How to Make Lavender Tea
Lavender tea has a lot of health benefits, which make it recommended to be taken as frequent as possible. For this, it would help if you knew how to make it yourself. Lavender tea can be made using tea bags or loose flowers. The flower buds can be fresh from your garden or dried for added shelf life.
Although loose tea blends are preferable to tea bags. Loose tea offers fresher flavor and tends to contain better quality flowers and buds than tea bag varieties.
When it comes to brewing lavender tea using flowers from your garden, there are a few things to take note of. Firstly, it’s best to cultivate them using organic methods to avoid contamination with chemical and harsh fertilizers. This is because these chemicals can find their way into your tea and cause harm to your health.
It is also best and advised that you grow lavender flowers away from main roads and other potential environmental contaminants.
Recipe ingredients for lavender tea
- 8 oz of water (Spring or filtered)
- 2 tablespoons fresh lavender buds or dried lavender flowers
- Tea pincer or infuser
Steps to make lavender tea
- Bring water to a rolling boil in a large saucepan.
- Put the fresh lavender flowers in a tea infuser basket or tea pincer and place in a teacup.
- Pour the boiling water into the cup
- Soak the lavender flowers in the hot water for 8 to 10 minutes. The longer you soak it for, the stronger the flavor will become.
- Then remove the tea infuser or strain the loose flowers using a fine mesh strainer.
- Your lavender tea is then made. You can enjoy it as it is or add flavorings such as honey, sugar, or lemon.
Lavender can also be used to make oil and other supplements. These also have their health benefits, although there’s no standardized dose for supplements, and lavender oil should be used with caution. Ensure to never by any means ingest lavender oil.