Description
This homemade peach iced tea is the perfect refreshing drink for a hot day. Fruity and naturally sweetened with honey, make a batch of it on a summer’s day.
The default recipe makes one glass of tea.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 peach, destoned and roughly chopped
- 1 black tea bag (see note 1)
- 1 tsp honey (see note 2,3)
Instructions
- Start by brewing a tea bag in boiling water in your favourite mug. Leave to steep for 3-5 minutes depending on how strong you like it. Leave a little room at the top of the mug to add the peach syrup.
- Add the peach, honey and a tbsp of water to a blender or food processor. Blitz until you have an even consistency.
- Remove the teabag from the mug and add the peach syrup. It will look bitty and a little unappetising – don’t worry about that as we’ll deal with it later!
- Leave the tea to cool at room temperature (see note 4). This should take around 30-40 minutes. See note 2.
- Strain the tea through a fine-mesh strainer and into a jug (see note 5). Add ice and drink straight away or place in the fridge for up to 1 day. (see note 6)
Notes
- You can switch things up a little by using earl grey tea bags. Or if you’re a fan of seriously strong tea then seek out some extra strength bags.
- You can omit the honey if you want a less sweet drink.
- You can substitute the honey with simple syrup (1 part sugar dissolved in 1 part water – add the syrup to the tea until you have the sweetness you want). You can also make this with powdered sweetener if you want to reduce the number of calories.
- Don’t be tempted to put the hot mugs straight into the fridge as this can raise the temperature of the fridge and other items in the fridge to an unsafe level.
- Make sure to use a really fine mesh strainer to get a really smooth texture.
- It is not advised to keep iced tea for more than 8 hours by the CDC (US) because of bacteria that can be found on leaves. However, prepared properly you should be able to keep this for a day without any issues.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Drink
- Method: Kettle
- Cuisine: British
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 39
- Fat: 0.2g
- Carbohydrates: 10g
- Protein: 0.4g
Keywords: iced tea, drink, beverage, peach, fruity, summer, easy, honey