Lemon Ginger Tea
How To Make Lemon Ginger Tea: 3-Ingredient Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe, a tasty fresh-made wellness drink to jumpstart your morning!
Why We Love Lemon Ginger Tea
Anyone who knows me well, knows I’m a fan of detox tea. In my line of work, it comes in handy. After all, recipe testing, eating, traveling, and eating some more, can take a toll.
When I travel, I keep detox tea bags on hand to drink in the evenings before bed. This helps eliminate extra water weight so I fit into my clothes the next morning. The Yogi and Traditional Medicinal brands are my favorites. You can also drink dandelion tea to achieve the same goal.
However, at home, I like to sip a detox tea that tastes fresher, and boosts my metabolism! This homemade Lemon Ginger Tea is fresh, easy to make and so soothing! If you are feeling sick or have a sore throat, this tea will help you feel better in no time.
You might have tasted something similar in an Asian restaurant at some point. Most often sushi bars and Korean restaurants offer fresh-made lemon ginger tea with a heavy amount of honey. Usually, it’s served with long ginger strands resting in the bottom of the mug. The flavor is warm, zippy, and devilishly sweet.
However, if you remove most (or all) of the honey, you’ve got a fabulous Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe that will help aid and soothe digestion, boost your immune system, help reduce inflammation, and clear your sinuses!
What are the Benefits of Lemon Ginger Detox Tea?
Lemon is a natural diuretic that helps purge unwanted water weight. It also causes your stomach to pucker when consumed, so your stomach is smaller for a time. That means if you drink it before a meal, you will feel full after eating less food.
Lemon juice also freshens your breath, boosts your immunity with antioxidants, improves your skin, and helps with digestion, among many other benefits.
Ginger works as a detoxifier, helping remove unwanted chemicals from your body. It is also known to improve digestion, suppress your appetite, and keep your metabolism fired up all day. It is also helpful for digestion and nausea. The powerful healing properties of ginger have a long list of health benefits, including cancer prevention!
Put these two power-packed ingredients together and you have a Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe that can get your body back on track in no time.
Ingredients For Ginger Lemon Tea
- Fresh Ginger Root – grated for lots of flavor
- Lemon – lemon wedge with the peel
- Water – hot water
- Honey – don’t add honey if you are using this tea for detox purposes
How To Make Lemon Ginger Tea
- Boil water in a kettle.
- Use a large coarse grater to shave fresh ginger into a mug. Place a wedge of fresh lemon in the mug. You can place both in a tea infuser to strain the tea if you like. Pour boiling water into the cup and let the lemon and ginger steep for 5 minutes before serving.
- Add honey to taste and stir if drinking for enjoyment. Skip the honey (or use very little) if drinking as a detox tea.
- As for the honey, I’ve included it in the recipe so you can taste the restaurant version. Honey does have its own list of health benefits, so if you need to sweeten your tea a little, that’s ok. If you are not a honey fan you can use the sweetener of your choice.
- However, I personally never add the honey when I’m using this Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe as a bodily reset. I just don’t want the extra sugar messing up my detox.
Detox Tea Tips & Tricks
- You can use a tea infuser to strain out the ginger and lemon slices if floaties bother you. I actually like the little bits of fresh ginger swirling around my cup. I swallow them whole, knowing the more ginger I consume, the better.
- You can also pour this Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe over ice, in your water bottle, and sip it all day long!
- To Make An Entire Pot/Large Batch: Make as instructed above using 2 tablespoons fresh grated ginger, 1 small sliced lemon or 1/2 large lemon, 6 cups boiling water, (optional) 4-5 tablespoons honey.
- Want to take this tea to the next level? Instead of using a spoon to stir this drink, use a cinnamon stick.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ginger lemon tea is great when you are feeling sick. Ginger and lemon are both good sources of vitamin c and have anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidant properties. It is also great to jump start your metabolism in order to detox your body!
You can definitely drink lemon ginger detox tea every day, up to 3 times a day, if desired. If you have a medical condition that might be affected by consuming too much ginger and lemon, please consult your doctor.
Looking for More Healthy Detox Recipes? Be Sure to Try:
- Chicken Detox Soup
- Detox Celery Juice
- Roasted Salmon Detox Recipe
- Healthy Baked Carrot Chips
- Southwest Detox Chicken Soup
Check the printable recipe card below for the nutrition information including calories, carbohydrates, protein, sodium, potassium, fiber, vitamin c, polyunsaturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and calcium percentages. Make sure to share this recipe on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
- 1 lemon wedge
- 1 cup hot water
- 2-3 teaspoons raw honey (skip for detox)
Instructions
- Boil water in a kettle.
- Use a large coarse grater to shave fresh ginger into a mug. Place a wedge of fresh lemon in the mug. You can place both in a tea infuser to strain the tea if you like. Pour boiling water into the cup and let the lemon and ginger steep for 5 minutes before serving.
- Add honey to taste if drinking for enjoyment. Skip the honey (or use very little) if drinking as a detox tea.
pretty good if you do add honey, easy to make. overall good experience. I noticed I was less bloated throughout the day!
Healthy + tasty. Very good but not great. Very easy and quick to make.
Hi I’m wondering with this tea would I be able to loss weight?
How much do you drink at a time and how often do you drink this? We want to try this
OMG! I tried the exact same recipe and guess what! I am having it daily, you’re really amazing and this mixture is awesome. Thank you
Gonna give it a go
I love lemon ginger tea. I usually add a dash of cayenne pepper to kick up the metabolism boosting benefits.
Refreshing and helps with my sinus issues .
Great, simply recipe! I add a little fresh tumeric and cayenne pepper.
I take lemon and Ginger tea. I am used to it
So….may be a dumb question – but there is no actual ‘tea’ in this detox ‘tea’?
Tea is basically what you make with the water. Ex: if you drop 1 lemon leaf in boiling water, you just made lemon tea. ;)
Yea there are pretty much two types of tea. True tea-which is the black and green teas, and herbal- which is made with any fruit, leaf or herb.
Tea-less “tea” is actually called tisane, but as you can see, it’s not very common to use that word. Most people say tea for both types! :)
How often to drink this detox tea
Hi Monique,
You can drink it every day, and even several times a day. Personally, I drink it after seasons of naughty eating. ;)
Hi Sommer. I love this recipe. My question is that many other versions of ginger tea tell you to boil the tea for 10 minutes. Which would be better? Surely if you boil it for 10 minutes you will lose flavour and the goodness?
Hi Cathy,
I personally prefer it when the ginger is just steeped, rather than boiled. But you can try both methods and decide which one you like better. :)