Mint Iced Tea

Name: Mint Iced Tea
Prep time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 2 cups fresh mint leaves; 9 cups cold water, divided; 2 Luzianne® Family Size Iced Tea bags*; Mint leaves for garnish, optional

Prep Time:

10 minutes

Brew Time:

20 minutes

Yield:

2 quarts

There’s nothing more refreshing than a tall glass of iced tea infused with the flavor of fresh mint. This one’s top of the list for a summer fish fry or backyard barbecue.

Luzianne_® Iced Tea

There’s nothing as refreshing and invigorating as a glass of home-brewed Luzianne_® Iced Tea. Steeped in over a century of tradition, our Iced Tea is a smooth blend of orange pekoe and pekoe cut black teas, carefully selected and specially blended for iced tea.

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Ingredients

1 cup sugar
2 cups fresh mint leaves
9 cups cold water, divided
2 Luzianne_® Family Size Iced Tea bags*
Mint leaves for garnish, optional

Directions

Prepare mint syrup: Combine the sugar, mint leaves, and 1 cup water in a small saucepot over high heat. Stir. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until sugar is dissolved, about 90 seconds. Allow to steep for 20 minutes. Using a fine mesh strainer, strain the solids from the liquid, pressing on the solids with the back of a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard solids. Place syrup in refrigerator to cool.
While the syrup is cooling make a strong tea. In a pitcher steep 2 tea bags in 2 cups boiling water for 10 minutes.* Remove and discard tea bags. Add the 6 remaining cups water.
Sweeten to taste with ½ to 1 cup of the chilled mint syrup.

*Alternatively, steep 2 bags of Luzianne_® Cold Brew Iced Tea in 2 cups cold water for 10 minutes.