Iced Grapefruit Mate Tea Recipes

GRAPEFRUIT LONG ISLAND ICED TEA

Steps:

• Pull the leaves off of 10 sprigs of mint. Divide them among the 12 cups of a 12-cup muffin tin. Pour water over to cover. Freeze until firm, about 4 hours.
• Combine the sugar with 1 cup water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil and stir to dissolve the sugar. Add the remaining 10 sprigs of mint. Remove from heat and steep 15 minutes. Strain and allow the simple syrup to cool slightly.
• Mix the gin, grapefruit juice, rum, tequila, triple sec, vodka and mint syrup in gallon-size container. Chill until ready to serve. Pour the mixture into a large punch bowl.
• Pour in the cola just before serving. Float 6 to 8 grapefruit slices in the punch. Unmold the mint ice cubes and add to the punch bowl. Serve in cups over ice and garnish with mint sprigs.
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THE BEST ICED TEA RECIPE WITH GRAPEFRUIT

Steps:

• Instructions Pour the boiling water into a pan and place the tea bags into the water to steep for 3 minutes Add the agave nectar and the juice from the squeezed half of the grapefruit and stir. Leave in the fridge until cooled, alternatively to speed up the process you can use a bar mixer filled with ice and shake the tea until chilled in batches. Pour the chilled tea into a jar with ice and add the remaining chopped grapefruit, lemon, and mint ready to serve.

ICED GRAPEFRUIT MATE TEA RECIPE

Steps:

• Boil water, then turn off heat. Allow tea bags and grapefruit to steep 5-10 minutes. Meanwhile, dissolve 1 part sugar into 1 part boiling water for simple syrup. Remove tea bags and pour tea into a gallon pitcher. Fill pitcher the rest of the way with cool water. Stir in no more than a tablespoon of simple syrup if the tea is too bitter. Chill 2-3 hours. Serve over ice.

GRAPEFRUIT TEA

Steps:

• Drop the teabags into the cold grapefruit juice and let steep for a minimum of 10 minutes, stirring often. The longer it steeps, the more tea flavour it will have.
• If desired, dilute with some water, tonic water, club soda, sprite, or 7-Up, for a less-intense flavour.