Watermelon iced green tea

• Servings: 2
• Preparation time: 3 minutes.
• Boiling time: 2 minutes.
• Immersing teabag time: 10 minutes.
• chilling time: 2 hours.
• Total time: 15 minutes.

Tamil Nadu is known for its hot, humid and rowdy summers, so here is a cup of Watermelon iced green tea, which is able to beat the heat of summer. This is the best summer refreshing tea recipe.

The benefits of this tea are simply amazing; it is Easy to prepare and extremely healthy and gives cooling effect to the body. This tea is packed with the antioxidant benefit of green tea.

The lycopene in watermelon and catechin in green tea are potent antioxidants with proven anti aging benefits. Watermelon provides good quantity of vitamin C and A

Ingredients:

• Water melon: 1 cup (heaped)
• Green tea bag: 2 no.
• Honey/sugar: 1 tablespoon
• Water: 1 cup

Preparation:

1. Discard the upper white layer of watermelon and cut into pieces, put the watermelon into juicer and blend well, strain the juice. Keep into refrigerator.

Method:

1. Boil 1 cup of water. Lower the flames, allow it to boil for couple of minutes.
2. Take a teapot, put teabags into it. Decant the boiled water into the tea pot.
3. Let the teabag immersed into the water for about 10 minutes, strain and chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.
4. Add watermelon juice and honey into the tea, refrigerate for another one hour. Serve chilled.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Watermelon iced green tea by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.