Lavender Tea with Chocolate Mint

Lavender tea is wonderful, this blend includes chocolate mint

This lavender Tea Blend with Chocolate Mint is both soothing and invigorating

I found this recipe in an amazing book called Harvest Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants by Stefani Bittner  and Alethea Harampolis.  

This book is full of gorgeous recipes for using up your seasonal harvests 

Herbal Lavender Tea with Chocolate Mint Recipe

I used fresh chocolate mint and lavender from the garden because it’s July and we have both of them. You could also used dried, but chocolate mint is hard to find. Most gardeners grow it themselves from seed or buy plants. There are many other tea blends you can create with fresh garden hers. Learn how to grow a tea garden here.

Fresh garden lavender

Chocolate mint

If you don’t have chocolate mint, you can also use other mints. There are SO many mint varieties .

Makes 2 Cups

• 10 to 15 (or more) fresh or dried lavender flowers
• 4 to 5 freshly harvested mint stems
• 2 cups of boiling water

How to steep your herbal tea blend

After harvesting your mint and lavender check over for bugs. Give them a gentle wash in cool water. You can place the herbs in a tea pot, or did what I did and gently pick off each flower and mint leaf into a mason jar. If you have less than the amount below just reduce the amount of boiling water.Pour the boiling water over the herbs and let steep for 15 mins. Strain and enjoy!