Berry iced tea / Fruit iced tea
The berry iced tea tastes heavenly fruity summer. Enjoy the cool refreshment on hot days on the terrace, in the garden or on the balcony. With this recipe it is very easy to make the fruit iced tea yourself. Even children can drink it.
Servings 750 ml
Ingredients
- 200 g any berries (for me strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries)
- 5 bags of berry or fruit tea**
- 100 ml fruit syrup (e.g. strawberry syrup) or to taste
- 1 tbsp lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 700 ml boiling water
to serve
- fresh berries
- mint leaves
- ice cubes or crushed ice
Instructions
- Pour boiling water over berry or fruit tea bags and let them steep for about 8 minutes (or according to packaging). Then squeeze the tea bags and remove them. Let the fruit tea cool.
- Put berries and lemon juice in a blender and puree.
- Pour the berry mixture through a fine sieve to the cooled fruit tea.
- Add fruit syrup to the berry tea and stir.
- Serve the fruit iced tea with fresh berries, mint leaves and ice cubes or crushed ice.
Notes
- Instead of berry tea in bags, you can take loose fruit tea. For the recipe you then need about 5 teaspoons of it.
- You can adjust the amount of fruit syrup as you like, depending on how sweet you like the iced tea.
- The time for cooling is not included in the preparation time.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the berry iced tea at the top of the post.