delicious and healthy glass of strawberry tea.
How to Make Strawberry Tea
Making strawberry tea is easy, you can mash it using a blender or boil it using a stove. So, you can make strawberry puree with a food processor. If you want a clear liquid, then you can choose the boiling method.
If you want to make strawberry syrup, you can boil the strawberries by adding sugar. This syrup can be added to as many drinks as you want. Strawberry syrup makes a great addition to ice cream toppings or to make strawberry pound cake.
Ok, if you are interested in making strawberry tea, follow these steps, starting with the supplies of the ingredients needed.
Ingredients
Some of the materials you need are:
- Ripe strawberries
- Black or green tea
- Sugar
- Hot water
Those are the 4 ingredients that need to be prepared to make strawberry tea
For accurate and detailed information, please go to the recipe card.
Instructions
When you first make it, you might think of it as a strawberry drink, this is a combination of the taste of fresh fruit and the taste of strong tea, creating a perfect harmony. Let’s see the steps:
- Clean and peel the strawberries, cut them into small pieces
- Put it in a blender and puree it, or you can also boil it on the stove.
- Choose high quality tea leaves, for example Nilgiri tea, or Ceylon tea (Sri Lankan tea).
- Boil water and add tea leaves, then let sit for 8 minutes or 10 minutes. Take the tea leaves and throw them away, add sugar while they are still hot.
- Pour over the strawberries that have been processed using a fine sieve, and stir everything with the brewed tea or in a blender.
Pro-Tip for making strawberry tea
– Using fresh and organic strawberries will produce a slightly special taste, but if you don’t have them you can substitute them.
– Always use strawberries that are perfectly ripe, because this makes your strawberry tea even tastier.
– To filter it, use a French sieve, with this sieve all the small seeds that come out will be filtered well.
Memories with strawberries
Strawberry is a fragrant fruit and its fragrance penetrates the olfactory niche. Since childhood, we have been lovers of fruit, including strawberries. Moreover, if you pick your own strawberries, it will certainly be very special, not only will you get the taste, but you will also get a wonderful experience when picking this fresh fruit.
Since we were little, we often played in our uncle’s strawberry garden, we invited him to pick them, even during the planting season we often helped him make beds before planting strawberries. There are many interesting things about strawberries that have been embedded in our memories, maybe this is what makes us fall in love with strawberries too much. The wonderful past customs of strawberry gardens have caused us to become big fans of this refreshing fruit.
Best Tea to Use for Brewing Iced Tea
Do you want to make strawberry tea in an iced tea version, this is an opportunity to enjoy a more delicious strawberry taste on hot days.
To make strawberry iced tea, you can use black tea or green tea. However, there are two teas that are very suitable, these are Ceylon tea and Nilgiri tea, they will work quite well for iced tea combined with fruit.
Below we will share with you how to make strawberry iced tea, let’s pay attention to the following recipe card.
Ingredients
- 1 pint strawberries
- 7 cups filtered water
- 6 tablespoons black loose tea 17.5 grams
- ¾ cup pure cane sugar
- ¼ cup lemon juice fresh squeezed is best
Instructions
- Clean and peel the strawberries, cut them into pieces so they are easy to blend
- Put all the strawberries in a blender, add one cup of water, and blend until smooth.
- In a saucepan, bring 6 cups of water to a boil
- Add black tea leaves, and bring to a boil, letting sit for 5 to 8 minutes. Strain using a French strainer or brew in a brewing bag.
- Discard the tea leaves, add sugar to taste, stir until dissolved, add lemon juice, and stir everything, pass through a fine sieve.
- Next, pour into a serving jug, serve over ice and garnish with strawberry slices on the rim of the glass, mint, or a lemon wedge.
* Strawberry Simple Syrup
- As an alternative to making strawberry tea, you can boil strawberries in a pan, this produces clear strawberry water.
- Put one cup of water, sugar, and strawberries in a saucepan and boil until melted, now strain into the brewed tea mixture.
Benefits of Strawberry Tea
When daydreaming, sometimes you ask yourself “is iced tea healthy?” The answer is “yes”, strawberries have health benefits, starting from mixing strawberries, lemon, mint, or using black tea, all of which have great health benefits.
Let’s look at the benefits of strawberry tea from the ingredients it contains:
– Strawberries
It is an important source of vitamin C, manganese, and contains folate (vitamin B9) or potassium.
This sweet and sour fruit is also rich in antioxidants which have enormous health benefits. For example, it is good for the heart and blood flow.
– Lemons
Lemons are a source of vitamin C, fiber, and contain plant compounds that are good for health effects. It is also useful in reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer, preventing anemia, and preventing the formation of kidney stones.
Humans need sufficient vitamin C intake to maintain their immune system.
Recommendation:
– Black Tea
While black tea contains beneficial polyphenols, these are important antioxidants that have been shown to provide major benefits for heart health.
Black tea is rich in the amino acid known as l-theanine. This compound can increase alpha brain waves, thereby providing calm and a relaxed feeling. Black tea not only contains polyphenols, but black tea also contains medium caffeine (half the caffeine in coffee), this mild caffeine effect provides a level of focus and a sense of calm.
– Pure Cane Sugar
Making strawberry iced tea also uses sugar, we use pure cane sugar which is healthier than other refined sugars. To make it healthier, replace processed sugar with raw cane sugar, raw coconut sugar, or pure honey.
