I decided to try out a lemonade recipe since every day seems to be getting hotter and it’s harder for me to stand the heat for my outdoor tea sessions!

This recipe isn’t actually “tea” as it uses a lotus flower for the base. I chose this because I worked with The Qi during their launch and have fallen in love with their flowers ! I have been restocking my collection every time I run out because they are such a beautiful and easy brew.

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One of their flowers are the blue lotus and I thought this would provide a unique flavor for the lemonade!

I love tart things so I used quite a bit of lemon and I added some of my other favorite ingredients like seltzer and ginger!

I started with two lotus flowers and cold brewed them for about 12 hours but you could go longer if you wanted to! This is the base for the lemonade. I add the brewed lotus flowers last. In my big pitcher I added the juice of two fresh lemons and some ginger infused water.

For the ginger infused water, I cut up about 8-10 slices of ginger and boiled them in about 3 cups of water. I let it boil until the water was fragrant and boiled down a bit.

After adding the lemon and ginger to the pitcher, I added the lotus flower brew. Fill whatever space is left in the pitcher with water, mix them all together and voila!

If you want to add a little sweetener to your drink, you can definitely do that. I liked having the tang of the lemon and slight spice of the ginger.

The other note I have is that even after adding some water, this mixture if quite strong on it’s own. What I did was filled half of my cup with the mixture and then filled the rest with a seltzer water to give it a little bit of fizz!

I left the flowers in the pitcher so that I could garnish my drink with one of them but that is totally up to you!