Easy Homemade Peach Iced Tea Recipe

This homemade peach iced tea recipe is such a treat during those hot summer months when you want something sweet and refreshing. A cooling refreshing drink using seasonal produce.

This is the perfect drink to have on hand when you have visitors over or it’s going to be an extra hot day, and you are sick of water!

I do love a good, iced tea but the shop ones have so much sugar and extra ingredients so rarely ever buy. And I would never buy the peach iced tea bags! Those are filled with numbers and artificial ingredients.

So here is a clean homemade peach iced tea recipe that is simple and delicious to make! No guilt in this tea.

Why Make Your Own Peach Iced Tea?

There are a few reasons you should make your own!

1. If you are buying peaches in season this drink is actually pretty cheap to make. Doesn’t cost very much to make a large quantity of tea.
2. It’s so much healthier than the premade ones in the fridge section at the shop or the Lipton tea bags! No numbers in this recipe.
3. You can play around with taste: You can change it up, use different types of tea bags for the base like white tea or green tea bags.
   • Add raspberries or peppermint leaves for a more complex yet very delicious taste!
   • Adjust the sugar ratio and what sweetener you want to use. Honey, maple syrup, brown sugar or raw sugar!
4. It’s extremely rewarding to make your own drink. Yes, I feel really good when I make something and everyone enjoys it.

What You Need to Make This Recipe

Supplies

1. Blender: Highly recommend a blender or food processor. Not completely necessary but really cuts down on time and helps bring out more flavour.
2. Sieve: You do want to sieve out chunks of peaches at the end
3. Measuring cups and spoons: For measuring out ingredients, helps you be more precise.

Ingredients

1. Peaches: Can’t make a peach iced tea without some lovely large juicy peaches.
2. Water: You want a lot of water for this recipe. Use filtered water, rainwater pretty much any clean water that isn’t tap water.
3. Sweetener: I like a mixture of brown sugar and raw sugar but you can choose whatever sweetener you like to make it sweet.
4. Lemon: Lemon really brings out the flavour I think and adds a bit more depth to the drink.
5. Tea: You will need several tea bags to make fresh tea as the base. I used green tea and loved it, but you can use white tea or black tea as well.
6. Peppermint leaves (optional): They add a little extra refreshing taste, and I have to say give it a beautiful look as well.

How to Make Peach Iced Tea

1. Boil 4 cups of water and pour over the tea bags. Let them sit and cool while you are preparing the peach syrup.

2. Rough chop peaches and remove the seeds.

3. Throw the peaches, sugar, water, and lemon juice in a blender and give it a 5 second blend.

4. Pour the mixture in a medium pan and cook it on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Mix it so it doesn’t burn at the bottom and don’t let it come to a rolling boil.

5. Once it’s thickened a bit pour it through a sieve into a large bowl or large Pyrex measuring cup, so the chunky pieces strain out.

6. You can then pour all of the syrup into the tea or reserve some syrup in a container in the fridge.

7. Serve in a glass and top with fresh peppermint leave and peaches for that extra delicious touch.

8. Will last about 5 days in the fridge.

Different Ways to Drink Peach Iced Tea

You can make several easy changes to this recipe to create unique and interesting flavours. Here are some ideas.

1. Use a different flavour tea bag: While I use green tea for this recipe you can try it with white tea, black tea, maybe you want to try it with matcha. Have fun with different flavour tea bags.
2. Add different fruit: To your already made peach iced tea you can add in whole pieces of berries like raspberries, blueberries and/ or blackberries for a different look and slight berry taste.
3. Try herbs: Add some peppermint leaves to the already made tea for a fresh minty flavour. Maybe some dried lavender or even chamomile for some delicious and pretty variations. Remember with eat and drink with our eyes first!

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Questions and Answers

Is peach iced tea healthy?

Peach iced tea isn’t a health drink but it’s not totally unhealthy either. It depends on the sugar you use and quantity that will determine how healthy or unhealthy it is.

Overall blended peach, tea and water aren’t really bad for you, just the type and amount of sugar. Remember everything in moderation!

Do I need to blend the peaches first?

While I highly recommend blending them first to extract the maximum amount of flavour, you do not have to blend them.

You can slice or dice your peaches up and then cook them that way to extract flavour as well.

Can I use any tea bags to make peach iced tea?

You can use a variety of tea bags to make peach iced tea! I used green tea bags, but you can play around with white tea, black tea, maybe you want to even try a chamomile tea base.

It’s just a matter of taste and what you like!

Do I need to cook the peaches first?

I highly recommend cooking your peaches for several reasons. First you it won’t turn into a syrup if someone of the liquid isn’t evaporated out.

Also cooking the peaches really enhances the overall flavour. If you want maximum flavour for your peach iced tea you will cook the peaches!