Weather is changing, people are getting sick and summer is technically over, so what better way to cleanse your body and say bye to summer than by drinking tea, lemonade, or both at the same time! Starbucks Unsweetened or Sweetened Tevana Green Tea Lemonade is the drink to have during these days. Believe it or not, Starbucks Coffee also sells teas and they are DELICIOUS. Teas can be ordered in a variety of sizes (tall, grande, venti or trenta), flavors (green tea, green tea lemonade, peach tea, mojito tea, passion fruit tea, chai, vanilla rooibos tea, “zen” tea, black tea, grey tea and china tea), and could also be served shaken or iced. Despite all of the horizons you can explore at the Starbucks tea wonder, the green tea lemonade is the one to have!
Why this one specific tea? Well besides being my favorite, it is the perfect mixture of citrus that will help anyone get better from the flu and also say bye to summer with the taste of fresh fruit. The green tea lemonade has a soft and refreshing taste (specially if ordered sweetened) that reminds me of the Pure Leaf Tea brand, but with a more home-ish taste. Unlike all the other Starbucks Teas, the green tea lemonade can be made using the Tazo Green Tea that is found at the bottom cooler before the cashier at any Starbucks. Using the Tazo Grenn Tea will make your order about $1.00-$2.00 more expensive, depending on your size, but will add flavor to your drink.
The Starbucks Tevana Green Tea Lemonade contains anywhere from 60 to 120 calories depending on your size of choice. In other words, the green tea lemonade is relatively healthy. Also, the Tevana Green Tea Lemonade is made out of really simple ingredients, which makes it easy to replicate. All you will need is your favorite brand or kind of green tea with mint, your favorite brand or kind of lemongrass and lemon verbena, sugar, ice and a shaker, or a blender.
If you want to make your own green tea lemonade shaken, add about ½ of a cup of green tea with mint into the shaker. Then, add about ½ of lemongrass and lemon verbena, pour sugar, if you want it sweetened, to your taste, and shake! Once you shake all of your ingredients into your very own green tea lemonade, fill about ¼ of your cup with ice and your green tea lemonade. Top it with some grinded mint leafs or cilantro and enjoy! If you want to make your own iced green tea lemonade follow the same recipe, but instead of pouring everything into the shaker, pour it into the blender (this includes the ¼ cup of ice). Once you have blended everything top it with some grinded mint leafs or cilantro and enjoy! If for some reason your blender isn’t able to blend ice well, you can add some water to the mix and the texture will be easier to blend, you could also shake the ice in the shaker and lave your lemonade with a more “frozen” texture.
Works Cited: “Teavana Shaken Iced Green Tea Lemonade.” Starbucks Coffee Company. Starbucks Coorporation, n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2014.