Strawberry Basil herbal tea is a detox, healthy, herbal tea recipe which has blasting flavors of fresh strawberry fruit and basil leaves. Additionally, Cuisinart’s programmable kettle makes sure that tea has the right temperature to infuse the flavors.
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I am a big time tea fan here. Well, When I started this blog around 4 years ago, I shared a lots of herbal tea recipes. Unfortunately, at the time I upgraded my website, I lost some of my posts.
Recently, I find this Programmable Kettle from Cuisinart where I can set my choice of program to make perfect teas, I quickly decided to restart making herbal teas on regular basis as this is something I used to make but couldn’t continue.
Benefits of herbal tea
- It has calming effects.
- Boost your immune system
- Helps to reduce pain and soreness
- Can improve digestive system
- It’s Calorie Free
There are many more benefits of herbal tea but I have mentioned few.
Ingredients to make Strawberry Basil tea
Fresh Strawberry and Basil leaves – There is no alternative. Always use fresh strawberry fruit and Basil leaves to get the maximum flavors.
Ginger – Ginger also helps to improve digestion. A pinch of fresh, grated ginger helps to enhance the flavor of this tea
Tea leaves – I used regular tea leaves here however you can use green tea leaves or teabags.
Strawberry Basil herbal tea
Ingredients
- 5 nos strawberries, chopped
- ½ tablespoon tea leaves
- ½ teaspoon ginger, grated
- ¼ cup fresh basil, chopped
- 4 cups water, 1 L approx
Instructions
- Carefully put water inside your kettle. Do not add water more than 1.7L as this is the maximum capacity of cuisinart's kettle.
- choose "boil" program and press "start".
- Program will start and kettle will start increasing the temperature.
- Take a bowl and transfer chopped strawberries into it.
- add chopped basil, ginger and tea leaves.
- mix it well and gently smash strawberries using the back of the spoon.
- after 5 minutes, Kettle will beep. It indicates that water has reached to it's right temprature.
- carefully, add water into the strawberry mixture.
- Allow it to infuse the flavors for 4 minutes.
- serve hot.
Notes
- add water in a pan and bring it to boil on medium flame.
- mealwhile, prepare your strawberry mixture by adding and mixing chopped strawberries, basil, ginger and tea leaves into a bowl.
- when water started bubbling, remove the flame and mix it with strawberry mixture.
- allow it to set and infuse the flavors for 4 minutes.
- serve hot.
We love tea! And this is such a nice way to use it. Really good stuff — thanks.
Thank you so much John.
We are also big tea fans. The addition of strawberry is really delicious with the warming ginger. Stay well and take care