How to Make Iced Green Tea
Makes: 3 quarts
Preparation time: Overnight
Cooking time: 10 mins
Ingredients needed to make Iced Green Tea:
- ¼ oz Chinese green tea leaves
- ¾ cup ginger syrup (recipe below)
- ¼ cup pomegranate syrup
- Juice of a lemon
- Lemon slices, to garnish
- Mint leaves, to garnish
- Pomegranate seeds, to garnish
For the ginger syrup:
- ½ lb fresh ginger root, skin on
- 2 cups water
- 3 cups white sugar
Cooking instructions for Iced Green Tea:
- To make the syrup, chop the ginger into smaller chunks and pulse them in a food processor to form a fine paste, with a texture resembling that of rough wood chips.
- Pour water into the saucepan and stir in the sugar.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and reduce it to a simmer at once.
- Continue to simmer for about 5 minutes and stir in the ginger paste.
- Turn off the heat and pour the syrup into a jug; it will make about 5 cups.
- Leave it in the fridge overnight to steep.
- Pass it through a fine mesh to get rid of the fine ginger threads and discard the residues.
- Transfer the syrup into a bottle and leave it in the fridge until necessary; it can be preserved for as long as several weeks when stored in fridge.
- To make the iced tea, take the green tea leaves in a large bowl.
- Pour 3 ½ cups of water into a pot and heat it to 170 degrees F; set aside to cool for about 5-7 minutes and then pour it over the tea.
- Cover and let it rest for about 10 minutes to let it steep and then strain it through a strainer into a jug.
- Add a splash of lemon juice, followed by ¾ cup of the ginger syrup and pomegranate syrup.
- Empty 8 cups of water into it and stir them all together until well combined.
- Set aside in the refrigetor for a couple of hours and pour it into tall glasses.
- Drop some ice cubes into each glass of iced green tea and top it up with pomegranate seeds.
- Muddle the mint leaves and place it on top of the seeds.
- Finish it off with a lemon slice on top and serve chilled.
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Last Updated on January 11, 2013 by
