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Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

June 18, 2014 by Robin 3 Comments

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Watermelon-Mint Flavored Iced Tea. Iced Tea with a fruity twist and a hint of mint. The perfect summer beverage for those hot summer days. #icedtea #flavoredteaWatermelon-Mint Iced TeaI’m not a soda, or pop drinker, tea is my beverage of choice, but tea can get pretty boring. I’m always looking for ways to kick my boring ole’ tea up a notch and summertime is the perfect opportunity. With all of the fresh fruits and herbs available this time of year it’s the perfect time for experimenting.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

I love watermelon, but the problem is they are so big that it usually goes bad before we can eat it all. Last week I bought a seedless watermelon for our first summer, family picnic and of course we didn’t eat it all. To keep it from going to waste I decided to to do a little experimenting and see how it would taste in tea.

Absolutely amazing is how it tasted!

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

Using my blender I pureed the cubed watermelon.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

I actually could have drank it just like this, but that would have defeated my experiment.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

The puree was a little grainy so I ran it through the strainer. Next time I think I will use strain it with cheesecloth because there was still a little graininess to the juice.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

Watermelon and mint sounded like a refreshing combination and since my mint plants were flourishing I decided to add a little.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

After I steeped the tea and while it was still hot I added the mint so that the flavor would infuse with the tea. Once it was cooled I removed the tea bags and mint and refrigerated.

When it was cold enough I mixed the tea mixture with the pureed watermelon, gave it a good stir and served it over ice.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea

No more wasted watermelon in my future. This was incredibly delicious and didn’t last very long.

Watermelon-Mint Iced Tea
 
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Iced Tea with a fruity twist and a hint of mint. The perfect summer beverage for those hot summer days.
Author: Robin Buster
Recipe type: Beverage
Yields: 2 quarts
Ingredients
  • 6 cups seedless watermelon, cubed
  • 6 cups water
  • 6 tea bags
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup mint leaves
Instructions
  1. Puree watermelon, strain and refrigerate.
  2. In a medium saucepan bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and add tea bags. Let it steep for 5 minutes.
  3. Stir in sugar and mint, let cool and refrigerate.
  4. Remove mint and stir together the tea and watermelon puree.
  5. Serve over ice.
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Comments

  1. Cheri, the Quilting Nanny says

    June 24, 2014 at 7:56 pm

    Wow.. 3 of my favorites! I am a "tea-aholic"…Lipton 24/7/365! And watermelon is my fav fruit and mint..used to grow the stuff! I will give this a try. Watermelon tea..sounds like the making of an old country song! Followed you from Blackberry vines linky

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