Oak Alley's Sweet Mint Iced Tea

Total Time: 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 cups water
• 6 sprigs fresh mint
• 2 family-size tea bags
• 1/2 cup sugar (to taste)
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• crushed ice
• fresh mint sprig (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 put the water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil. add the mint sprigs and boil for 3 minutes.
• 2 strain the mixture and pour all but 1 cup into a pitcher. add the tea bags and steep for 5-10 minutes. remove tea bags.
• 3 to the remaining cup of mint water add sugar to taste and stir to dissolve.
• 4 add this mixture to the pitcher with lemon juice.
• 5 cool before serving over ice and garnish with fresh mint.