Basil Infused Jasmine Iced Tea
August 2, 2015If you’ve followed this blog for any amount of time, I love my drinks… and ironically, I’m not talking about alcoholic ones! I love my iced teas, my lemonades, my spritzers, my flavored waters, and so on. It’s so important to stay hydrated and having delicious, flavorful (yet still low calorie) beverages by my side all day helps tremendously in upping my water intake!
So today’s recipe is another iced tea recipe… one that infuses the lovely herbal flavor of basil into the fruity and earthy Jasmine Tea
So here is the super simple recipe!
Basil Infused Jasmine Iced Tea
Basil Infused Jasmine Iced Tea
Ingredients:
Jasmine Tea
~5 basil leaves
ice cubes
sweetener (if desired)
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Directions:
1. Steep the basil and about 5 jasmine tea bags in 1 cup boiling water. Let sit for about 10 minutes.
2. Remove the tea bags and add the hot tea to a quart pitcher. Add cold water and ice cubes. Chill.
3. Serve the iced tea with a few basil leaves as garnish. I will sometimes add a bit of Stevia to sweeten the tea.
Basil Infused Jasmine Iced Tea
This is such an easy, delicious iced tea. I love the flavor that the basil imparts into this drink. And I absolutely love the taste of the Jasmine Tea!
Basil Infused Jasmine Iced Tea
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Sounds good! Will try soon 🙂
It is yummy! Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by, Swapna!
Ooo…wow…this looks so yummy!
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Definitely a refreshing drink! Thanks for your comment, Jess!
Just to confirm, use “white jasmine” or “green jasmine tea” with actual tea in the blend as opposed to just dried jasmine flower tea (which I’m not find of)? I use the green-jasmine with coconut cream powder to make delicious iced coconut green jasmine tea. I just stir in a couple of tablespoons of coconut cream powder into the hot tea. I buy “Chao Thai brand coconut cream powder”.
I have a beautiful, bountiful potted basil plant and so I was wondering if I could add basil to my tea. So I googled and your blog came up. I just made it and I can confirm that the basil takes it to the next level!
I’ll be interested to check out the rest of your site. I’m an “engineer mommy” too. Well, engineer Mom, my kids are 21, 25 and 29. Cheers from PEI Canada