Lemon Ginger Tea (Detox Tea Recipe)

How To Make Ginger Tea: 3-Ingredient Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe, a tasty fresh-made tea to jumpstart your diet!

Ginger Lemon 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, takes a toll.

I try to get five good workouts in each week and eat lots of lean low carb dishes to counterbalance all the “research eating” I do.

It certainly helps, but sometimes I need a little extra something to eliminate salt and/or sugar bloat after naughty eating days. (Can I say bloat on the blog?) Women in particular tend to struggle with excess water weight after enjoying certain foods.

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!

Introducing our Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe…

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.

Benefits of Detox Tea

However, if you remove most (or all) of the honey, you’ve got a fabulous Lemon Ginger Detox Tea Recipe that will:

• Eliminate water retention
• Shrink your stomach so you don’t overeat
• And actually boost your metabolism (according to some research)

Not to mention this might also:

• Aid and soothe indigestion
• Alleviate nausea (great for people going through chemotherapy)
• Could have anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidant properties
• Can help boost your immune system 
• Could help reduce inflammation
• Can help clear your sinuses

Potential Health Benefits 

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 also freshens your breath, boosts your immunity, 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. The powerful healing properties of ginger have a long list of health benefits, including cancer prevention and increasing your sex drive… Just saying.

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.

How To Make Ginger Tea

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger (from fresh ginger root)
• 1 lemon wedge with peel (both for lemon juice and garnish if desired)
• 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 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

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.

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.

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