Jasmine Green Tea Lemonade Recipe

The recipe

Exact quantities, then the method.

This jasmine Green Tea lemonade is what bottled iced tea wishes it was: floral, tart and barely sweet, with the fizz of sparkling water lifting the jasmine right up off the glass. The method is a brew-strong-then-lengthen trick, so the tea flavour holds up once the lemon and bubbles go in rather than washing out.

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It uses Twinings Jasmine Green Tea brewed as a concentrate. Make the base ahead, keep it in the fridge, and build glasses to order all afternoon.

⏱ 10 min (+ chill) 🍽 4 📊 Easy 📚 Jasmine Tea Recipes

You'll need

4 bags Twinings Jasmine Green Tea
400ml water at about 80C
Juice of 2 lemons (about 80ml)
2 to 3 tbsp honey or sugar syrup, to taste
500ml chilled sparkling water
Ice and lemon slices to serve

Method

Rest the just-boiled kettle for a minute to reach about 80C, then brew the 4 jasmine green tea bags in the 400ml water for 4 minutes to make a strong concentrate.
Stir the honey or sugar syrup into the warm concentrate until fully dissolved, then remove the bags.
Leave the concentrate to cool, then stir in the lemon juice.
Chill the lemon-tea concentrate until properly cold, at least an hour.
To serve, half-fill glasses with ice and pour over the chilled concentrate to about two-thirds.
Top each glass with chilled sparkling water, stir once and finish with a lemon slice.
The concentrate should taste slightly strong and sweet, since the sparkling water dilutes both as you top up.

What you'll end up with: Crisp, floral and grown-up: tart from the lemon, softly sweet underneath, with the jasmine carrying through the fizz. Drier and far more interesting than ordinary lemonade, and it holds its flavour over ice.

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