The Best Organic Peach Tea Recipe
A tall glass of ice cold organic peach tea is a refreshing drink that you can feel good about drinking. I want to encourage you to give this delicious peach tea recipe a try!
Hydration is important. That’s why I always make a few gallons of tea every week.
Don’t get me wrong…water is very important. But in the South, sweet tea is consumed regularly with every meal.
Even though regular black tea is popular, sometimes it’s nice to switch things up and add some variety.
That’s where this organic peach tea comes in!
How to Make Organic Peach Tea
Making tea is simply steeping dry peach tea leaves in hot or recently simmered water that has cooled down slightly. To get the full benefits of the tea, it’s best to let it steep for 15 minutes or longer.
Did you know that some popular tea packets you buy in the grocery store are often made with bleached plastic fibers?
Barbra-Sue of Kowalski Mountain did a great blog post and YouTube video of loose leaf tea vs tea bags explaining everything I never knew about traditional tea packets. And it was scary! Bottom line, you do not want to ingest the chemicals found in tea packets if you can avoid it.
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Ingredients
peach tea dry leaves – I like to get organic peach tea from Positively Tea Company.
stevia dry leaves – I also like to get dried stevia leaves from Positively Tea Company. You can buy a bulk one-pound bag to save some extra money!
water – Use good, filtered water if you can. If all you have is tap water, let a gallon of water sit out overnight so the chlorine evaporates.
sugar – This is optional, but I like to use a little bit of organic cane sugar in our sweet tea.
Tools you may need
medium stainless steel pot
measuring spoon
spatula
glass mason jars with lids (One pint jar with lid plus one gallon jar or two half-gallon jars.)
Instructions for making organic peach tea
This recipe will make one gallon of peach tea. You can double the recipe for more tea or split it in half for less tea.
Make a peach tea blend
First, make an organic peach tea blend by combining one cup of organic peach tea leaves with a quarter cup of dried stevia leaves if you want your peach tea to be sweet. If you don’t want a sweet tea, you can omit the stevia leaves.
I like to do this in advance and store my organic peach tea blend in a pint mason jar kept in my cupboard with other tea blends.
Then, shake the peach tea blend well in the jar until it is well combined and store it out of direct sunlight.
Now we have everything we need to make our organic peach tea!
Brew your peach tea
In a medium stainless steel pot, add two cups of water and let it come to a simmer or slow boil on the stove.
Then take the pot off the heat.
Next, add four tablespoons of the organic peach tea blend to the hot water and let it steep for 15 minutes.
Don’t be nervous. It looks like a lot of tea leaves in your pot but remember that you’re using loose leaf tea and not compacted and broken down tea leaf dust from ordinary tea packets.
Get out two half-gallon glass mason jars or one gallon jar. If you want sweet tea, add a quarter cup of sugar to the bottom of each jar. If you like it really sweet…use the amount of sugar that you like.
While your tea is steeping, set a stainless steel funnel into the top of one of the jars and set a fine mesh sieve over the funnel to catch the tea leaves when you’re ready to pour your tea out.
When the tea has steeped for at least 15 minutes, it’s time to pour out your tea.
If you’re using two half gallon mason jars, pour one cup of the tea liquid through the sieve and funnel into the jar. Then put the funnel and sieve over the other half-gallon jar and pour out the remaining liquid.
Using a long spatula or spoon, stir to combine the tea and sugar if you added sugar earlier.
Next, add the rest of your water to your glass jars. I love my Berkey water filter but use what you have.
Last, add lids to your jars and refrigerate your organic peach tea.
You and your family will enjoy this delicious, refreshing, organic peach tea all year long!
Tips for making organic peach tea.
#1 – You don’t want to add your peach tea leaves to actively boiling water or the tea might turn bitter.
#2 – The longer you let your peach tea steep, the stronger it will be. I like strong tea, so I usually let my tea steep for 30 minutes or longer.
#3 – You might be asking why you add sugar when you’ve already added sweet stevia leaves to your peach tea blend. I’m glad you asked!
Cane sugar is purely optional, but it does give a different sweetness to your tea than the stevia leaves bring. You can try drinking your tea with or without the stevia or sugar. Play around with the recipe and do what you like!
#4 – You can squeeze out the liquid from the tea leaves with a spoon or fork, but small leaf particles may get pushed through into your tea jars. I don’t particularly have a problem with tiny tea particles in my tea, so I squeeze the tea liquid out with a fork.
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Peach Tea
Equipment
- medium stainless steel pot
- measuring spoon
- stainless steel funnel
- fine mesh sieve
- spatula
- glass mason jars with lids (One pint jar with lid plus one gallon jar or two half-gallon jars.)
Ingredients
Organic Peach Tea Blend
- 1 cup organic peach tea dry leaves
- ¼ cup organic stevia dry leaves
Peach Tea
- 1 gallon water, divided
- 4 tbsp organic peach tea blend
- ½ cup organic sugar, divided (optional)
Instructions
Organic Peach Tea Blend
- Combine 1 cup of organic peach tea leaves and ¼ cup organic stevia leaves in a glass mason jar or other container with a lid. Shake well and store out of direct sunlight.
Peach Tea
- In a medium stainless steel pot, add 2 cups of the water and let it come to a simmer or slow boil on the stove. Then take the pot off the heat.
- Add 4 tbsp of organic peach tea blend to the hot water and let it steep for 15 minutes.
- Get out two half-gallon glass mason jars and add ¼ cup of sugar to the bottom of each jar (optional). Set a stainless steel funnel into the top of one of the jars and set a fine mesh sieve over the funnel to catch the tea leaves.
- When the tea has steeped for at least 15 minutes, pour 1 cup of the tea liquid through the sieve and funnel into the jar. Then put the funnel and sieve over the other half-gallon jar and pour the remaining liquid. You can squeeze out the liquid from the tea leaves with a spoon or fork, but small particles may get pushed through into your tea jars.
- If you added sugar, stir the tea and sugar together until well-combined. Once that is done, fill the jars with the rest of the water and stir. Then add the lids and refrigerate.
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