Black Cherry Iced Tea

Name: Black Cherry Iced Tea
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 454 grams fresh black cherries, pitted, or two 10-ounce bags frozen pitted black cherries, thawed; 16 green-tea bags; 59 milliliters fresh lemon juice; 1 sprig Mint , for serving; 296 milliliters sugar; 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped; 2 liters water; 3 whole star anise

Black Cherry Iced Tean is a gluten free and vegan beverage. This recipe serves 5. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 1g of protein, 0g of fat, and a total of 257 calories. Head to the store and pick up two 10-ounce bags cherries, mint sprigs, star anise, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Bring the water to a boil in a large saucepan.

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Water

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Sauce Pan

Add the black cherries, sugar, lemon juice, star anise and the vanilla bean with its seeds. Simmer the cherries over low heat for 15 minutes, crushing them against the side of the pan with a wooden spoon.

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Black Cherries

Vanilla Bean

Lemon Juice

Star Anise

Cherries

Seeds

Sugar

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Wooden Spoon

Frying Pan

Remove the cherries from the heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour.

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Cherries

Strain the cherry juice through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan, pressing on the solids. Discard the solids. Bring the cherry juice to a boil over moderate heat.

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Cherry Juice