Our soothing Honey And Lemon Drink is a delicious, refreshing and comforting lemon tea recipe with a twist of warming ginger.
When I’m suffering with a cold or sore throat, or just feeling under the weather in the midst of flu season, then I make myself this lovely soothing honey and lemon drink with a kick or warming ginger.
Lemon tea is the ideal hot beverage for soothing the throat or just as a nicecaffeine free warming honey tea drink to sip on a wintery day. And makes a nice change from black tea.
A hot honey drink is just super comforting and delicious, the ginger is a good for giving immunity boost, fresh lemon juice is a great source of vitamin C and its a really simple remedy to make too.
Hot Lemon Honey Tea Recipe
Prep Time – 5 minutes
Brew Time – 5-10 minutes
Total Time – around 15 minutes
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Ingredients For Hot Honey And Lemon Drink
You’ll just need four ingredients to brew up a cup of soothing honey lemon tea.
- Root Ginger – thumb sized piece of ginger – peeled and coarsely grated
- Half a lemon – juiced
- 1-2 tsp honey – if I’m under the weather I usually use Manuka honey for my honey and lemon drink
- Boiling water – to fill up the cup
Note – this drink isn’t suitable for children under one year old because it contains honey which can cause botulism in babies and young children.
Equipment Needed
- Kettle
- 2 Cups
- Sharp Knife
- Chopping Board
- Lemon Juicer
- Grater
- Teaspoon
- Sieve
How To Make Honey And Lemon Drink
Step By Step Instructions – It’s super easy to make our delicious lemon tea, you’ll have your hands wrapped around the mug in no time.
Step One – boil the water ready to make the honey tea
- Put the kettle on to boil the water.
Step Two – prepare all the ingredients for the honey and lemon tea drink
- Add the coarsely grated ginger to a cup.
- Pour over the boiling water, filling the cup about 3/4 full.
- Allow the ginger to steep in the boiling water for five minutes so that all the lovely gingery pulp flavours the hot water.
- After five minutes pour the water through a sieve into a fresh cup. This will remove the chunks of ginger from your lemon tea.
Step Three – sweeten the lemon tea with honey
- Add the lemon juice to the ginger infused water.
- Sweeten the lemon and ginger tea with a teaspoon or two of honey.
- Stir the honey and lemon drink well to combine all the flavours.
Benefits Of Honey And Lemon
There’s lots of ways that honey and lemon are supposed to be beneficial, from aiding digestions to soothing coughs and colds – find out more here about how it benefits the immune system.
How To Serve Honey Lemon Tea
You can serve the lemon tea as a soothing drink to help ease coughs and colds.
Or, alternatively this is also nice chilled with ice as a refreshing summer drink.
More Fruity Drinks To Try
If you like fruity water then you’ll love these delicious, refreshing drinks
- Homemade Lemon Barley Water – a delicious, old-fashioned recipe that’s as good today as ever! This is especially nice when feeling under the weather and wanting a comforting cool drink.
- Lemon And Lime Fruit Infused Water – refreshing zingy cooling water – these are great for water bottle infusions too. Zesty and refreshing.
- Strawberry And Cucumber Infused Water – juice, fruity infused water recipe – this is a great water fruit infusion for summer – it’s really feel good and healthy.
- Hot Vimto – a warming, cosy wintery drink to wrap your hands around!
Soothing Honey And Lemon Drink
Yield: Serves 1
Prep Time: 6 minutes
Total Time: 6 minutes
A soothing recipe for honey and lemon tea with a ginger twist
Ingredients
- Thumb sized piece of root ginger - peeled and grated
- Half a lemon - juiced
- 2 tsp honey
- 1 cup boiling water
Instructions
- Put the kettle on to boil the water.
- Add the coarsely grated ginger to a cup.
- Pour over the boiling water, filling the cup about 3/4 full.
- Allow the ginger to steep in the boiling water for five minutes so that all the lovely gingery pulp flavours the hot water.
- After five minutes pour the water through a sieve into a fresh cup. This will remove the chunks of ginger from your lemon tea.
- Add the lemon juice to the ginger infused water.
- Sweeten the lemon and ginger tea with a teaspoon or two of honey.
- Stir the honey and lemon drink well to combine all the flavours.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 1 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 78Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 15mgCarbohydrates: 21gFiber: 2gSugar: 13gProtein: 1g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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