Hot Rose Hip Tea with Honey

Do you need a cold and flu home remedy? Try this delicious and completely different warming tea. Honey and chili have anti-microbial and stimulating properties, lemon and rose hips are rich of Vitamin C and ginger is known to have expectorant properties. What do you wait for? Perhaps you have all the ingredients in the kitchen!

For one cup you need:

• 1 rose hip tea bags (alternative 1 teaspoon dried rose hip)
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 inch ginger, thinly sliced
• 1 pinch chili (to taste)
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1/2 lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons honey

Preparation

1. Bring water in a small saucepot with rose hip to boil and let simmer 10 minutes.
2. During this time slice the ginger.
3. Add chili ginger and chili to the rose hip tea. Cover and keep warm for about 10 minutes.
4. Finally add lemon juice and honey.
5. Remove the tea bag, pour into the cup and serve.

Note: if you have a small thermos put the ginger, chili, honey and lemon juice in the thermos, add rose hip tea and let soak. You can also grate the ginger and place it in a teabag to remove it easily.

Releted theme: Rose Hip Harvest

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