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You can’t have summer in the South without a jar of ice cold sweet tea. If you are up for a little bit of foraging, you can customize your tea this summer. There are tons of edible herbs, flowers, and weeds that make yummy and healthy additions for hot and cold drinks alike. Our yard is full of dandelions and clover so my foraging adventures have been focused on those two plants. My kids LOVE to pick flowers, weeds, herbs, grass, and anything else they can get their little dirt-covered hands on so I sent them out to pick a basket of white clover for me. I played around with the clover and different herbs to put a yummy twist on this Southern summertime favorite! Read on for my recipe for White Clover Iced Tea with Mint & Honey.
*If you have severe allergies, please be cautious with this recipe.
White Clover Iced Tea with Mint & Honey Recipe
Never tried clover? No need to worry!
Clover is surprisingly sweet. It has a light grassy flavor that is perfect to refresh and hydrate you on a hot summer day!
White Clover Iced Tea Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup dried clover blossoms
- 2 cups water
- 2 mint sprigs + 1 for garnish
- raw local honey
- ice cubes
- saucepan
- flour sack towel, muslin cloth, or reusable tea bag
White Clover Iced Tea Directions:
- Gather clover from your yard then rinse & dehydrate the blossoms. You can dehydrate clover in a dehydrator, the oven, or in a solar oven (my favorite). Check out this post for a step-by-step tutorial on foraging and dehydrating white clover blossoms.
- Measure out 1/2 cup of dried clover blossoms.
- Place the dehydrated clover blossoms and the sprigs of fresh mint onto a flour sack towel, muslin cloth, or a tea bag.
- Boil 2 cups of water in a medium saucepan.
- Remove the water from the heat and allow the clover and mint to steep in the hot water for 3-5 minutes. Steep longer for a stronger flavor.
- Pour the freshly brewed clover tea into a mason jar & add 1-2 TBSP of raw local honey.
- Add 4-5 ice cubes and garnish with another mint sprig.
- Enjoy cold or as a hot tea… Just pour the tea straight from the stove into a tea cup and drink it up 🙂
This refreshing beverage doesn’t take the place of our staple Southern sweet tea, but it does offer a light and refreshing alternative if you want to switch things up a bit!
Have you ever used white clover in your food or drinks?
White Clover Iced Tea
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dried clover blossoms
- 2 cups water
- 3 mint sprigs
- 1-2 TBSP raw honey
- ice cubes
Instructions
- Gather clover from your yard, then rinse & dehydrate the blossoms.
- Place the 1/2 cup of dried clover blossoms and 2 sprigs of fresh mint onto a flour sack towel, muslin cloth, or tea bag.
- Boil 2 cups of water in a saucepan
- Remove the water from heat & allow the clover and mint to steep in the hot water for 3-5 minutes. Steep longer for a stronger flavor.
- Pour the freshly brewed tea into a mason jar & add 1-2 TBSP of raw, local honey.
- Add 4-5 ice cubes & garnish with another mint sprig. Enjoy!
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Thank you!! I have been wondering what I can do with all this beautiful white clover that I am seeing all over the place but I just haven’t taken the time to actually look it up. This looks delicious. 🙂
My favourite kind of tea…
It’s so yummy!
I loved your customized version of iced tea. It was very timely as I was thinking on what to do with the mint from my herb garden. Luckily, I was able to get score some dried clover blossoms from a friend.
This is definitely the perfect twist to our summertime tea.