Soothing Honey-Lemon Ginger Tea

Try this soothing honey lemon ginger tea as a relief to all your winter woes – cold, cough and flu. This honey ginger tea is millions times better than any store bought cough syrups. It takes minutes to make and tasty to drink. Drink a cup of this tea everyday.

Lemon ginger tea

1. Detoxifying drink that is both delicious and good for you. Drinking tea first thing in the morning to feel rejuvenated.
2. We call it cold and flu tea which helps soothes itchy throat or stuffy nose.
3. Best homemade remedy to fight nasty cold, coughs and sniffles. It sure helps you get back to feeling your best when you are down under the weather.
4. Flu season is upon us, drink a glass or two of lemon ginger tea every day to keep your body warm inside out.
5. Healing ginger tea is also a great stress buster and keeps you hydrated. It’s also believed to boost immunity.
6. 3 main ingredients of this drink is ginger, lemon and honey. You can add in some of the other natural healing ingredients like turmeric, cayenne, crushed pepper too.
7. A tea that is great all-year-long.

Ingredients needed

Here’s what you need-

• 4 cups filtered water
• 4 inch ginger
• 1 lemon sliced
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 to 2 tablespoon organic honey (adjust to suit your taste preference)
• 1 cinnamon stick

To garnish

• Lemon slices
• Fresh mint leaves

How to make honey lemon ginger tea

You can start off with green tea base and steep in ginger and lemon in it. Or boil water and steep grated or chopped ginger and lemon slices for about 15 to 20 minutes.

Bring water to rapid boil. While water boils, grate or slice ginger.

Turn off heat, add ginger to water. Cover and let it steep.

Note: I prefer not to add lemon (both juice and slices) to hot water as it turns bitter. I always add lemon slices after tea is steeped and just when serving.

You can add slices of lemon along with ginger if you don’t mind slightly bitter tea.

Once the tea has steeped, filter it out to remove all ginger and lemon slices.

Squeeze in lemon juice into serving cups, pour tea, add organic honey as per your taste.

Stir with cinnamon stick to get hint of cinnamon flavor in the tea.

Serve warm with lemon slice and fresh mint leaves.

You could also pour in raw honey and lemon juice to steeped tea. Stir in. Pour the whole thing into thermos and sip it all day long.

Useful tips

1. Adding grated ginger to steep tea gives strong ginger flavor to the tea. If you don’t like the strong flavor of ginger, you can roughly chop ginger and add to boiling water so the flavor is mild.
2. Lemon ginger tea is best when you drink it hot. You can drink the tea at room temperature but it won’t taste the same. To warm tea reheat the steeped tea slightly on low heat. DO NOT re boil the tea, it will turn bitter.
3. If you prefer green tea base use green tea bags (or tea leaves) and steep along in ginger and lemon slices.
4. Though left over tea can be stored for 4-6 days in refrigerator, I highly recommend you make a fresh batch each time. Reheat on low heat (NOT BOIL) when you want to serve.

Honey ginger tea benefits

This tea is soothing magical elixir, there are so many natural health benefits you get from the drink.

1. Ginger – works as an detoxifier helping remove all the unwanted chemicals from our body. It’s also considered to help reduce inflammation. It’s acts to aid in nutrient absorption, clear sinus, helps with menstrual pain and cramps. Ginger root works as immunity booster, suppress your appetite and fires up your metabolism.
2. Lemon – For all those who detox their body regularly know that lemon is the key ingredient in any detox drink. Lemon is rich with vitamin C, and is natural antioxidant. It’s great to boost immune system and help in prevention of cold and flu. Lemon also freshens your breath and improves in skin and hair.
3. Raw Honey – Unprocessed or unfiltered honey is raw honey. Unprocessed raw honey has all the nutritional benefits intact in it. Raw honey is a source of antioxidants. It also has anti fungal and antibacterial properties. Honey helps soothe an itchy throat and cough. Pro-Tip: While purchasing honey, make sure to buy raw honey. Traditional honey are mostly processed honey that are pasteurized and refined with chemicals. This simply means the honey is NO GOOD and all it’s natural health promoting properties are removed.
4. Cinnamon – is believed to aid in digestion, plus it’s an amazing immune booster, an anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, an antioxidant and more. All the wonderful power packed ingredients put together can only make the drink so good and healthy, you’ll want to drink it every day. And trust me, you should be drinking it every day.

Please Note: I’m no doctor or an health expert. I’m simply sharing facts and information pertaining to the health benefits of lemon ginger detox tea ingredients on commonly available information based on my research online. Consider this as a rough guide. Consult an health expert or a doctor if you like to know more about the exact benefits and how it might help/affect you.

