Blueberry Iced Tea
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Blueberry Iced Tea is a must for summer parties or cookouts. Made with black tea, homemade blueberry syrup and fresh lemon juice, this blueberry sweet tea is fruity, refreshing and quick to make – ideal for any warm day.
Why This Recipe is So Good
- This lemon blueberry tea is perfect for the summer time! Use up fresh summer ripe berries or frozen ones to make the blueberry syrup then serve everything over ice with fresh mint!
- It’s a fun flavored tea made with real blueberries and no artificial colors or flavors. Many store-bought iced teas can have a strong artificial taste to them. Which isn’t what we want. This blueberry tea is flavored with real fruit and sugar and tastes amazing.
- Double or triple this iced blueberry tea recipe to make enough for a party. You can make the tea up to 2 days ahead of time. Add ice just before serving.
Recipe Ingredients
Black tea – Use a strong black tea like Lipton or English Breakfast. I would avoid Earl Grey because the added bergamot might throw off the taste of the blueberry syrup and lemon.
Blueberry syrup – This simple syrup is made with fresh or frozen blueberries, sugar and water. It will sweeten the iced tea while adding a delicious fruity blueberry flavor.
Lemon juice – Iced sweet tea is not complete without a touch of lemon.
How to Make Blueberry Iced tea
All ingredients, measurements, and instructions are in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
Make tea: Add tea bags into a large pitcher with boiling hot water. Cover the pitcher and allow it to steep for 10 minutes. Discard tea bags then allow the tea to cool to room temperature.
Add blueberry syrup to taste and the juice of 1 lemon.
Serve blueberry tea over ice and enjoy!
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Blueberry Iced Tea
Equipment
- Glass cups with glass straws
- Small saucepot
Ingredients
Blueberry simple syrup
- 1 cup blueberries fresh or frozen
- ½ cup white granulated sugar or cane sugar
- ½ cup filtered water
Iced blueberry tea
- 4 black tea bags
- 4 cups hot water
- ¾ – 1 cup blueberry syrup or sweetened to taste
- Juice of ½ lemon or to taste
- Ice for serving
Instructions
Make Blueberry Syrup
- Cook syrup. Add 1 cup blueberries, ½ cup white granulated sugar and ½ cup filtered water into a small sauce pot. Cook on medium-low heat for 10 – 15 minutes or until it reaches a gentle simmer. Remove the pot from the heat then allow the syrup to cool covered for 30 minutes.
- Strain blueberry syrup using a fine mesh strainer into a pint sized mason jar. Allow it to cool to room temperature before refrigerating or use immediately to make sweet tea. Note: This recipe yields a little under 1 cup of blueberry syrup.
Make Iced Blueberry Tea
- To a large pitcher add 4 black tea bags and 4 cups hot water. Cover the pitcher and allow it to steep for 10 minutes. Discard tea bags then allow the tea to cool to room temperature.
- Add ¾ – 1 cup blueberry syrup to taste and the Juice of ½ lemon or to taste.
- Serve over ice and enjoy!
Notes
How To Store/ Make Ahead
- Blueberry iced tea is best enjoyed with 2 – 3 days of making it, but it can last up to 5 days in the fridge. As sweet tea sits in the fridge the flavor will start to change a little.
- Store any leftover blueberry syrup airtight container for up to 2 weeks in the fridge.
Tips and Tricks
- If using fresh blueberries first discard any bad-looking ones then rinse really well before cooking.
- Mash the blueberries with a spoon when straining to get some more of the flavor out.
- Simple syrup alternative: If you don’t want to make a blueberry syrup dissolve the sugar into the hot brewed black tea. Mash ½ – 1 cup of fresh or frozen and thawed blueberries with a fork or potato masher or in a food processor to break them down then combine the cooled tea. The blueberry flavor won’t be as strong but it will still be delicious.
Variations
- Add fresh mint to the blueberry syrup or muddle a few leaves to add to each glass.
- Include ½ teaspoon of dried lavender buds in the blueberry syrup for a different flavor.
- Swap out black tea for green tea in this recipe for a lighter tea flavor.
