Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, watermelon basil iced tea. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have watermelon basil iced tea using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Watermelon basil iced tea:

1. Take 4 Tea Bags
2. Prepare 4 Cups Boiling Water
3. Make ready 3 Slices Watermelon
4. Take 1/2 Cup Honey
5. Get 1/2 Cup Water
6. Get 1/4 Teaspoon Dried Basil
7. Get 2 Lime Juice

Mixed with fresh watermelon, basil and lime, this is the iced tea to end all iced teas. Carefully pour the hot water into the pitcher, over the teabags. POUR tea into ice-filled glasses, garnish with watermelon balls, lime slices and basil sprigs and serve. Southerners know how to cool down.

Steps to make Watermelon basil iced tea:

1. Add the tea bags in a glass jar, pour in boiling water and let sit for 10 minutes. Once it has cooled remove the tea leaves and put the jug in the fridge to chill for one hour
   1. Meanwhile blend the watermelon until smooth. Sieve the watermelon into a cup so that you are left with only the juice
   1. In a separate glass mix the 1/2 cup water with honey and stir until honey dissolves. Add in the dried basil and stir to mix
2. After one hour remove jug from fridge. Add in the watermelon juice and stir well. Add also the honey-water-basil mixture
3. Squeeze juice of two limes into the tea. Stir to combine well
4. Pour the watermelon basil iced tea in a mock-tail glass. You can add ice cubes for a chilled drink or you can put the iced tea in the fridge to chill further

POUR tea into ice-filled glasses, garnish with watermelon balls, lime slices and basil sprigs and serve. Southerners know how to cool down. We had to figure it out to survive. Not only are the summer months below the Mason-Dixon line just plain hot, the humidity makes it downright oppressive. That's why we drink a lot of refreshing sweet tea… and enjoy a fair share of our.

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