Garden Fresh Mint Tea
This garden fresh mint tea is such a refreshing drink for hot summer days. Grab some mint from your garden and make this up to have fresh or as a concentrate you can freeze for summer in a jar later on.
Fresh mint growing in the garden is a smell that brings me back to my childhood. It takes me back to a simple and beautiful time. And I love growing it in my garden for the smell and also the wonderful mint tea that I can make with it.
People warn that mint can be very invasive and take over a garden. I plant it in a container in my garden and encourage it to grow as much as possible. The more I harvest, the more it grows. So as soon as it is ready, I start the process of harvesting and making this tea concentrate.
Ingredients for Mint Tea
- 6 cups filtered water
- 1-2 cups organic cane sugar
- 3 cups cleaned mint leaves removed from the stems
How to Make Garden Fresh Mint Tea
This recipe is for a concentrate that you will add water to when you want to drink it. It will need at least six hours and preferably 12 hours to steep.
- First combine the water and sugar in a pot on the stove. Bring to a boil and then remove from the heat.
- Add in the mint leaves. Stir them around. Put a lid on the top of the pot and then leave them to steep for 6-12 hours.
- After the time is up, strain out the mint leaves through a strainer set over a large measuring cup.
- Pour into glass jars to store in the fridge or in the freezer for later use.
- This is a concentrate and should be diluted with water when ready to drink. One quart of concentrate should make a gallon of tea when the water is added.
- If you want to just make a glass, a good measurement is about 1 part of tea concentrate to 2 parts water and then some ice cubes on top.
Can I Make This Mint Tea without Sugar?
If you put in two cups of sugar to the six cups of water, your tea concentrate will be quite sweet (in my opinion at least). I sometimes add closer to a cup of sugar for a bit less sweet flavor for my family. They drink it either way.
You can play with the sweetness your family enjoys.
And yes, you can also make it without sugar. It will be a different taste and still great. Just not sweet.
The nice thing about having a lot of mint to use is that you can play with the sweetness you like best.
Garden Fresh Mint Tea
This garden fresh mint tea is such a refreshing drink for hot summer days. Grab some mint from your garden and make this up to have fresh or as a concentrate you can freeze for summer in a jar later on.
Ingredients
- 6 cups Filtered water
- 1-2 cups sugar
- 3 cups mint leaves (rinsed from the garden)
Instructions
- Combine the water and sugar in a pot on the stove. Bring to a boil and then remove from the heat.
- Add in the mint leaves. Stir them around. Put a lid on the top of the pot and then leave them to steep for 6-12 hours.
- After the time is up, strain out the mint leaves through a strainer set over a large measuring cup.
- Pour into glass jars to store in the fridge or in the freezer for later use.
- This is a concentrate and should be diluted with water when ready to drink. One quart of concentrate should make a gallon of tea when the water is added.
- If you want to just make a glass, a good measurement is about 1 part of tea concentrate to 2 parts water and then some ice cubes on top.
Notes
I usually make this in the evening and leave overnight and then strain in the morning.
I usually pour out a bit into a glass, add water and ice and don't fuss about measurements.
Other Refreshing Summer Drinks
Another drink that we love to have in the summer is one we usually make in the winter and freeze for warm summer days. Our fresh homemade lemonade also makes a concentrate and is good fresh or out of the freezer later on.
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