Tea Recipes!
First off, let me thank DR. J for contributing yesterday! You all had such great comments & I learned a ton from all of you!!!! I was doing the teeth stuff all day (UGH!) so I was not able to respond to each & every one of your great comments but THANK YOU for such wonderful words of wisdom!!!! I missed reading your posts too!
On to TEA!!!!
Well, I know you all like your tea out there. I am not a fan although I wish I was BUT I did find 3 wonderful iced tea recipes to "wet your whistle" as the old farts like me say!
I am guessing that you can make them warm too when the weather cools off. You tea drinkers can let me know that. You can always change it up too & if you don't use stevia, use your own form of sweetener!From this article: 3 Super-Healing Summer Iced Teas
Acai Berry Blast
The acai berry in this tea makes it high in antioxidants. Antioxidants help protect your body against the effects of aging (yes, wrinkling!) and disease. The fresh lemon juice gives your body a boost of more than 20 anti-cancer phytonutrients. I’ll be discussing anti-cancer phytonutrients in an upcoming post.
4 acai berry tea bags (I used Stash Acai Berry Herbal Tea for this recipe)
20 drops of liquid stevia (stevia is an herb that is naturally sweet. It is the only sweetener that doesn’t raise blood sugar levels)
4-1/2 to 5 cups water, boiled
Juice of 1 lemon
Ice
In a Pyrex container add the acai berry tea bags (with the paper tags removed). Allow to steep for 5 to 10 minutes. Add the stevia and boiled water. Fill two large glasses (or 4 small ones) with ice and lemon juice.
Serves 2 to 4
Iced Chai
The almond milk is an excellent source of calcium and magnesium. The tea and spices have antibacterial and antioxidant properties. Cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar.
½ cup liquid chai concentrate (I used Tazo Organic Chai Concentrate for this recipe)
1 cup almond milk (From Jody - I am guessing you can use unsweetened vanilla amond breeze. Let me know if I am wrong)
Dash freshly-ground nutmeg
4 medium ice cubes
Dash of cinnamon
Mix all ingredients except the cinnamon in a shaker or glass. Pour into 1 large glass or 2 small glasses to serve and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Serves 1 to 2
Sugar-Free Green Tea Lemonade
There are many great healing properties of green tea, ranging from burning belly fat to warding off cancer. Read 9 Reasons to Drink Green Tea here. Fresh lemon juice contains over 20 anti-cancer phytonutrients (more in an upcoming post).
1/4 teaspoon of matcha (green tea powder)
Juice of 1 lemon
6 drops of liquid stevia (stevia is an herb that is naturally sweet. It is the only sweetener that doesn’t raise blood sugar levels)
2 cups water
Ice
Blend all ingredients except ice in a blender. Add the ice to 1 or 2 glasses. Pour green tea lemonade mixture over ice and serve.
Serves 1 to 2
Do you drink both iced & hot tea? What is your fav tea & fav tea drink. Share with others!!!
I drink iced green tea everday. During the winter i'll opt for hot. It fills me up too much
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I LOVE tea...and ironically, I have just re-entered the tea drinking realm on a more consistent basis. My favorite is a cinnamon-clove blend. but I have many "favs' depending on my mood...My all time favorite is a simple blend...Lipton tea brewed by the sun....
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I'm so boring. I like plain ol' orange pekoe iced tea. No sugar, no lemon. Just tea, water, ice and a tall glass. (If it could located along the Gulf Coast, that would be awesome, but I'll take it even here in suburbia.
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This is something I have changed this year in my attempts to snack less and hydrate more. In the winter I found some great flavored teas that I would drink and just yesterday someone posted on my blog about a chocolate one I plan to try. Right now, I drink several glasses of a Crystal Lite decaf tea each afternoon. Still thinking I should try green tea for the purported health benefits though.
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We like flavored teas as well as green tea.
About the almond milk, I would recommend the plain unsweetened, not the vanilla, because the flavored milk would change the recipe. Also, we're almond milk connoisseur and in order of preference, due mostly to texture, Whole Foods Plain, Silk Unsweetened Almond Milk, Almond Breeze.
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I love tea, but I do not enjoy flavored teas. Hot or cold, just give me the tea. At move a wedge of lemon can swim in my tea. Tea is good stuff, good for you and tasty too.
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The iced chai looks divine.
Good luck with your pearly whites Jody. This has certainly been a long process for you.
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In the South there is sweet tea, and well sweet tea
Do not drink that!! Real tea, especially green is a good thing. Do I do the tea ceremony, no, but I do throw a tea bag of green tea into anything I am making with boiling water, such as rice to get the advantages there also.
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Oh those drinks look so refreshing.
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Oh these are AWESOME!! thanks!! I've always loved tea and especially chai but those ones can be such high cal.. love these ideas!
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