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This delicious Peach Iced Tea is incredibly easy to make with only 3 ingredients! With canned peaches and just a few simple steps, this Southern peach sweet tea is the perfect choice for those hot Summer days.
The Best Homemade Peach Iced Tea Recipe
Spring and summer weather calls for a tall fresh glass of Southern peach iced tea. There’s nothing like getting out of the pool on a hot day and sipping on a glass of sweet peach tea. This tea recipe only uses a handful of ingredients with the perfect amount of peach flavor and sweetness. If you love sweet tea, you’ll also want to try our Strawberry Sweet Tea
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Tea Bags – You will need tea bags for brewed iced tea for this recipe (more info about kinds of tea below).
- Water – this is needed for the tea and the simple syrup.
- Peaches – canned sliced peaches, pureed in a blender.
- Sugar – this is combined and heated with water to make a simple syrup. Feel free to replace the simple syrup with other sweeteners like honey, maple syrup or any other sugar substitutions.
How to Make Peach Tea
This peach tea recipe has just 15-minutes of prep time is all you need to make this delicious peach iced tea!
- Pour 4 cups of water into a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Add in the tea bags and let them sit and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Take out the tea bags and discard them, then set them aside to cool. While the tea is cooling, prepare the simple syrup mixture.
- Combine the sugar and water over medium heat until it dissolves, then bring to a slight boil, then take away from the heat.
- Add the tea and simple syrup into a large pitcher and combine.
- Pour in the peach puree and the rest of the 4 cups of cool water and combine.
- Keep in the fridge until ready to serve.
- Enjoy over ice cubes and top with peach slices and fresh mint leaves for garnish, if desired.
Can I Make Peach Iced Tea Using Fresh Peaches?
Yes! You will need to cook the peaches first to make them soft enough to puree and proceed with directions.
- Cooking fresh peaches. In a medium saucepan combine 3 ripe peaches and 1.5 cups of water and bring to a boil over high heat until the peaches are soft.
- Puree. Transfer the cooked peaches into a blender and puree until smooth. Pour the peach puree through a fine mesh strainer to remove any clumps .
What Type of Tea Is Best?
Any black tea bags made for brewed iced tea will work well or even green tea. The brands Lipton and Luzianne each have their own special blends for iced tea and are probably the most well known, but any iced tea blend will work fine.
More Peach Recipes
- Peach Pie Bars
- Air Fryer Peach Hand Pie Recipe
- Easy Peach Cobbler
- Easy Peach Pie Recipe {with Fresh Peaches!}
- Easy Peach Dump Cake
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Ingredients
Ingredients for tea:
- 6- black tea bags , regular size
- 8 cups water , divided in half
- 1 15 oz can peach slices, pureed
Ingredients for Simple Syrup:
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, begin heating 4 cups of water. Once the water begins to boil, add the 6 tea bags and allow them steep for about 5 minutes. Remove and throw away the tea bags when finished. Set the tea aside to cool.
- While the tea is cooling, prepare the simple syrup mixture:
- Using a small saucepan, combine one cup of water and one cup of sugar. On medium heat, stir the sugar and water together until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture begins to lightly boil, then remove from heat.
- In a large pitcher, combine the tea and the simple syrup. To finish the tea, add in the pureed peaches and the remaining four cups of cool water, stirring all of the ingredients together.
- Keep chilled and serve over ice.
- Optional: Garnish with peach slices and fresh mint.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Can u make it ahead of time
Hi Kensee. For best taste I would only make a day ahead of time although it will keep for a few days.
This is a 5 star!!! Crisp and refreshing! Going to check out more recipes!
Thank you Lorrie!
It’s SO much easier to add sugar into hot tea bag water when your tea bags steep. This is the way we have made our sweet tea for generations. Just add a cup of water, hot immediately or cold as it cools, and you’re done. No extra pan to wash !
Do you use peaches in juice or heavy syrup? And just double checking…do you strain peaches or use the liquid in the tea as well?
Hi Tami. You will use strained peaches, preferably in juice, since you are making the simple syrup to add.
Ok, thank you.
Can you use fresh peaches?
Hi Jim. Yes, fresh peaches will be great!
Recipe very easy to follow. Did add additional sugar for my personal taste.
So refreshing on a hot summer day
I will forsure try this