Sugar Free Strawberry Iced Tea

Submitted by Cindi Bauer

"This is a 3-ingredient, sugar free, strawberry flavored iced tea. Ingredients are: orange pekoe & black tea, water, and 1 container of Wal-mart's Great Value Sugar Free Strawberry Flavored Drink Mix. Note: Cook time is heating the water and steeping the tea."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 17mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Yields: 2 quarts

ingredients

• 9 regular size tea bags (orange pekoe & black tea)
• 8 cups water, divided
• 1 packet sugar free strawberry flavored powdered drink mix

directions

1. Place tea bags in a 2-quart size glass pitcher.
2. In a medium size saucepan, bring 4 cups of water almost to a boil.
3. Remove pan from heat, as soon as you see bubbles start to come to the surface.
4. Pour the hot water over the tea bags in the glass pitcher.
5. Cover the pitcher with plastic wrap, and let the tea steep for 1 hour.
6. After one hour; carefully squeeze tea/water from the tea bags into the pitcher; stir, then discard the tea bags.
7. Cover the pitcher, then let sit until the tea has cooled down a bit more.
8. Once the tea has cooled, add the packet of sugar free strawberry flavored drink mix, and the 4 cups of cold water, and stir.
9. Refrigerate the tea until it's chilled, then pour in glasses filled with ice.