Mint and Lime Iced Tea
TIME/SERVINGS
Total: 15 mins, plus refrigeration time
Active: 5 mins
Makes: 4 to 6 servings (about 8 cups)
By Aïda Mollenkamp
Our sweet Southern-style iced tea gives lemonade a run for its money as the official hot-weather drink.
This recipe was featured as part of our Mother’s Day Picnic.
INGREDIENTS
For the tea:
- 8 cups (2 quarts) water
- 8 green tea bags
- 1 bunch fresh mint
- 1 1/2 cups superfine or granulated sugar
To serve:
INSTRUCTIONS
For the tea:
To serve:
- Place water in a medium pot and bring to a simmer over high heat. When water simmers, remove from heat, add tea bags and mint, cover, and let steep 10 minutes.
- Once tea has steeped, discard tea bags, add sugar, and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Let tea cool to room temperature, then place in the refrigerator to cool completely, about 2 hours.
To serve:
- Once tea is cold, remove mint and stir in lime juice. Taste and adjust with more lime juice or sugar as desired. Serve over ice with a sprig of mint and a wedge of lime (if using).
COMMENTS | ADD YOUR OWN
Really, so amazing.
Wow, that's a lot of sugar! Even assuming 6 servings, that's a quarter cup of sugar per serving. Yikes! Looks great otherwise.
Yup. Southern style sweet tea is very very sweet! But delicious, and meant to be served over a big cup of ice.
This is really soooooooooo fabulous! I used key lime and replaced most of the sugar with Splenda using only 1/2 cup of real sugar. It's one of the best tasting drinks I've had this summer. The mint and lime taste so good together. Just made it and have already almost finished the whole pitcher myself. And I'm not a "mint person." Almost passed on it because of that. Glad I tried it. A Lovely drink!
When a tea recipe like this calls for mint, does it mean spearmint or peppermint?
Add bourbon and you are set. I concocted a drink called the Southern Picnic using this recipe - http://www.chow.com/recipes/11826
I love this it is so simple to make and its not something you neeed to keep going to the recipe to go check aha
really great for family parties that have kids who arent allowed to drink hehe