Nickel Allergy Friendly Herbal Arnold Palmer with Fresh Herbs

Total time45 min

Prep time10 min

Cook time5 min

Nickel Allergy Friendly Herbal Arnold Palmer with Fresh Herbs

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Ingredients

4 servings

For the herbal tea

4 cups water, divided
3 black tea bags
Lipton Black Tea, 8 oz Twinings of London Black Tea English Breakfast - 20 Count Twinings of London Black Tea English Breakfast Decaffeinated - 20 Count PG Tips Black Tea - 40 Count Stash Black Tea English Breakfast - 20 Count
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½ cup fresh mint leaves, lightly packed
¼ cup fresh basil leaves, lightly packed
Ingredient note
Herbs and spices can carry nickel, so a low nickel diet limits them, but the small amount of basil used to season this recipe is likely fine. If you prefer to always avoid basil, please tap it and change its rating to Red.
1 tbsp dried culinary lavender (optional)

For the simple syrup

½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup water

For the lemonade

¾ cup fresh lemon juice (from about 4–5 lemons)
1 ½ cups cold water

For serving

ice, for serving
fresh mint sprigs, for serving (optional)
lemon slices, for serving (optional)

Instructions

1
Bring 2 cups of the water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Remove from the heat, add the tea bags, mint leaves, basil leaves, and dried lavender (if using), and steep for 5 minutes.
2
Remove and discard the tea bags. Strain the tea through a fine-mesh strainer into a pitcher, pressing the herbs gently to extract their liquid, then discard the solids. Stir in the remaining 2 cups of cold water and let the tea cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes.

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