Gardeners Peppermint tea. 🌱 (and how to easily dry your garden herbs)

Peppermint tea made of real peppermint leaves from the garden is one of my all time favourites. ❤️

Peppermint isn’t just tasty and have a wonderful aroma and scent it also has soothing and cooling effects it helps digestion and makes you feel more comfortable after eating a heavy meal.

And if you wonder why people of Northern Africa drink sweet, warm peppermint tea during the warmest days, I can tell you; peppermint is cooling and the warm beverage makes the body absorb the water and liquid more easily… and if you sweeten the tea using for example honey you’ll have a little boost of energy during the day… specially after lunch …

So, my favourite peppermint tea is made of peppermint leaves from the garden.

You can use fresh peppermint leaves during the summer season if you like, and just add hot water and sweetener and let steep for a few minutes.

My favourite is actually making tea from the dried peppermint leaves.

To make your own peppermint tea is easy if you have fresh peppermint.

You just cut a bunch of stems with peppermint leaves, bind them together and hang the bouquet somewhere dry and warm.

I hang it over my counter top in my kitchen. The bouquet dries pretty fast.

You can easily adapt this drying of peppermint leaves to any of your garden herbs.

Let it hang upside down for a week. When the leaves are dry you take the bouquets down and take the leaves of the stems. The leaves will fall apart – wich is perfect- because you want them to be tea.

Store the dry leaves in an airtight glass jar.

For the peppermint tea I use 1-2 teaspoons of dried peppermint leaves in a tea infuser for one big cup of hot, freshly boiled water. I also add a little bit of honey to taste.