How to Make Homemade Raspberry Lemon Balm Tea
Learn how to make delicious raspberry lemon balm tea. This herbal tea is fresh, soothing, and a great way to use your lemon balm leaves. This fresh lemon balm tea is sweetened with honey, and sure to become your favorite summer tea. Use fresh leaves or dehydrated leaves. Drink it hot or cold.
Tips for Making Raspberry Lemon Balm Tea
Fresh herbal teas are so easy to make and only take a few minutes. This lemon balm recipe is soothing and delicious whether you drink it hot or cool it off, add ice cubes, and make it into iced tea. Iced tea is so refreshing on a hot summer day.
This tea recipe uses lemon balm and raspberry leaves, but other fresh herbs such as fresh mint can be added to the mix for unique flavor combinations.
What is Lemon Balm?
Lemon balm (melissa officinalis) is a perennial herb and member of the mint family, and these plants are very prolific. Lemon balm has a long history of culinary use because of its subtle lemon flavor reminiscent of lemon juice. It is a calming herb with health benefits and a soothing aroma and flavor. It is often grown as a medicinal herb and used in herbal medicine.
This herb is also commonly used in herbal remedies. The calming effect of this tea makes it the perfect way to wind down before bedtime.
The good news is lemon balm is easy to grow, so it’s a great choice if you are a first time gardener. Growing your own lemon balm at home is so rewarding.
Lemon balm is one of my favorite herbs for culinary uses because it has so many uses from sweet to savory.
My lemon balm plant threatens to take over my herb garden every year, so I’m always looking for different ways to use it throughout the growing season. One of my favorite ways to use my lemon balm plant is for herbal tea. A soothing cup of tea is a good thing to drink right before bed.
Ingredients:
Lemon Balm Leaves: I use fresh lemon balm leaves in this recipe, but dried leaves work great too. Grab a handful of new growth leaves from your garden! Just make sure you rinse them in cold water to clean them. Only use undamaged leaves for best results.
Raspberry Leaves: Fresh or dried raspberry leaves work great in this recipe. Make sure they are undamaged and clean.
Honey: The honey in this recipe adds a slight sweetness without overpowering the lemon and raspberry leaves taste.
Hot Water: I like to use filtered, boiled water to make sure the water doesn’t add any unwanted taste to the tea. If you don’t have access to a filter, you can simply boil your tap water.
Tools:
How to Make Raspberry Lemon Balm Tea
Harvest fresh lemon balm and raspberry leaves that are free of damage. Wash leaves with cold clean water and dry in a single layer on a paper towel. You can also use dried lemon balm and raspberry leaves in place of fresh leaves.
Boil water in a medium saucepan. While the water is coming to a boil, place 20 lemon balm and 4 raspberry leaves in each glass jar. This recipe makes 2 quarts or 8 cups of tea, but you can scale the recipe up or down to make your desired amount of herbal tea.
After the water is boiling, place the canning funnel on top of each jar and pour the boiling water over the leaves up to the neck of the jar.
Let the tea steep for 10 minutes for best lemony flavor. If you like stronger tea, you can let the tea steep longer.
After 10 minutes, pour the tea through a fine mesh strainer into another quart jar to strain out the leaves.
Add 2 tablespoons of honey to the hot tea in each quart jar and place a watertight lid on the jar. Shake vigorously to dissolve the honey in the tea. Now you can drink it and enjoy that fresh flavor!
You can drink this easy lemon balm tea right away while its warm, or you can place it in the refrigerator and drink it cold. Enjoy a soothing cup of simple tea before bed or first thing in the morning.
This simple homemade lemon balm tea will store in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
Go grab a handful lemon balm today and enjoy this delicious tea. This is a great recipe for a hot day. All you have to do is cool it off and add some ice.
Follow along for more delicious uses of lemon balm and all other garden produce!
Pin For Later
Raspberry Lemon Balm Tea
Learn how to make delicious raspberry lemon balm tea. This herbal tea is fresh, soothing, and a great way to use your lemon balm leaves.
Ingredients
- 40 lemon balm leaves
- 8 raspberry leaves
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 2 quarts boiling water
Instructions
- Harvest fresh lemon balm and raspberry leaves that are free of damage. Wash leaves with cold clean water.
- Boil water in a medium saucepan.
- While the water is coming to a boil, place 20 lemon balm and 4 raspberry leaves in each quart jar. This recipe makes 2 quarts, but you can scale the recipe up or down to make your desired amount of herbal tea.
- After the water is boiling, place the canning funnel on top of each jar and pour the boiling water over the leaves up to the neck of the jar.
- Let the tea sit and seep for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, pour the tea through a fine mesh sieve into another quart jar to strain out the leaves.
- Add 2 tablespoons of honey to each quart jar and place a watertight lid on each jar. Shake vigorously to dissolve the honey in the tea.
- You can drink the tea right away while its warm, or you can place it in the refrigerator and drink it cold.
Notes
This tea will store in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 57Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 27mgCarbohydrates: 13gFiber: 2gSugar: 9gProtein: 2g
East Fork Growing is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. These products do not cost anymore to you, but we earn a small commission if you use our links. Thanks for your support!
- About the Author
- Latest Posts
Halli is a 4th generation gardener. Her great-grandmother had a beautiful garden and orchard and grew all the food to feed her large family. Halli has been growing her own garden for over 20 years. Growing her own food, improving the soil, and feeding her family home-cooked meals are her passions. Halli loves to connect with old, time-honored ways of cooking, gardening, and living.
Great idea! Looks delicious & refreshing!😁
This sound amazing. We love teas around here, I am going to try this out!
I’ve always wanted to try to use raspberry leaves for tea! This is a great idea and I can’t wait to try!
I hope you love it like I do!
This sounds delicious, I love herbal teas!
I am definitely going to try this, thank you for the recipe! I use lemon balm in essential oil blends but never fresh. Thanks again!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! It’s so calming and delicious.
Sounds so refreshing! I have a lot of lemon balm I need to use.