Roasted herbal fruit teas

These roasted herbal teas with fruits and spices are a convenient way to comfort yourself during cold months. Enhanced with herbs and packed with vitamins these herbal blends will boost you with vitamins and energy. 

It’s a cool autumn month, the leaves are slowly falling, but there are plenty of fruits on the trees and shrubs – rose hips, quince, apples, pears, blackberries, well … – How to process them? I remember how my grandmother always went to forage for rose hips and apples and made excellent tea from them. But it was not tea made of dried rose hips, they were roasted. 

Only later I discovered that it is a traditional Czech way of making tea long before fruit teabags hit grocery stores. 

This roasted tea warms you up during the cold autumn and winter month and helps you to preserve what you have left in your garden. 

I made three various herbal tea blends for you to get inspired but use your fantasy and chose fruits and herbs that you like or have at hand. 

TEA IS THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.

Lao Tzu

HERBAL TEA BENEFITS

It’s not just an aroma that evokes pleasant feelings, there is plenty of research showing that drinking fruit herbal tea can actually improve your health.

• anti-ageing effect –  packed with antioxidants, roasted herbal fruit tea slows down ageing and prevents radical damage
• antidepressant effect – thanks to their comforting effect herbal teas can significantly reduce your stress level and can provide relief to someone who feels low or depressed
• kidney help – by consuming at least one cup of herbal tea a day, you will not only get enough fluid in your body but also prevent kidney disease and help boost kidney health.
• Reduce blood pressure – while caffeine can increase blood pressure, antioxidants present in herbal fruit teas can help lower your blood pressure naturally
• Vitamin C – herbal fruit tea has plenty of vitamin C which is good not only to boost your immune system but also beneficial to your entire internal system. No matter what the season, this fruit herbal tea can be a tasty beverage since it can be served iced or hot.

Roasted herbal tea blends

Immunity booster – Rosehips & apple & thyme

This beautiful blend inspired by a misty autumn is all you need to keep warm and safe during these cold coming months.

Make sure you open each and every rose hip and remove all sticky seeds. You don’t want those seeds ending up in your tea. Eating the rose hip hairs can be highly irritating to your digestive tract so make sure you have removed them completely.

Rose hips goes really well with apples and thyme and we recommended this tea as an immunity booster for its high content of vitamin C (rose hips) and protection against colds and infection (volatile oils which are present in Thyme)

Ginger & Quince & Cinnamon & cloves

This glorious fruit and herbal tea reminds me of Christmas with its smell of cinnamon and cloves. Baked quincy reminds me of pear with its taste.  

Tea for sore throat

Ginger known as a warming spice can speed up healing. It’s a marvelous remedy in the early stages of an infection. Ginger stimulates circulation and help to relieve rheumatic pains and aches

Tea to lose weight

Ginger is also known for stimulating digestion and suppressing hunger and appetite. This tea can also help you lose weight. 

You can eat raw quince, but like all worthwhile things, the magic comes with a little heat. It has  been used in traditional medicine to treat sore throat, diarrhea, inflammation, ulcers and high blood pressure. 

in Portuguese quince says is marmelo – where marmalade came from. Originally marmalade was made just from quince.

Well, is quince good for weight loss too?

Low in calories, quince is a nutritious fruit packed with vitamins and antioxidants as well as a great source of fibre. It makes it a perfect addition to your diet to keep hunger away while maintaining a well balanced set of nutrients.

Sleep time tea – calming & relaxing with lavender, lemon & verbena

The aromatic smell of this tea has calming and relaxing effects on the whole body and soul. Lavender tea benefits are well known as it is very effective in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, depression, and restlessness.

Verbena is commonly used as a treatment of insomnia, anxiety and depression. This herb also has analgesic effects and helps with mild headaches and is considered a natural antispasmodic to help with abdominal pain associated with menstruation.

I use verbena a lot as it grows in my garden pot like crazy and its taste is delicious so I made this herbal lemonades and sorbets.

A hot cup of This herbal tea makes you calm and relaxed before going to sleep

Lavender is one of my favorite herbs that I love to use to make my homemade skincare such as this Scented lavender infused oil or salve

Roasted herbal teas make a beautiful gift

Considering their healthy benefits, nice packaging and availability, herbal fruit teas seem like ideal gifts for your loved ones. feel free to make various combinations to suit your needs:

Fruits to make a tasty roasted tea blends

cranberries, pears, cherries, gooseberries, cherries, oranges, blackberries, mandarins, blueberries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, apples, strawberries, berries, pears, rose hips, grapes or pineapple.

Herbs to chose for your herbal teas

Leaves

verbena, thyme, peppermint, lemon balm, spearmint, mugwort, catnip

Buds

Lavender, Chamomile, Linden, Passion flower, Basil, Calendula,

Roots

ginger, Angelica, Dandelion

HOW TO USE ROASTED HERBAL FRUIT TEAS?

• No matter what the season is, roasted herbal fruit tea can be served as a warm drink 
• At the same time as a  refreshing ice tea to quench your thirst. 
• Combine it with black tea to make new flavors 
• Oh, I almost forgot, you can also prepare pancakes or waffles 
• mix them with milk and make a delicious smoothie
• adding a tablespoon of rum or brandy into this herbal tea make it pleasingly sweet and aromatic drink

How to make baked herbal fruit teas

First step

Variation 1 – ROSE HIPS & APPLES & THYME

Cut rosehips into half and remove their seeds and cut apples into roughly same size cubes as the size of rosehips

Variation 2 – QUINCE & GINGER & CINNAMON & CLOVES

Clean the ginger and quince and cut into small pieces of same size 

Variation 3 – LAVENDER & LEMON & VERBENA

Wash the lemon and cut it into small pieces, you can keep the zest. Remove it if you don’t like its bitterness. Add lavender and verbena and mix it well.

Second step

Add all ingredients onto a baking tray and place it in the oven.

Third step

Roast it the oven for 30 minutes at 180 °C stirring occasionally until soft and juicy.

Fourth step

Fill the roasted herbal tea mixture into a sterilized glass jar and screw in the lids

Fifth step

Turn the glasses upside down to seal the lid

Sixth step

Once it cools, store it in a cold and dry place

When you are ready to have a cup of delicious tea just place two tablespoons of the mixture into a cup, pour over hot water and add a sweetener of your choice – honey or raw sugar. And enjoy