Ginger, Lemon and Honey Tea
A caffeine-free ginger infusion with lemon and honey, steeped ten minutes.
15 min
2 servings
Difficulty 1/5
Drink · Supper
Prep 5 min · Cook 10 min
Ginger steeped in hot water, with the lemon and the honey added afterwards. Both go in at the end for the same reason — heat takes what is good out of them.
Per serving
44
kcal / serving
Ingredients
Written for 2 servings. Change the servings to rescale every amount.
Ginger
20 grams
Lemon
4 slices (28 grams)
Honey
3 teaspoons (21 grams)
Steps
Peel the ginger with the edge of a spoon and slice it as thinly as you can. Thin slices give up their heat in ten minutes; a thick chunk needs half an hour.
3 min
Put the ginger in a teapot, pour over 600 ml of water just off the boil and cover it for ten minutes.
10 min
Add the lemon slices after the steeping. Lemon left in boiling water for ten minutes turns bitter from the pith.
1 min
Stir the honey in once the tea is warm rather than hot, and pour it into two cups.
1 min
Serving suggestion
Two cups from one pot. Drink it in the evening; there is no caffeine in it to keep you up.
Storage
Best in the hour it is made. It keeps overnight in the fridge and is good cold, but the ginger heat fades.
Notes
The 600 ml of water is in step 2 rather than in the ingredient list — it adds nothing to the nutrition.
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