Summertime Citrus Iced Tea

Name: Summertime Citrus Iced Tea
Prep time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 large navel orange; 1 large lemon; 5 ½ cups cold water, divided; 1 cup sugar; 2 Luzianne® Family Size Iced Tea bags*; 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice; 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, chilled; Lemon wheels and oranges wedges for garnish, optional

Prep Time:

10 minutes

Brew Time:

20 minutes

Yield:

2 quarts

Strong Southern iced tea blended with lemon and orange juices, with extra zing from orange and lemon zest. Makes a delightful brunch drink!

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.

Got Luzianne_® Iced Tea bags of a different size?

Our handy Luzianne_® Iced Tea Bag Conversion Chart will tell you how many to use for this recipe.

Ingredients

1 large navel orange
1 large lemon
5 ½ cups cold water, divided
1 cup sugar
2 Luzianne_® Family Size Iced Tea bags*
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, chilled
Lemon wheels and oranges wedges for garnish, optional

Directions

Using a vegetable peeler remove the zest from the orange and the lemon. Set aside. Reserve the fruit for another use.
Prepare citrus syrup: Add the orange zest and lemon zests, 1 cup water and sugar to a small saucepot. Stir. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until sugar is dissolved, about 90 seconds. Set aside 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 remaining 2 ½ cups water.
Add the lemon and orange juices and the citrus syrup to taste, ½ to 1 cup; stir. Chill and serve over ice with orange and lemon wheels if desired.

To make a refreshing cocktail punch, replace 2 cups of the cold water with 2 cups of chilled gin.

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