Iced Citrus Sun Tea Recipes

HOW TO MAKE SUN TEA

Steps:

• Place the tea bags, orange slices and mint in bottom of a large pitcher. Slowly fill with water.
• Cover pitcher with plastic wrap or lid and place outside for at least 4 hours on a sunny or warm day.
• Bring inside and strain tea. Serve with ice.

SWEET CITRUS ICED TEA

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring 4 cups of water just to a boil. Remove from the heat. Add tea bags; let stand for 10 minutes. Discard tea bags. , Pour tea into a large container. Stir in the sugar, lemon juice, orange juice concentrate and remaining water. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over ice.

SUMMERTIME CITRUS ICED TEA

Steps:

• 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.

ICED CITRUS SUN TEA

Steps:

• To make the tea:
• Fill an ice-cube tray with orange juice and freeze, uncovered, until solid, about 4 hours. Orange ice cubes may be made 1 week ahead and kept frozen in a plastic bag.
• In a pitcher combine tea bags and water and let tea stand at room temperature 4 hours.
• Remove tea bags and chill tea, covered, until cold, about 30 minutes.
• Cut half of lemon and lime into slices and squeeze remaining halves into tea. Stir syrup and all fruit slices into tea. Serve tea over orange juice ice cubes in tall glasses.
• To make the simple syrup:
• In a saucepan bring sugar and water to a boil, stirring, and boil until sugar is completely dissolved. Let syrup cool and chill, covered. Syrup may be made 2 weeks ahead and chilled, covered. Makes about 2 cups.