We love the Starbucks green ice tea, and love the health benefits of green tea. Honestly, I have never liked green tea till I tried this one. Our family enjoyed drinking this tea so much, and couldn’t afford to get it from Starbucks all the time. I wanted to find a way to make it from home, and to sweeten it with a natural sweetener.
You can easily make the same iced tea as Starbucks and save lots of money!
What you will need:
- Water
- 5 Tazo “Zen” Green Tea Bags. This tea has lemongrass and a touch of spearmint, I believe that is what makes this tea taste so good! This is the exact tea as Starbucks uses, but they sell theirs in expensive tins. You can find this boxed tea at your local grocery store, for less.
- 2-3 Tbsp of Agave OR 1/4 cup sugar of your choice.
Directions For Starbucks Green Ice Tea Recipe
*This method of making starbucks tea is similar to making any brewed sweet iced tea, and will work with any other kind of tea.
1. Fill a 2 quart pan 3/4 full with water and bring to a rolling boil.
2. Remove pan from heat, and add 5 tea bags. I keep the tags on and hold them in my hand, then I stir them and “dunk” them in the water.
If you are adding any granulated sugar you will need to stir it in now, so it can dissolve.
3. Let tea bags steep in water for about an hour, or till cooled down to a luke warm temperature.
4. Once the tea steeps remove the tea bags and pour the strong tea mixture into a 2 quart pitcher.
5. Fill the pitcher the rest of the way with cold water and stir.
6. Stir in 2-3 Tbsp of Agave Nectar or sugar.
7. Refrigerate until cold.
That is it! So easy, healthy and delicious. Viola! You’re own Starbucks green ice tea.
Related posts:
Mmmm, Denise, this sounds good! I like green tea, too, but I almost never drink it. And it’s GOOD for you! I’ll have to give your recipe a try.
Ohh this sounds yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipe:)
Love their tea! Thanks for the recipe! Do you know how to take it one step further and make their passion lemonade version using this tea? That’s my favorite!
No but now you have challenged me. I have a friend who works at Starbucks and I will try to ask her and see what I can do!
For anyone wanting to know- I found the answer to Karen’s question above on Yahoo answers. This gives an explanation of how to make the Starbucks Passion Lemonade Tea. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080715195147AAiofw0
That sounds delicious!! I’m going to try it and I use Agave all the time.
Blessings,
Cyndi
I have some of this tea making right now…didn’t know the Agave came in light…Can’t wait to try it.
I Love green tea.
Thank you so much for this! I can’t wait to try it and be able to have sweet tea again. Being a diabetic I have to watch the sweeteners that I use, but it looks like you have come to my rescue with Agave. I can’t thank you enough and I can’t wait to try this!!!!!
I make ice-tea all the time but it is time for me to buy more tea bags. This looks wonderfully healthy so I think I will get this kind of tea and give it a try!! Thank!!
I have really been enjoying your blog today on and off.
I LOVE their ice green tea, but was not sure of the amount of tea bags to use, so thanks!
Will steeping it for an hour cause it to taste bitter?
I have never had the Starbucks green iced tea but we make green tea daily using our iced tea maker and sweetening with stevia. I’ll get some Tazo bags and try it.
can one use honey vs Agave Nectar?
So I would assume if you prefer the unsweetened version then you could skip the agave, right? I just want to make sure that’s purely for sweetening and not a “must” for the recipe. Thanks so much!