Besides brewing green tea as it is, there are a lot more variations you can try to enjoy green tea as a drink. You can make it ice tea, or even warm tea. With additional ingredients, you can add more nutrition to your green tea drink, such as fruit, ginger, lemon, etc.
Green tea itself is processed from the plant Camellia sinensis. To make green tea, the freshly harvested leaves are immediately steamed at high temperatures and dried. This steam allows the leaves to maintain their green color, which contains catechins with many health benefits, during the rolling and drying processes.
In this article, we would like to show you the most common way to enjoy green tea with lemon and ginger. But before that, make sure to check our following article to know more about Green Tea Health Benefits below:
Lemon Ginger Green Tea Recipe
Researchers found that the consumption of green tea has the most significant effect on human health compared to other forms of tea processed from the same plant. Catechins contained in green tea are believed to have so many health benefits.
In this recipe, we would like to add more ingredients into our green tea that can even give you more health benefits; Lemon and Ginger.
Lemon Ginger Green Tea
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 packet green tea (Also Read Notes)
- ½ inch grated ginger
- 1½ teaspoon honey (optional if you would like a sweet hint in your green tea)
- ¼ lemon (juiced)
Instructions
- Boil and bring the water to simmer. Add a green tea bag and steep for 5-10 minutes.
- Add ginger and lemon juice.
- Remove tea bag. Add honey (optional) when the tea is not too hot anymore.
- Your Lemon Ginger Green Tea is ready to enjoy!
Notes
Another Green Tea Recipes
There are a lot more drink variations you can make using Green Tea, and they are all amazingly refreshing! Check our recommended recipes in these articles below:
Recommended Green Tea Product
In Kawashima The Japanstore, we have a recommended organic green tea powder product from Ujitawara City, Japan. You can check this product below:
