Plant profiles – Tiger Shakti

Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a good day! In today’s post, I am going to show you how you can make mint tea with your home grown mint! Let’s get started!

Mint tea is such a good way to warm up in the long winter months. Just imagine making a cup of warm mint tea and curling up on the couch to watch the snow fall. 🙂 We don’t even wait for the cold months to come before we drink mint tea, we drink it in the summer too! Anyways, here are the steps on how to make mint tea.

Step #1: Get your mint.

To make mint tea, you can use dry mint, or fresh mint. The only thing is, when you make mint tea with freshly picked mint, it is not as good as if you make mint tea with dried mint. (So we prefer to make mint tea with dried mint.) Check out some posts I did on how to dry herbs HERE.

The other good thing about using dried mint for your tea, is that you can cut and dry your mint in the summer, and then you can used your dried mint all through out the winter.

Step 2: Warm up your water

We warm up our water to about 190 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 3: put your mint in!

We like to use these cups for making mint tea for one person, but you can use a tea pot too!

Step 4: Pour and wait!

Once you have your mint in your pot and you water at 190 degrees Fahrenheit, you can pour your how water through the mint into your tea cup/pot till your mint is covered with water.

Now, all you have to do is wait! For dried mint, we like to let our mint steep for about 3 minutes. Feel free to test out different steeping times though!

Finally, once your tea had steeped to the point where you like how it tastes, take out your mint strainer and enjoy!

Hello everybody! I hope you are having a good day! Today I want to share with you how you can make mint water with your homegrown mint! Let’s get started!

Mint water is so refreshing and a great summer drink! It is so easy to make as well! Here is what you have to do to make your own mint water.

Step one: Pick your mint.

I used about three sprigs of mint and I used a mix of spearmint and common mint!

Only pick the mint that you need. To determine how much mint you need to pick, bring your water cup or bottle, (which ever one you want to use) and use that to see how much mint you can fit in it. You can also just pick a small bundle of mint instead of bringing your cup out to measure.

As for what type of mint to use, you can use pretty much any type of mint that you like the taste of.

For example,when we pick our mint to make mint water, we usually only make mint water with common mint and spearmint, since we don’t like the taste of chocolate mint that much.

But if you like the taste of chocolate mint, go right ahead and use it to make your mint water!

Step two: Clean your mint

Now that you have your mint, it’s time to clean it! Hold your mint in your hands under running water like a hose or your tap.

Make sure you get all of the dirt off!

Step 3: Fill your cup!

It’s as easy as it sounds! All you have to do now is take your mint and put it in your water bottle or cup and add water!

If it’s hot outside, sometimes it’s nice to put some ice in your mint water too!

Notes

If you are using a water bottle, don’t use a really nice one with a fancy cap so mint doesn’t get stuck in it!

You can refill your water when it is finished without having to pick new mint, but make sure you throw your mint out after a couple days so it doesn’t go bad!

Mint water is easier to make and drink in a water bottle with a cage thingy like this:

Or in a cup with a lid like this:

But it you don’t have a water bottle or a lidded cup, do not worry! A normal cup will still work fine!

Alright! That is it for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it! Make sure you check out our mason jar herb garden posts Here so you can grow your own mint even if you don’t have a yard! Bye!