Tulsi tea, also known as holy basil tea, is a fragrant herbal infusion that you can easily prepare with fresh or dried leaves. Enjoy it hot for a comforting drink, or serve it iced for a refreshing alternative on warmer days.
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Besides, you can decide to make this tea by including more ingredients to prepare a detox tea, just the way I did here with the herbal tea mixture.
What is Tulsi?
You might have heard of Tulsi before. Tulsi is also called Holy Basil, as it is related to the common Italian basil and the Thai basil.
There are countless basil varieties in this world; holy basil/tulsi is just another one. The Tulsi plant grows into a shrub that emits a refreshing aroma. The leaves are bright green and delicate. They have been used in herbal tea in India for centuries.
Variety Options
There are about 4 Tulsi varieties out there. Each differs mostly from the looks, some being more green and others more purple, besides the obvious taste difference. All are suitable for preparing a herbal tea infusion.
- Rama Tulsi
- Vana Tulsi
- Krishna Tulsi
- Shyam Tulsi
The most common Tulsi variation is Rama Tulsi, those are bright green (as seen in the pictures).
📖 Recipe
Infused Tulsi Tea with Fresh or Dried Leaves (Holy Basil)
Ingredients
- 5 cups Water
- handful Tulsi Fresh or 1 ½ Tablespoon dried flaked Tulsi leaves
- 1 Tablespoon Black Tea Leaves or Green Tea leaves
- Sugar or Honey, Stevia
Instructions
- Add the Water to a Pot with the Tulsi leaves, fresh or dried and the tea leaves.
- Steep the herbs in water for 5-10 minutes.
- Strain, sweeten, enjoy.
- For Tulsi iced tea, let it cool. Serve with ice.
Nutrition
Tips
You can use fresh or dried Tulsi leaves to make this tulsi tea. You can add sugar too if you like. Just cool that tea and store it in a fridge, and you have an iced tea.
I use the same concept to prepare my fresh lemongrass tea or the mango iced tea. Tulsi variations for you to try. Just add these ingredients to the recipe below (in small doses!), mix and match yourself.
- Ginger
- Licorice roots
- White Tea (instead of green or black tea)
- Chamomile flowers
- Lemon/Lime Juice
