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Nettle, Apple & Lemon Iced Tea
A crisp chilled infusion of culinary dried Stinging Nettle Leaf, fresh green apple and bright lemon, preserved from our original Stinging Nettle Leaf Shopify recipe archive.
Meet the dried herbal ingredient
Stinging Nettle Leaf
Urtica dioica · culinary dried Stinging Nettle Leaf (not the separately stocked nettle root).
This authentic ingredient photograph depicts the real Nettle Leaf 20g product. Fresh green apple and lemon complete the chilled drink.
Exact original archived ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons dried Stinging Nettle Leaf (Urtica dioica)
- 500 ml freshly boiled water
- ½ green apple, thinly sliced
- ½ lemon, sliced
- 1–2 teaspoons honey, optional
- Ice
Original source-faithful method
Method
- Place the dried Stinging Nettle Leaf in a teapot and pour over 500 ml freshly boiled water.
- Cover and steep for 5–10 minutes, then strain carefully.
- If using honey, stir it into the warm infusion; allow the infusion to cool.
- Add thinly sliced green apple and lemon, then refrigerate until chilled.
- Serve over plenty of ice.
Original source & culinary notes
- Source accuracy: The Stinging Nettle Leaf original product-description recipe specifies 2 tsp dried Stinging Nettle Leaf, 500 ml freshly boiled water, half a thinly sliced green apple, half a sliced lemon, 1–2 tsp optional honey and ice. It requires a covered 5–10-minute steep, straining, cooling and refrigeration until chilled. No serving yield or shelf life is invented.
- Leaf versus root: The original recipe calls for culinary dried Urtica dioica leaf; do not use the separately sold Stinging Nettle Root. Do not substitute raw stinging nettles without appropriate handling and food-preparation knowledge.
- Fresh fruit and chilling: Wash and inspect the apple and lemon, use clean food-safe utensils and ice, cool the herbal infusion promptly, refrigerate and enjoy freshly prepared.
- Botanical precautions: Avoid with known nettle, apple or citrus sensitivities. Ask a qualified professional about individual botanical suitability with pregnancy, breastfeeding, medications or relevant conditions. Optional honey is not suitable for infants under 12 months.
- Photo integrity: Only the genuine dried nettle leaf 20g pouch is shown as ingredient photography, not an invented prepared-drink image.