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Spiced Ginger Lime Iced Tea with Berries
Brisk black tea infused with fresh ginger, cinnamon and cardamom, brightened with lime and maple, served icy cold with juicy raspberries and blueberries.

- One pot
- 45 min · 12 min hands-on
- Makes 2 glasses
- Vegan
- Gluten-free
- Up to 30 g carbs
- Sodium 600 mg or less
- Sat fat 4 g or less
- 500 calories or less
Ingredients
- 1⅔ cups (390 ml)400 gBrewed black teafreshly brewed and hot
- 3½ tbsp grated20 gFresh gingerthinly sliced
- ½ tsp1 gGround cinnamon
- ¼ tsp0.5 gGround cardamom
- 1½ tbsp30 gMaple syrup
- 1 lime, juiced40 gLime juice
- ⅓ cup50 gRaspberries
- ⅓ cup50 gBlueberries
Steps
- Pour the hot brewed black tea into a small pot and add the sliced ginger.
- Bring the tea and ginger to a gentle simmer over medium-low heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, stir in the cinnamon and cardamom, and let steep for 4 minutes.
- Strain out the ginger, then stir the maple syrup into the warm tea until dissolved.
- Cool the spiced tea in the fridge for about 30 minutes until cold.
- Stir the lime juice into the chilled tea.
- Divide half the raspberries and half the blueberries between two glasses and lightly crush them with a spoon.
- Fill the glasses with ice, pour the spiced tea over, and top each with the remaining half of the raspberries and blueberries as garnish.
Allergens: none of the nine major allergens in the ingredients as written.
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