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April 15, 2019 · 9 Comments

The Very Best Instant Pot Iced Tea

Drinks· Recipes· Recipes by Course· Recipes By Seasons· Spring· Summer

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There’s nothing better than a glass of iced tea when you’re thirsty. Don’t heat up your kitchen by boiling the water on your stove. Once you try my very best Instant Pot Iced Tea recipe you’ll never make it the old way again.

The Best Summer Instant Pot Iced Tea

One Way to Make Instant Pot Iced Tea

It’s true that you can add tea bags to your electric pressure cooker with the water to make your favorite summer drink. Use 1 family-sized tea bag per quart of water, 3 regular-sized tea bags, or 2 tablespoons of loose leaf tea.

How many cups are in a quart? 4 cups in case you forget like I always do.

Then brew it all together for 4 to 5 minutes on high pressure and carefully manually release the pressure. If you don’t mind your tea stronger, let the pressure release naturally. I like this method best for herbal teas.

Making Instant Pot Iced Tea For Picky Iced Tea People

In the south we are super picky about our iced tea and I’m even pickier than most! In fact about 50% of the iced tea I buy out I don’t like. To me tea needs to be clear, fragrant, and have a clean refreshing taste.

When I make chai teaI use the method I talked about above , but I find it doesn’t make the same fresh tasting iced tea that traditional brewing does.

The Best Summer Instant Pot Iced Tea

Save Room in Your Fridge by Making Instant Pot Iced Tea Concentrate

I don’t know about you, but my fridge is always full. I guess that’s just a hazard of being a recipe developer. Making tea concentrate means I can store it easier.

What is tea concentrate? It’s simply just double or triple strength brewed tea. Just add water to make it regular strength.

This is my favorite method during the summer when we’re drinking lots of tea.

How to Make Instant Pot Green Tea Vs. Black Tea

I would never make green tea with the throw the tea in and pressure cook method. You can get away with that using black or herbal tea, but green tea should only steep for 1 to 3 minutes or it becomes very bitter.

Make green tea with the heat the water in your Instant Pot method, just like the recipe below.

How Do I Make Southern Iced Tea?

If you aren’t familiar with southern tea it’s also known as sweet tea which gives you a hint. Traditional sweet tea is syrupy sweet and made with lots of white sugar. We’re talking one cup of sugar per 4 cups sweet!

You can use the sweetener of your choice if you’d like to sweeten yours. I’ve used maple syrup, agave nectar, and date syrup in mine.

I do find that fresh perfect tea doesn’t even need sweetener, so my ice tea method may be the one that gets you off the sugar in your tea!

The Best Summer Instant Pot Iced Tea

How to Dress Up Your Iced Tea

  • Muddle fresh mint or lemon balm in a glass, then fill with ice and tea. Stir well.
  • Muddle chopped berries in a glass, then fill with ice and tea. Stir well.
  • Add some rose water or orange flower water. Start with 1/4 teaspoon if you haven’t used them before and add more to suit your taste.

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The Best Instant Pot Iced Tea
The Best Summer Instant Pot Iced Tea

The Best Instant Pot Iced Tea

Kathy Hester
There’s nothing better than a cooling glass of iced tea when it’s hot outside. Don’t ruin it by heating up your kitchen by boiling the water on your stove. Once you try my summer Instant Pot Iced tea you’ll never make it the old way again.
4.70 from 10 votes
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Additional Time 15 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings

Equipment

  • Luzianne Specially Blended for Iced Tea, Decaffeinated Family Sized, 48-Count Tea Bags
  • Tazo Iced Passion Herbal Tea Filterbags, 6 count (pack of 4)
  • Newman’s Own Organics – Organic Black Tea Family Sized – 22 Tea Bags

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups water
  • 1 family size tea bag

Instructions
 

  • Add the water to your Instant Pot. Heat it up on high pressure for zero minutes. 
  • This brings the water up in temperature without boiling.
  • Release the pressure manually. Put in the teabag and let steep for 4 minutes.
  • (If you are using green tea only steep 1 to 3 minutes depending on how strong you like it.)
  • Remove teabag(s), let cool, and store in the fridge. 
  • Serve over lots of ice.

Video

Notes

You can always double or triple this recipe or just double the tea and make concentrate.
If you want to add sweetener, do it right after you remove the tea bags. The water will still be warm enough to dissolve it.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cupSodium: 9mg
Keyword ice tea for picky people, instant pot, instant pot iced tea, instant pot tea, summer tea
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Comments

  1. Kelly says

    July 4, 2018 at 8:17 pm

    How do you heat on high for 0 minutes?

    Reply
    • Kathy Hester says

      July 4, 2018 at 9:28 pm

      You click the pressure cook or manual button and set the time for zero minutes by using the buttons. The fact is that it is heating up right until the time that it comes up to pressure, then it starts counting down.

      Reply
  2. Herb says

    August 5, 2018 at 3:33 am

    What is a “family size tea bag”? Where can they be bought? What is the equivalent number of regular tea bags? Thank You

    Reply
    • Kathy Hester says

      August 14, 2018 at 10:16 pm

      I think it’s 3 regular tea bags and I get mine at any grocery store.

      Reply
  3. Charlie Wilson says

    September 18, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    5 stars
    I agree with you about finding well brewed tea at a restaurant. I have three restaurants where I eat that I think have good tea and I will always order tea from those places. If I order tea at any other place I know I am just taking a chance. My mother made sweetened tea when I was growing up, but it was way too sweet and to this day I will not order sweet tea anywhere. I buy unsweetened tea and then add my own sweeteners. So I do drink sweet tea, but I do my own sweetening. I am watching your IP tea video. Never even considered this.

    Reply
  4. Eve Nichols says

    May 2, 2019 at 5:36 pm

    Kathy, although I do not have an Instant Pot, I do have a pressure cooker that I dearly love, so I totally enjoyed this video. It put me in remembrance of an idea I had a long time ago. Like you, I too, love a good tea. My grandmother made the BEST lemon merang pie and years ago, I thought wouldn’t it be great if I could make a “tea” pie. So I’m sharing this idea with you, you recipe-creater, you. Should this idea pique your interest, I’ll look forward to what you create. Maybe even some kind of a lemony, creamy topping or bottom might be a nice touch…. but for those of us who just love the tea flavor, well, I’m listening. 😁
    P.S. I’m a plant-based eater and I Love your Easy Vegan ciikbook!

    Reply
    • Kathy Hester says

      May 6, 2019 at 6:40 pm

      I will see what I can do. Thank you so much for your support <3

      Reply
  5. Tammy says

    August 11, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    Katie, I am having trouble with my tea bags opening up in the pressure cooker.. Any hints or tips for this?

    Reply
    • Kathy Hester says

      September 21, 2019 at 10:24 pm

      I haven’t really had that happen, but I have made it with loose tea. Then I just pour through a fine mesh strainer.

      Reply

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