Elderberry Tea Recipe
This flavorful tea is amazing both hot and iced. Enjoy it for its tart, fruity flavor, or for its many health benefits.
Servings: 1 cup
Calories: 5kcal
Equipment
- 1 tea cup
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon elderberries
- 1 cup hot water
- sweetener of choice
Optional Ingredients
- 1 dehydrated orange slice
- 2 cardamom pods
- 2 whole cloves
- ½ cinnamon stick
- 1 piece crystalized ginger
Instructions
Tea By the Cup
- Add dried or freeze-dried elderberries to a disposable tea bag or tea basket. Pour boiling water over the elderberries and steep for 5 minutes.
- Add a dehydrated orange slice, cinnamon stick or your favorite fall spices if you'd like. Remove tea basket and sweeten tea with your favorite sweetener, or enjoy as is if you prefer your tea tart!
Tea By the Pot
- Add ¼ cup of dehydrated or freeze-dried elderberries to a teapot. You can also add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom pods, ginger etc. Pour boiling water over them. Bring to a boil then simmer, over low heat, for a minimum of 15 minutes.
- Strain elderberry tea into your tea cup. Stir elderberry syrup or a low-calorie sweetener into your tea and enjoy!
Notes
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- When foraging elderberries, be sure to pick only ripe elderberries and avoid any green or unripe berries which contain a higher amount of alkaloids and glycosides.
- Since we're using dried or frozen elderberries, the toxins have been eliminated in the drying process, so a shorter steeping time is just fine!
- Make sure you remove any elderberry stems or leaves that may have been dried with the berries before steeping. The elderberry stems and leaves actually contain higher concentrations of alkaloids and glycosides than the berries do.
- I really recommend trying this as a refreshing iced tea too!
- For an even more flavorful brew, try steeping elderberries alongside elderflower, chamomile, peppermint, or any other herbs or herbal tea you like.
- One of the benefits of sweetening the tea with elderberry syrup is that you may not need to add additional spices since most of them are already used in my elderberry syrup recipe.
- The more berries you add and the longer you steep the tea, the darker the tea will be!
Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 5kcal | Carbohydrates: 0g | Protein: 0g | Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 0mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 0g
