Simple Fresh Mint Tea

This simple fresh mint tea is a lighter from-scratch tea recipe made using fresh mint leaves, water, and honey. It comes together quickly and results in the most comforting cozy cup of tea!

Nothing compares to from-scratch tea. Whether its maple iced tea, almond milk matcha tea, or this hot fresh mint tea, making it at home always has our favorite results. We love the flavor you get by using fresh herbs when making tea. If you love big flavor from fresh ingredients, you should check out our strawberry iced tea made with real strawberry juice. YUM.

We got the idea to start making mint tea from fresh mint from our trip to the Netherlands. Every time that we ordered mint tea at a restaurant there, we were given a big glass of hot water with lots of fresh mint tea leaves inside, and a small pot of honey next to it. We were blown away with how satisfying mint tea tasted this way, so we started making it like this at home.

Why this recipe works:

• You only need 3 ingredients!
• It is simple and fast. It comes together in 5 minutes.
• You don’t need a teapot or kettle, all you need is a teacup and some boiling water.
• This mint herbal tea is lighter and fits a wide variety of dietary needs.

Recipe Ingredients:

• boiling water– you can use a water boiler or boil it on the stove.
• honey– any type of honey works, but we like to use raw honey.
• fresh mint leaves– you can buy them at the grocery store or grab them from your garden outside.

See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.

Recipe Variations:

• Instead of honey, you can use maple syrup.
• Instead of peppermint leaves, you can use spearmint leaves.
• You can add lemon juice or lemon slices.
• You can add ginger root.
• You can add green tea to make it a morrocan mint tea.
• You can add black tea to the mint leaves.
• You can add basil leaves.
• You can turn this into iced mint tea!

How to make fresh mint tea:

Step 1

Step 1: Boil water, add it to a glass or mug, and add fresh mint leaves to a cup.

Step 2

Step 2: Add honey and mix into the water until it is dissolved. Let the mint tea leaves steep for 3-5 minutes.

Mint tea health benefits

• It can help calm your stomach and help with digestion.
• Peppermint is a natural anti-bacterial.
• It can help ease a sore throat, reduce stress, and prevent nausea.
• It can help you relax before bed. Peppermint is a muscle relaxant. Check out the following article for more information on the health benefits of mint.

Recipe FAQs

Yes! Once you have added the honey and let the mint leaves steep, then add ice cubes OR put the mug into the refrigerator to cool and then add ice cubes later.

In the produce section of the grocery store or in your garden.

We find that mint is one of those herbs that grows really well outside and needs minimal intervention, so we always have some growing in our yard.

Traditional peppermint, chocolate mint, spearmint, apple mint.