Sweet Peach Tea

Annacia's Note:

Why serve plain iced tea when you can punch it up with healthy, natural flavors like ginger, mint, lemon and peach?

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 ounce tea leaves (Earl Grey or Darjeeling, about 1/3 cup loose tea or 7 bags)
• 1 lemon, sliced
• 1 piece gingerroot, peeled and smashed (about 2 inches)
• 1 quart boiling water
• 8 cups ice cubes
• 2 peaches, peeled, pitted and diced
• 1/2 cup sugar (or Splenda)
• 8 sprigs mint
• 1 fresh peach, pitted and sliced

Directions:

1. Place tea, lemon and ginger in a heatproof container and add boiling water. Let tea steep 7 to 8 minutes.
2. Place 4 cups of the ice in a pitcher, then pour in tea.
3. Blend diced peaches and sugar in a blender until smooth; mix into tea. Serve in glasses over remaining ice and garnish with mint and peach slices.

Reviews

[Pink Kitchenaid Lover]

Despite living in the South, we are not cold tea drinkers. But, we can't get enough of this stuff. Spectacularly delicious. Wonderful mixture of tea, peach, and ginger flavors. Heavenly. i double the batch and made a new batch every single day for about a week. Thanks for posting the recipe!

[Sydney Mike]

I'm a bugger about NOT diluting my iced drinks with plain ol' ice cubes, so I ended up making two batches of this, one on the first day & one on the second ~ The 1st batch was used to make ice cubes, & the 2nd batch was for drinking WITH those 'ice tea cubes' & I had not only AN OUTSTANDING DRINK but also a recipe that's a real keeper! [Tagged, made & reviewed in Beverage Tag]

[sassafrasnanc]

Wonderful tea! Everyone liked it from me to the 10 year old son. We felt like we were drinking one of those $3.50 a bottle organic drinks at the health food store!! I was so happy that I had the Earl Grey tea bags as the flavors all blended so well with the lemon, ginger and of course the FRESH PEACHES! Thank you for a wonderful recipe!