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.
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.
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Brewed with: Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g
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