This tea is infused with the flavors of lychee, lemon slices, and green tea. It is sweet and fruity with notes of acidity and sourness. It is the perfect summer drink for a hot summer day that everyone can enjoy – gluten-free, vegan, and low-fat!
What To Love About Hand-Brewed Lychee Lemon Tea
If you love traditional Chinese teas, you should definitely try this hand-brewed lychee lemon tea recipe. The main ingredients are lychees, lemon slices, and green tea. Make it sweet with your choice of sweetener and add in some ice cubes for an ice-cold and refreshing drink.
Preparation takes only 5 minutes, while the recipe steps will probably take you another 5 minutes to complete. It is super easy to prepare, making it the ideal drink for a quick tea. Plus, you can personalize this drink to your liking by adding extra ingredients such as fruits and garnishes.
Basically, all you have to do is crush all the ingredients into bits in a glass shaker. The fun last step – just shake, shake, shake! And voila, you have a cold hand-brewed lychee lemon tea.
Try These Ingredient Alternatives And Suggestions
Here are some excellent alternatives and suggestions worth considering when making this tea. Check out these tips to learn how to prepare each ingredient and which alternatives to use.
- Lychees: I used 6 lychees that I peeled with the husk and seed removed. You can add more if you like. Use fresh or canned lychees. As an alternative, you can use lychee-infused tea bags or lychee syrup. If you want to swap lychee with another fruit, the closest alternatives are longan and rambutan. When cleaning and preparing the lychee, remove the shell to leave you with a white fruit. Cut this in half to remove the seed inside.
- Lemon slices: A few lemon slices add a bright and zesty taste to the tea. You can also use lime, lemon zest, lemon juice, or lemon puree as an alternative to lemon slices.
- Ice cubes: The ice cubes are crushed along with the rest of the ingredients. This is ideal if you prefer bits of ice to chew. However, you can simply add the ice cubes last as a whole without needing to crush them.
- Fructose: You can choose any type of sweetener, such as maple syrup, rock sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, muscovado, cane sugar, or coconut sugar. Adjust the sweetness according to your liking. This can also be omitted if you prefer no added sugars.
- Green tea: The tea base I brewed is green tea. Prepare this as you normally would by pouring boiled water over green tea bags in a cup for about 3 to 4 minutes. Let it cool down first or chill it in the fridge before adding to your lychee tea so that it does not melt the ice. You can also use jasmine tea as an alternative or other mellow or mild tea bases. I don’t really recommend black tea since this will only overpower the overall taste of the tea.
- Optional ingredients: Spice it up by adding more lemon slices for garnish. For a different flavor, you can also use fresh strawberries, strawberry puree, or strawberry syrup. Make it a fizzy drink by adding soda water or sparkling water.
Ingredients And Tools: Here’s What You Need
You’ll need a tool to crush the ingredients by hand, such as a mortar or pill crusher. However, you can always use a blender to help you if you prefer. Use a glass shaker or any container with a cover to shake the ingredients without spilling. As for the ingredients, here’s everything you need.
Kitchenware
- Knife and chopping board
- Mortar or pill crusher
- Glass shaker or cocktail shaker with a cover
- Tea glass and straw
Ingredients
- 6 lychees (peeled and seed removed)
- 3 lemon slices
- 100g of ice cubes
- 10 ml of fructose
- 300ml of green tea
- Lemon slices for garnish
Instructions: How To Make Hand-Brewed Lychee Lemon Tea
Complete this recipe in a few simple steps. Simply prepare your key ingredients and crush everything in a container. Watch how I did it with my Instagram or TikTok tutorial video.
- Wash and prepare your lychees by peeling the skin and removing the seed.
- Wash and cut your lemon into thin slices.
- Make your green tea by pouring hot water over tea bags in a cup. Let it cool in the fridge.
- In a glass shaker, crush the lychees using a mortar.
- Add lemon slices and ice cubes and crush them all together.
- Add fructose and chilled green tea.
- Cover the glass shaker and shake well.
- Transfer your drink to your chosen glass container, add more lemon slices, and drink it with a straw if desired.
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How To Make Lychee Tea
Equipment
- Knife and chopping board
- Mortar or pill crusher
- Glass shaker or cocktail shaker with a cover
- Tea glass and straw
Ingredients
- 6 lychees peeled and seed removed
- 3 lemon slices
- 100 g of ice cubes
- 10 ml of fructose
- 300 ml of green tea
- Lemon slices for garnish
