Kiwi green tea cooler

Posted on | June 9, 2008 | | Printer Friendly

The good news is our air conditioner works. The bad news? The cat is scared of it and he pouted all.day.long. on Sunday. Even ice cubes in his water bowl didn’t seem to cheer him up. Too bad he couldn’t enjoy these kiwi lime coolers like we did. Um.. how did we go through the ENTIRE pitcher in one day?

I had a recipe clipped from Delicious magazine, but I did a few substitutions - I always find there’s too much sugar in homemade iced teas and drinks so I reduced it by half. And you know what? You’d never know. Also, their recipe didn’t call for any green tea and I thought it would make the drink taste a little more grown up and less like … well… kiwi juice. And it worked!

Boyrfiendly rating: 5/5 “Yum!”

Ingredients:

6 green kiwis
1/4 cup sugar
1.5-ish cups of boiling water
1 green tea bag (I used Tazo “Zen”)
1/3 cup lime juice
sparkling water (I used lime flavoured)
Fresh mint

Boil water and add tea bag and sugar. Stir to dissolve sugar. Let tea steep for 5 minutes. Remove tea bag and add roughly chopped kiwis and lime juice. Using a hand blender, blend the mixture until smooth. Add ice cubes or let chill in the fridge until cool. When ready to serve, pour about half of the kiwi mixture into a glass and then top up with your sparkling water and fresh mint. Relax!

Category: Drinks

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