While there are so many health benefits of lemon ginger detox tea, here are top 10 benefits that I think is the most important ones.

1. Helps fight cold, sniffles and cough.
2. Boosts your immune system.
3. Instant relief from nausea and indigestion.
4. Improves blood circulation.
5. Eases menstrual discomfort and provides pain relief.
6. Lowers the effect of diabetics.
7. Beautiful healthy hair and flawless skin.
8. Lemon ginger tea for weight loss – Apt drink for weight-loss, as it helps reduce cholesterol levels.
9. Drink to calm your stress and keep you energetic.
10. Prevention for cardio vascular diseases and stroke.

Variations of honey lemon ginger tea

Lemon, ginger and honey forms the base of tea. If you are looking for more variations of this amazing lemon ginger herbal tea try these-

Lemon ginger garlic tea – along with lemon and ginger add garlic while steeping the tea. Garlic is also believed to have many health promoting benefits.

Lemon ginger turmeric tea – this is something I make most often especially when fresh turmeric is available in the market. I add fresh chopped (grated) turmeric and steep the tea.

Apple and cinnamon lemon ginger tea – place a few pieces and apples and cinnamon stick along with ginger and lemon to brew your fresh tea. Apple and cinnamon accentuates its warm and comforting aspects.

Lemon ginger cayenne pepper tea – A generous sprinkle for cayenne pepper to garlic and lemon and brew your tea. This is for those who don’t mind extra kick in their tea. The spiciness of cayenne pepper helps with flushing out phlegm.

Side effect & precautions

It’s advisable to consume 2 to 3 cups of the tea in a day. Drinking more might give you side effects.

Consuming too much ginger in any form might cause diarrhea, vomiting and nausea.

It’s not advisable to feed children below 2 years raw ginger and raw honey.

TRY OTHER DRINKS TOO

Check these out –

• Detox infused water
• Hibiscus tea
• Lemon iced tea
• Instant pot apple cider
• Anti-inflammatory golden milk

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📋Soothing Honey-Lemon Ginger Tea

Try this soothing lemon ginger tea as a relief to all your winter woes cold, cough and flu. Learn how to make this simple detoxifying drink with step-by-step photos and quick video tutorial along with all the health benefits of the drink.

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Course: Drinks

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 4 cups

Calories: 15kcal

Author: Jyothi Rajesh

Ingredients

• ▢ 4 cups filtered water
• ▢ 4 inch ginger
• ▢ 2 tablespoon lemon juice freshly squeezed
• ▢ 1 to 2 tablespoon organic honey
• ▢ 1 cinnamon stick

To garnish

• ▢ Lemon slices
• ▢ Fresh mint leaves

Instructions

• Bring 4 cups of water to boil.
• While water is boiling, you can clean ginger root. Scrub and wash ginger. Do not bother peeling the skin if you are going to strain it out like me. If you are planning to drink it as it is, peel the skin on ginger root.
• Slice ginger into thin slices. Or you can grate it as well.
• Once water starts boiling, turn off the heat. Add ginger, lemon slices (if using lemon to steep in the tea).
• Cover and let it steep for 30 minutes.
• Strain and drink it at room temperature as it is. Or warm it up and serve.
• I prefer to add lemon juice to steeped tea as per my taste preference. Add raw honey for sweetened tea – that’s my preference.
• So to serve like the way I did – steeped and strained tea in tea kettle.
• Into individual serving cup, squeeze lemon juice. Pour hot ginger lemon tea. Add raw honey to your taste preference.
• Stir it with cinnamon stick. Garnish with a lemon slice and mint leaves. Serve.

Video

Notes

1. Adding grated ginger to steep tea gives strong ginger flavor to the tea. If you don’t like the strong flavor of ginger, you can roughly chop ginger and add to boiling water so the flavor is mild.
2. Lemon ginger tea is best when you drink it hot. You can drink the tea at room temperature but it won’t taste the same. To warm tea reheat the steeped tea slightly on low heat. DO NOT re boil the tea, it will turn bitter.
3. If you prefer green tea base use green tea bags (or tea leaves) and steep along in ginger and lemon slices.
4. Though left over tea can be stored for 4-6 days in refrigerator, I highly recommend you make a fresh batch each time. Reheat on low heat (NOT BOIL) when you want to serve.

 

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 15kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 0g | Fat: 0g | Saturated Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 14mg | Potassium: 66mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 0g | Vitamin C: 14.7mg | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 0.2mg

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