Lemon iced tea

With summers just round the corner I thought of sharing some refreshing coolers with you all.  First in the series is Lemon Iced Tea .

Iced tea has caught up everyone's fancy in last few years. To get a real good glass of iced tea is very difficult but believe me making it at home is no rocket science. 

 

My preparation below gives three glasses

Ingredients : 

Water                  3 1/2 cups

Sugar                   5 tbsp+1tsp

Tea bags              3

Mint leaves          a handful

Lemon juice         6 tsp

Lemon slices        3 for garnish

Ginger paste         1/2 tsp

 

Method :

1. Bring the water to boil and switch off the gas.
2. Add sugar and tea bags. Brew for five min.
3. Remove tea bags.
4. Arrange a mint leaf in each cube of ice tray.
5. Fill it up with brewed tea. Stash it in the freezer.
6. Put a few mint leaves in the remaining tea and keep it in the fridge to chill.

To serve :

1. Take 3 glasses. Put  7 - 8  prepared  cubes in each glass.
2. Take the cold tea from the fridge, add  6 tsp lemon juice to it and  pour it over the ice cubes in the glass.Taste and adjust lemon juice
3. Garnish with mint leaves and a lemon slice.
4. Serve immediately.

Note: part of brewed tea is frozen as cubes coz if plain ice cubes are used to chill the tea , the tea gets diluted. These tea ice cubes maintain the flavour of iced tea till the last sip.