The versatile Iced Tea
A refreshing iced tea tastes great during hot summer days and it's also an amazing ingredient in cooling beverages and festive tea based cocktails.
You can make iced tea either by steeping tea in hot water and letting it cool before adding the other ingredients, or you can make so called cold brewed iced tea where you let the tea steep in cold water longer, for example over night in the refrigerator.
Cold brewed tea gives a fresh and sweet tea without the sometimes bitter and too strong flavours of hot tea brewed too long. It's also easy to make larger amounts of cold steeped tea so that it's enough for all thirsty friends.
Traditionally steeped hot tea with its strong flavours is however also a great ingredient in drinks, cocktails and beverages.
The different tea types all have their distinctive aromas and flavours that go especially well together with certain fruits, berries and herbs. We listed a few ideas and flavour combinations for delicious summer iced teas.
You can basically use any tea of your choice as tea base in your iced tea. Some well-proven teas are:
- Black tea
- Green tea
- White tea
- Rooibos tea
- Oolong tea
- Sencha tea
- Herbal tea
- Fruit tea
- Jasmine tea
Mojito Iced Tea
- Tea eg. green, white or mint tea
- The juice of lime fruit and lime slices
- Fresh mint leaves
- Sweetener eg. Monin Frosted Mint-, Monin Mojito Mint-, Monin Lime flavoured syrup
- Ice
Tea & Tonic
- Tea eg. green, white or oolong tea
- Tonic water
- Fresh cucumber sliced
- Monin Cucumber flavoured syrup
- Lemon slice
- Ice
Tegroni
- Rooibos or black tea
- The juice of an orange slice
- Monin Orange Spritz flavoured syrup
- Orange zest or an orange slice as garnish
- Rosemary as garnish
- Ice
Lemon Iced Tea
- Green tea
- The juice of a lemon and lemon slices
- Honey
- Flavour and sweetener according to taste eg. Monin Cloudy Lemonade flavoured syrup
- Fresh mint, lemon verbena or rosemary
- Ice
Ginger Iced Tea
- Tea eg. black, green, white or oolong tea
- Lemon juice, lemonade or lemon flavoured sparkling water
- The juice of a lemon and lemon slices
- Fresh ginger peeled and sliced, not grated because it becomes too strong
- Honey or other sweetener eg. Monin Ginger flavoured syrup
- Ice
Elderflower & Apple Iced Tea
- Tea eg. white, green or jasmine tea
- Elderflower juice concentrate or Monin Elder Flower flavoured syrup
- Apple juice
- Fresh mint leaves
- Apple slices as garnish
- Ice
Peach & Passion Iced Tea
- Tea
- Sparkling water
- Sweetener eg.. Monin Peach Tea, Monin White Peach, Monin Passion Fruit or Maison Routin 1883 Iced Tea Peach flavoured syrup
- Peach slices
- Passion fruit
- Ice
Strawberry & Basil Iced Tea
- Tea eg. black, green, white or flavoured fruit tea
- Strawberries sliced and if you want also pureed
- Monin Basil flavoured syrup
- The juice of lime fruit and lime slices
- Fresh Basil leaves
- Ice
Pomegranate Spritz
- Tea eg. black, green, white or flavoured fruit tea
- Monin Pomegranate flavoured syrup or pomegranate juice
- Pomegranate seeds
- Cava or Champagne
- Ice
Watermelon & Lime Iced Tea
- Tea
- Monin Watermelon flavoured syrup
- Watermelon cubes
- The juice of lime fruit and lime slices
- Fresh mint or lemon verbena
- Ice
Lavender & Earl Grey Iced Tea
- Earl Grey tea
- Monin Lavender flavoured syrup
- Honey
- Sparkling water natural or lemon flavoured, or lemon soda
- Sliced lemon
- Ice
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