Green Tea Recipes

J.,

Here is what we do. Put 6(? or more to your taste) tea bags into a pitcher. Boil a tea kettle of water. Pour water over tea bags until pitcher is about 1/3 full. Cover pitcher with foil and let steep for about 10 minutes. Pull out tea bags. Add honey, stevia, sugar to taste if desired. Fill pitcher with ice. Add lemon or lime slices if desired.
Sometimes we use flavored green tea blends( like green tea and lemon) or roasted green tea, which has more of a coffee-esque or chicory type flavor. I like Tazo organic teas. My husband like Salada green tea with purple antioxidents (fortified with grapeskin, red tea, vit. C, and blueberry. For "soda" mix iced teas with plain seltzer.
It's really just a big experiment to find what you like. You'll have some flops, but it's fun to create your own recipe.
Best wishes.
L.

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For sweetening think Stevia. Otherwise "Sweet Leaf". It's not suger, it's realated to the mints.

Research it on-line easily. There's a short book on it too. Good read.

I use the liquid, and seems expesive but it last for a million years. I tried to grow a plant for purity and it went bad before I got it in the mail. It's nothing foriegn or exotic either so

I use any brand of decaf green tea bag for our tea. The tea package usually recommends 4 tea bags per quart of tea. I use a 3 quart pitcher, so I use 12 tea bags. I boil the water, steep the tea bags for 3 minutes (anything longer than 5 minutes will cause your tea to have a bitter "twang"), then I add 2 cups of Splenda (if you're using a smaller pitcher, try 1/2 cup Splenda per quart to start out, then add more if it's not sweet enough for you). Then I cut one lemon or one orange and squeeze the juice into the tea and chill. With the Splenda, be advised that the tea seems to taste sweeter once it cools, so you may want to wait until it is chilled to add extra Splenda if needed. You can even get fancy and add a little pomegranate juice, orange juice, apple juice, etc. and make one of those fancy tea coolers. Just add a little juice at a time (maybe in 1/2 cup portions) til you get it to suit your taste.