Super Easy Mint Syrup
on Apr 14, 2024
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Super easy mint syrup from scratch for coffee and tea. Just 3 ingredients is all that’s needed to make it at home!
Easy Mint Syrup
Mint syrup, also called mint simple syrup, is a mint flavored liquid sweetener. It’s used to flavor and sweeten drinks like iced coffee or iced tea.
Don’t buy store-bought mint syrup when making it at home is so easy.
Add mint syrup to any drink for a burst of minty, fresh taste. Try it in lemonade, cold brew coffee, iced tea, or chamomile tea.
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Recipe Highlights
- It’s made from 3 easy-to-find ingredients: peppermint tea, sugar, and water.
- It’s perfect for adding to drinks like coffee, tea, or hot chocolate to flavor and sweeten with mint taste.
- This recipes makes a cup of mint syrup.
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Ingredient Notes
- Peppermint loose tea: Instead of using fresh mint leaves, this recipe uses loose peppermint tea, which is dried peppermint leaves. Because you can keep peppermint tea in the cabinet without worrying about it going bad, it’s so much convenient to make mint syrup with it than fresh mint.
- Sugar: Regular granulated sugar or cane sugar can be used. You can replace the white sugar in the recipe with brown sugar, coconut sugar, date sugar, honey, or maple syrup but it will make the syrup darker.
- Water: Always use filtered water for a better tasting syrup.
For full ingredients and detailed instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1: Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer. Take off heat and steep. Stir to make sure sugar dissolves completely.
Step 2: Strain mint leaves and pour syrup into an airtight container.
Mint syrup can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Expert Tips
- Instead of loose mint tea, you can use peppermint tea bags. Make sure the tea bags only contain peppermint. Replace the 3 tablespoons of loose tea with 6 peppermint tea bags or 3 tea sachets.
- A ¼ cup of fresh mint can be used instead of peppermint tea.
- The longer the mint tea steeps in the saucepan with the sugar and water, the stronger the mint taste will be.
- Use a strainer and a funnel to easily strain the mint leaves.
- To sweeten and flavor your drink, add 1-2 tablespoons of mint syrup into a cup of coffee or tea.
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3-Ingredient Mint Syrup
Ingredients
- ¾ cup water
- ¾ cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons peppermint loose tea
Instructions
- Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer.Simmer until the sugar has completely dissolved. Stir occasionally.
- Take off heat and steep for 15 minutes, covered. Turn off heat and let cool.
- Strain and pour syrup into an airtight container.The syrup will keep for up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.
Notes
- Instead of loose mint tea, you can use peppermint tea bags. Make sure the tea bags only contain peppermint. Replace the 3 tablespoons of loose tea with 6 peppermint tea bags or 3 tea sachets.
- The longer the mint tea steeps in the saucepan with the sugar and water, the stronger the mint taste will be.
- Use a strainer and a funnel to easily strain the mint leaves.
- To sweeten and flavor your drink, add 1-2 tablespoons of mint syrup into a cup of coffee or tea.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
