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Iced Antioxidant Rich Blueberry Green Tea is a light and refreshing drink that you’ll want to sip on all day long! This easy iced green tea recipe is made with blueberries blended with green tea and sweetened with honey.

Three clear glasses filled with iced blueberry green tea. Blueberries and raspberries are scattered around the glasses.

This iced blueberry green tea is pretty and delicious and it makes a perfect festive drink to serve at birthday parties, baby showers and summer potlucks and backyard barbecues.

Clear mixing bowls filled with liquid, fruit, lemon juice and honey.

This blueberry iced green tea is a refreshing drink that your whole family will love! It’s iced green tea that’s blended with blueberries, sweetened with honey and has a delicious taste that screams of summer! 

Iced Blueberry Green Tea Recipe

  • Green tea bags.  We use green tea bags for this recipe, but you can use your favorite loose leaf green tea if you prefer.
  • Blueberries. You can use either fresh or frozen blueberries to make this tea. I like to keep a bag of frozen blueberries in my freezer so I can make this tea any time I like whether or not blueberries are in season. 
  • Water.  Use spring water or filtered water for steeping the tea bags in. 
  • Lemon Juice.  We add a little fresh lemon juice to add a perky fresh taste.
  • Honey. We sweeten the tea with a little honey.
  • Garnish.  Garnish lemon slices and mint sprigs.

Find printable recipe with the measurements below.

How to Make Blueberry Iced Green Tea 

This blueberry iced green tea is refreshing, delicious and so quick and easy to make!  The freshly steeped green tea is blended with blueberries and honey, then strained through a fine mesh (removing the blueberry skins).  

  1. Steep Tea.Bring the water to a simmer in a large pot. Remove from heat and add the tea bags and mint to steep for 5 minutes. 
  2. Blend Ingredients. Add tea, blueberries and honey to blender and blend until smooth. We basically make a blueberry simple syrup for this recipe.
  3. Strain.  Strain the blueberry green tea through a sieve into a pitcher discarding the blueberry skins.
  4. Serve. Chill in the refrigerator before serving. Serve over ice and garnish with lemon slices and sprigs of fresh mint.

Two clear glasses and a clear glass pitcher filled with iced blueberry green tea. Fresh berries are scattered around the glasses.

How to Steep Tea

You’ll use about 1 teaspoon loose tea leaves per 1 cup water or 1 tea bag per 1 cup water.

  • Fill tea kettle or pot with cold water and heat to a simmer just before boiling then remove from heat.
  • Pour hot water over tea leaves (rather than adding tea leaves to a cup with hot water) and steep.  
  • If using an infuser, be sure the tea infuser is fully submerged beneath water while steeping.
  • Remove tea bag or infuser and enjoy tea.

Steeping Loose Leaf Tea

  • Put loose tea leaves right in the cup or tea pot.
  • Add the tea leaves to a ball style infuser to dunk in your cup or pot.
  • Place your tea leaves in a metal strainer and rest it on the lip of your tea cup while pouring the hot water over the tea leaves.
  • Add tea bag to tea cup and pour hot water over tea bag and steep (don’t squeeze tea bag while steeping because it will cause a bitter taste). 

Three clear glasses filled with bluish liquid with berries scattered around the glasses.

How Long Do You Steep Green Tea?

How long to steep green tea depends really on how strong you like your green tea. The longer you steep the tea, the more bitter tasting it can become. 

  • Loose Leaf Tea. Steep for 2 – 4 minutes
  • Tea Bag.  Steep for 1 – 3 minutes

Two glasses and a clear glass pitcher filled with iced blueberry iced tea.

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Post originally published May 30, 2019

Two clear glasses and a glass pitcher are filled with Iced Blueberry Tea.
Yield: 6 servings

Antioxidant Rich Blueberry Green Tea

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Iced Antioxidant Rich Blueberry Green Tea is a light and refreshing drink that you'll want to sip on all day long! This easy iced green tea recipe is made with blueberries blended with green tea and sweetened with honey.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups water
  • 4 green tea bags (I use Stash brand)
  • 1  cup blueberries, fresh or  frozen
  • 1/4 cup clover honey (add more depending on how sweet you like your tea)
  • 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • ice cubes, lemon slices, and fresh mint leaves for garnish

Instructions

  1. Bring the water almost to a boil in a large pot, then turn off heat.
  2. Add the green tea bags to pot and cover with lid. Let tea bags steep for 3 minutes.
  3. Remove tea bags.
  4. Pour the tea into a blender. Add the blueberries and blend for a few seconds.
  5. Pour the tea through a strainer into a large pitcher. Use a silicone spatula to push the mashed berries against the strainer to get all of the juice.
  6. Stir in the honey until dissolved.
  7. Stir in the lemon juice.
  8. Chill in the refrigerator before serving.
  9. Serve with ice.
  10. Garnish with lemon slices and mint leaves.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 64Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 13mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 1gSugar: 15gProtein: 1g

theharvestkitchen.com attempts to provide accurate information, however, this nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. The nutritional information provided comes from online sources and calculations.

© Deborah @The Harvest Kitchen
Cuisine: Healthy / Category: Drinks