Peach Iced Tea from Scratch

Perfectly sweet and delicious homemade peach iced tea recipe made with fresh peaches, and a tasty blend of Earl Grey and English breakfast teas.

Recipe Highlights

• Peach iced tea is a refreshing peach flavored iced tea. This recipe is made with fresh peaches, creating a peach syrup from scratch. Making peach syrup from scratch makes the drink so much tastier than using peach flavored tea bags.
• A flavorful iced tea is made by combining Earl Grey and English breakfast tea. (A great tip — thanks, Emily!)
• This recipe uses brewed tea that is cooled down, but you can also use cold brew tea.

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Ingredient Notes

• Earl Grey tea sachet
  Loose tea or tea bags can be used but recommend tea sachets since they’re easy to clean up and contain better quality tea than tea bags.
• English breakfast tea sachets
  You can also use Assam tea sachets which are sometimes sold as English breakfast.
• Water
  Use filtered water if possible since it’ll make your iced tea taste better.
• Peaches
  Fresh peaches would work the best, but you can use frozen peaches if you can’t find fresh.
• Sugar
  Use any sweetener you like but I like regular, granulated sugar.
• Ice
  Make ice cubes using filtered water if possible.

Step-by-Step Instructions

For full ingredients and instructions, scroll down to see the recipe.

1. Steep tea sachets in hot water.
   Discard tea sachets and let tea cool.
2. Make a peach puree by blending diced peaches and water.
3. Heat peach puree and sugar on the stovetop.
4. Strain out solids and let cool.
   This is the peach syrup that gets added to the cooled down tea.

5. Combine cooled down peach syrup and tea.
6. Pour peach iced tea into cups with ice.

Expert Tips

• Garnish peach iced tea with thinly sliced peach wedges. Line cups with a couple of peach wedges, fill cup with ice, then pour in iced tea.
• Any black tea will work great for this peach iced tea. You can use just Earl Grey or English breakfast tea.
• Try experimenting with different types of tea! An oolong tea or a green tea would go really well with peach.
• Don’t want to make peach syrup from scratch? Use store-bought peach juice! Add 2 cups of peach juice to the pitcher with tea. 
• Make sure your pitcher can handle high heat if you’re steeping tea directly in it.
• Instead of pureeing the peaches, you can dice them into small pieces and mash them in the saucepan. Cook on the stovetop 10 minutes longer if you do this. I puree the peaches to shorten the cooking time on the stove.
• The drink already is sweetened but if you want to add more, use simple syrup to make sure it fully mixes in with the iced tea.
• Peach iced tea can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
• Add ice to the cups instead of in the pitcher with the iced tea so that the iced tea doesn’t get watered down.

Questions You May Have

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Peach Iced Tea

Author: Jee Choe

Refreshing peach iced tea with Earl Grey and English breakfast tea.

4.8 from 27 votes

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Yield4 servings

INGREDIENTS

 

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Iced Tea

• ▢ 4 cups ice
• ▢ 2 cups water
• ▢ 2 English Breakfast tea sachets
• ▢ 1 Earl Grey tea sachet
• ▢ Sliced peaches (optional garnish)

Peach Syrup

• ▢ 1 ½ cups water
• ▢ 1 ½ cups diced peaches
• ▢ 2 tablespoons white sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

MAKE TEA

• Boil water.

  Heat 2 cups filtered water to 190°F if using an electric kettle with a temperature setting. If heating water on the stovetop, bring water to a simmer then turn off heat and let cool a couple of minutes.
• Put tea sachets into a pitcher and add hot water. Steep for 5 minutes.
• Discard tea sachets and let tea cool.

  Set aside. Cool tea in refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

MAKE PEACH SYRUP

• Blend diced peaches and 1 ½ cups of water in a mini blender.

  Dice the peaches so it blends quickly and evenly.
• Heat peach puree and sugar on the stovetop.

  Bring it to a boil then lower heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Turn off heat.
• Strain peach syrup. Let cool.

  Filter out solids using a mesh strainer.

ASSEMBLE DRINK

• Combine peach syrup and tea.

  Both peach syrup and tea should be cooled down when combined.
• Pour peach iced tea into cups with ice.

  Add thinly sliced peach wedges as optional garnish.

EQUIPMENT

Mesh Strainer

Mini Blender

NOTES

• Garnish peach iced tea with thinly sliced peach wedges. Line cups with a couple of peach wedges, fill cup with ice, then pour in peach iced tea.
• To replace tea sachets with loose tea, use 1 tablespoon of loose English breakfast and 1 ½ teaspoons of Earl Grey.
• Any black tea will work great for this peach iced tea. You can use just Earl Grey or English breakfast tea.
• Try experimenting with different types of tea! An oolong tea or a green tea would go really well with peach.
• Don’t want to make peach syrup from scratch? Use store-bought peach juice! Add 2 cups of peach juice to the pitcher with tea. 
• Make sure your pitcher can handle high heat if you’re steeping tea directly in it.
• Instead of pureeing the peaches, you can dice them into small pieces and mash them in the saucepan. Cook on the stovetop 10 minutes longer if you do this. I puree the peaches to shorten the cooking time on the stove.
• The drink already is sweetened but if you want to add more, use simple syrup to make sure it fully mixes in with the iced tea.
• Peach iced tea can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
• Add ice to the cups instead of in the pitcher with the iced tea so that the iced tea doesn’t get watered down.

NUTRITION

Calories: 51 | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 110mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 188IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg

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