Sunday, January 29, 2012

Te Frio de Yerba Buena (Cold Mint Tea)


Ingredients:
-1 big bunch of fresh mint leaves (washed and cleaned well)
-16 cups of water
-3/4 cups sugar (more or less to taste)

Directions:
Bring water to a boil, add mint leaves, boil for 10 minutes uncovered.Now when it changes color, shock it with a cup of cold or room temperature water this will make the color deepen stronger when it comes back to boil for another 5 minutes.Turn of heat, let it cool a bit, put in large pitchers making sure to strain it to get the leaves out of the tea.Add sugar to taste, and chill in the fridge :)