Passion Fruit Iced Tea
This summer you can cool down with an exotic drink: iced tea with passion fruit, a tropical journey in a single glass.
The idea came to me when I noticed that iced tea is very popular among my friends. Iced tea this, iced tea that. So the homemade version of iced tea with your desired flavor, sweetened to your own taste and without preservatives was quickly born in my mind.
Passion fruit contains lots of vitamin C and A, has a laxative effect (so it's recommended for weight loss) and is calming. Don't throw away the seeds - they're full of fiber and you can add them to your morning yogurt.
Enjoy the refreshment with this iced tea!
Ingredients
4 heaping teaspoons black tea (or green tea)
5 passion fruits (maracuja)
1 cup sugar
ice
Servings: 5 glasses
How to prepare passion fruit iced tea
- Bring 1 cup of water with 1 cup of sugar to a boil, simmer for 2 minutes after it starts boiling. Remove the syrup from heat and let it cool completely.
- Prepare the tea by putting 2 cups of water in a kettle along with the black tea. Boil for 2 minutes after the water starts boiling. Remove the kettle from heat, cover it and let it steep for 3-4 minutes. Strain the tea and let it cool completely.
- Scoop out the pulp from the passion fruits. Put the pulp in a fine mesh sieve over a bowl. Rub with a spoon until all the yellow pulp passes through the sieve and only the seeds remain in the sieve. You will have passion fruit juice in the bowl.
- Put the passion fruit juice, tea and 1 1/2 cups cold water in a pitcher. Mix well.
- Pour sugar syrup into the pitcher to taste (I used about 2/3 of the prepared syrup), until it's sweet enough for you.
- Refrigerate the pitcher until serving time.
- When serving, stir the pitcher (the passion fruit pulp settles at the bottom) and add plenty of ice, or you can add ice directly to glasses and pour the tea over it.
Passion fruit
Pulp in fine mesh sieve
Only seeds remain in the sieve
Iced tea in pitcher
