Soothing Ginger Lemon Honey Tea is not only great for you but also tastes amazingly fabulous!
In this post, I show you how to make your own homemade ginger lemon honey tea from scratch with fresh ingredients.
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TL;DR
I discovered the combination of ginger, lemon, and honey tea when I traveled across India.
India is a tea country, and tea stalls can be found on all corners, serving wonderful tea varieties, including the famous masala chai tea.
Ginger Lemon Honey Tea is a combination of these three ingredients in a hot cup. Freshly peeled and sliced ginger roots are cooked in water before it is strained and poured into a cup with freshly squeezed lemon juice and honey.
This tea may contain black tea to justify the word tea, but it's not a necessity.
The combination of ginger, lemon, and honey is an ancient Indian ayurvedic concoction.
Ingredient Notes
- Ginger — Get the freshest ginger possible. It doesn't need to be young pink ginger, just regular fresh ginger will do.
- Lemon — Indian Lemons are different. They are small, round lemons that taste somewhat like Mediterranean lemons. They look like yellow limes, but they are not lime. You can use Mediterranean (standard) lemons to make this tea.
- Water — To boil the tea infusion.
- Honey — To sweeten the tea. Please check if your honey is actual real honey and not just some glucose sugar. Most branded honey in stores is not real honey. Try this tea infusion with different types of artisanal honey if possible. I love it with lavender honey, linden honey, or mustard flower honey.
- Black Tea — Black tea is optional because technically you can make this infusion without tea bags. You might want to skip the tea bag if you are feeling sick or if you are trying to cut down on caffeine. To make it a proper “tea,” add tea bags to your prepared infusion in your cup.
Process Overview
Step 1
Cut a lemon into two and squeeze out the juice.
Peel and slice your ginger root piece.
Step 2
Place ginger root slices with water into a pot and bring to a rolling boil.
Remove from heat.
Step 3
Pour ginger water into prepared cups and strain so that you are left without ginger pieces.
Pour lemon juice into a cup and add the desired amount of honey to the cup.
You are free to infuse your lemon ginger tea further with a teabag.
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Ginger Lemon Honey Tea Recipe
Instructions
- Cut the lemon in two and extract the juice.1 Lemon
- Peel and slice ginger. Place ginger with water into a pot and heat up.1 inch Ginger Fresh
- Bring to a boil so that the ginger flavors get extracted into the water. Take it from the heat once you can see a rolling boil. If you have time, cover and leave to infuse.4 cups Water
- Strain the hot infused ginger water and discard the ginger pieces.
- Pour lemon juice into the cup. Adjust the quantity to your taste preference.
- Add a black tea bag to it if you like (optional).Black Tea Bags
- Add the desired quantity of honey.Honey
- Enjoy your tea when it's still hot for the best effect.
Nutrition
More Flavor Variations
I like to use my favorite honey when I have a sore throat, but occasionally, I just skip the honey and don't sweeten my tea at all. You can use stevia powder too.
Manuka honey or honey syrup is also a great way to sweeten ginger lemon tea.
Black tea or green tea can be added to this tea in the form of a teabag during serving time, OR you can add some loose tea leaves during the ginger boiling process.
For a spicy variation, you can add a pinch of turmeric, cayenne, or cinnamon to the boiling ginger water.
FAQs
Bring the water to a rolling boil, take the boiling ginger water from the heat, and allow the ginger to infuse the water. This can take from 10 to up to 25 minutes from start to a finished product.
Drink ginger tea after your dinner to help your digestion. I, personally, love it before going to sleep to treat indigestion, but your body might tick differently because ginger can be stimulating and might keep you awake.
Yes, you can, but when I drink ginger and lemon on an empty stomach, I usually reduce or skip honey because I feel sensitive to the sweet honey flavors. Other people, like my husband Paul and my dad, didn't feel that way, and they prefer adding honey to the tea even on an empty stomach.
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