Green Tea with Ginger and Lemon
This is a fragrant tea with a slight spiciness from the ginger.
Ginger has beneficial effects in treating colds, fever, bloating, nausea, asthma, indigestion, and muscle contractions.
"Ginger tea is a good remedy for colds, being an ideal soother for throat inflammation, sinusitis, hoarseness, fever, eliminating mucus, and respiratory congestion." tratamente-naturiste.ro
You can read more about ginger here.
Green tea has antioxidant and diuretic effects, lowers blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
Ingredients
20g fresh ginger
1/2 lemon
1 green tea bag (or 1 teaspoon loose green tea)
1 cinnamon stick
honey
Servings: 1 cup of tea
How to prepare green tea with ginger and lemon
- Cut the lemon zest with a vegetable peeler, avoiding the white pith as much as possible. Peel the ginger and slice it.
- Put the lemon zest and ginger in a small pot with 1 1/2 cups of water. Boil for 15 minutes.
- Strain the ginger-lemon tea into a cup containing the green tea and cinnamon stick. Let it steep for 3 minutes. Remove and discard the green tea bag.
- Sweeten the tea to taste with honey and serve warm.
Boil the lemon zest and ginger
Steep with green tea and cinnamon
Tea bag version
Serve warm
