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Hot Ginger Mint Green Tea with Honey

A bright, warming green tea with fresh ginger heat, cool mint and a gentle honey-lemon finish, clear and light with no milk.

Hot Ginger Mint Green Tea with Honey

Ingredients

  • ½ cup120 gWater
  • 2 tbsp grated12 gFresh gingerthinly sliced
  • 1 tbsp chopped6 gFresh mintleaves picked, plus 2 sprigs for garnish
  • 1½ cups (350 ml)360 gBrewed green teafreshly brewed and hot
  • 2½ tsp18 gHoney
  • 2 tsp10 gLemon juice

Steps

  1. Brew the green tea and keep it hot.
  2. In a small pot, bring the water and the sliced ginger to a simmer over medium heat and simmer for 4 minutes to make a ginger infusion.
  3. Take the pot off the heat, add the mint leaves (keeping the 2 garnish sprigs aside) and let them steep in the ginger infusion for 2 minutes.
  4. Pour the hot green tea into the pot and stir.
  5. Stir in the honey until dissolved, then stir in the lemon juice.
  6. Strain into 2 mugs, discarding the ginger and steeped mint, and garnish each mug with one mint sprig. Serve hot.

Allergens: none of the nine major allergens in the ingredients as written.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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