Basic Iced Tea

Name: Basic Iced Tea
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 8 servings Ice; 1 medium lemon or orange; 8 tea bags of any good-quality black tea; 2 liters simmering water

Basic Iced Tea requires about 30 minutes from start to finish. Watching your figure? This gluten free, primal, and fodmap friendly recipe has 4 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. For 34 cents per serving, you get a beverage that serves 8. If you have ice, lemon, tea bags of any tea, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Place the tea bags in a large heatproof glass pitcher. Use a vegetable peeler to strip the peel from the lemon or orange, avoiding as much of the white pith as possible, and add the peel to the pitcher.

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Vegetable

Tea Bag

Orange

Lemon

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Peeler

Pour the simmering water into the pitcher and let it steep for at least 5 minutes.

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Water

Remove the tea bags and discard. Refrigerate the tea until cool.To serve, fill iced tea glasses with ice and pour the tea over the ice. Sweeten with simple syrup, if desired.

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Simple Syrup