Sweet Tea Recipe
This easy sweet tea recipe is super smooth and refreshing! You'll want to keep a pitcher of this southern sweet tea in the fridge all summer long.
Servings 8
Ingredients
- 6 black tea bags
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup stevia (or your favorite sugar alternative)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (use 3/4 to 1 1/2 cups depending on taste)
- 6 lemon slices (optional)
- 6 cups cold water (or use 2 cups ice and 4 cups cold water)
- additional ice and lemon slices for serving
Instructions
- Put six tea bags in a small glass pitcher and pour two cups of hot water over the top of them. Cover and steep for 15 minutes. Remove the tea bag (without squeezing them) and discard.
- Stir baking soda into the tea to make is super SMOOTH.
- Stir in the sugar of your choice. For diet sweet tea: Use 1/2 cup of stevia for a diet sweet tea. Or for regular sweet tea: use granulated sugar. Depending on how sweet you like it you can add 3/4 to 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar.
- If you want to use lemon in your tea, put the lemon wedges in the bottom of a 2-quart pitcher.
- If you are in a hurry and want to cool off the tea quickly, put two cups of ice on top of the lemons.
- Pour the sweet tea concentrate from the small pitcher into the large one.
- Next, pour cold water into the pitcher and stir. If you added ice, only add 4 cups of cold water. If you did not add ice, add 6 cups of cold water.
- Serve chilled with ice and lemon wedges.
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