Strong Ginger Tea with Lemon, Honey and Cayenne
A small cup of strong ginger tea with fresh lemon, raw honey and a pinch of cayenne: sharp, hot and caffeine-free.
This is ginger tea at its sharpest: a small cup brewed strong, then pushed further with cayenne and fresh lemon. It is hot in both senses, sour at the edges and sweet in the middle, and it has no caffeine at all.
Honey is essential here — it softens the cayenne's burn and gives the cup a round, floral sweetness that sugar cannot. Use a good one; you'll taste the difference in a drink this simple.
The cayenne is optional in quantity but not in spirit. Even a tiny pinch builds a slow warmth on the tongue that sits underneath the ginger's sharper bite.
Drink it in the morning as a wake-up cup without caffeine, or sip it slowly on a cold evening. The catalog steeps ginger at 95 °C for 6 minutes with 2 g per cup; for this recipe, go stronger and longer.
Ingredients
- 1 cup brewed ginger tea (strong)
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 tbsp raw honey
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- 1 thin slice fresh ginger
How to make it
- 1Brew ginger tea strong—use 2 bags or a generous thumb of sliced fresh ginger steeped in boiling water for 10 minutes.
- 2Strain if using fresh ginger. Let cool to drinking temperature before adding the honey.
- 3Stir in lemon juice and raw honey until honey dissolves.
- 4Add a pinch of cayenne and the fresh ginger slice. Stir and sip slowly.
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