- Level
- easy
- Prep Time
- 5 mins
- Total Time
- 15 mins
Description
Makes: 1 ½ cups (375 ml)
After baking apple pies, do you always end up with a mountain of apple peels on the counter? Before tossing them in the compost, use them to create a delicious herbal tea made of apple peels and cores, flavoured with mint and honey.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups
- water
- 375 ml
- 1
- apple, peel and core only (see Chef’s tip)
- 1
- thin slice lemon or long piece of lemon zest, removed with a vegetable peeler (see Chef’s tip)
- 4
- mint leaves (see Chef’s tip)
- 1 tsp
- honey, or more to taste
- 5 ml
Directions
- Step 1
- In a small pot, bring the water, apple peel, apple core and lemon slice to a boil. Press on the fruits with a potato masher. Remove from the heat. Add the mint leaves and let infuse for 5 minutes. Strain the mixture into a mug. Add the honey and mix well.
Tips
Chef’s tip
- Take the time to wash the apple and lemon thoroughly before using them. We suggest buying organically grown fruit for this recipe. Apples with red peels, such as Cortland, make a lovely pink herbal tea. Pear, peach and apricot peels make excellent substitutes for apple in this recipe.
- Before juicing a lemon, take the time to remove the zest with a fine grater or vegetable peeler. The zest if full of flavour and freezes very well.
- The mint can be replaced with other herbs or aromatics such as thyme, lemon balm or even dried hibiscus flowers.
