Iced Watermelon Lemon Tea Recipes

BERRY, MELON AND MINT ICED TEA

Steps:

• Bring 5 cups water and the sugar to a boil in a heavy large saucepan. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Add the mint. Remove the pan from the heat and add the tea bags. Let the tea steep for 10 minutes. Cool the tea to room temperature. Strain the tea into a large pitcher or bowl.
• Blend the watermelon and strawberries until smooth in a blender. Stir the fruit mixture into the tea. Add the lemon juice, peppermint and salt. Chill the tea until very cold, at least 2 hours and up to 1 day. Before serving, add chilled prosecco if using.
• Put a few ice cubes into each of the 6 glasses or water goblets. Add some watermelon, strawberries and the blackberries to each glass. Pour tea into each glass and garnish with mint sprigs and serve, passing lemon wedges.

HOW TO MAKE WATERMELON ICED TEA AT HOME

Steps:

• Wash, peel, and cut a watermelon into cubes. Or into a size that would fit your juicer or blender.
• Juice watermelon; discard the chaff. Alternatively, blend watermelon, and sieve for this recipe!
• Add cold sweet iced tea to a pitcher, and add the fresh watermelon juice to it. Stir and taste; adjust the taste by adding more/less watermelon juice. Make this according to your preference. Stir again to combine.
• Only add ice when you are ready to serve.
• Serve watermelon iced tea over ice (I mean, hello!). First, fill up your jar with ice. Second, top with watermelon sweet iced tea. Third, enjoy!

WHITE-TEA MELONADE

Steps:

• Bring 1 cup water to a boil in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add sugar; stir until dissolved. Add tea bags and steep 4 minutes.
• Remove bags; press gently to release liquid, then discard. Let cool completely. Refrigerate until cold.
• Blend mixture with lemon juice and watermelon cubes until smooth. Serve, with watermelon slices.

WATERMELON LEMONADE

Steps:

• Squeeze lemons into a large pitcher; add squeezed lemon quarters. Add mint and sugar; mash with a wooden spoon until mint is bruised and sugar is dissolved.
• In a blender, puree watermelon in batches until smooth; pour through a fine-mesh sieve into pitcher (you should have about 8 cups of juice). Stir to combine. (Refrigerate, covered, up to 3 days.) Add vodka, if using; serve over ice.

THE BEST LEMON ICED TEA

Steps:

• Place green tea bags and black tea bags in a 1-gallon glass jar. Pour boiling water over tea bags; steep for 30 minutes.
• Remove tea bags; stir in sugar and lemonade concentrate until dissolved. Fill jar to the top with cold water; stir in lemon juice. Chill in the refrigerator until cold. Serve over ice.