 Hey everyone, today we're going to make an immune boosting tea made with fresh ginger, orange, lemon juice, and some fresh basil. This was requested by one of my viewers, and so if you have a question or a recipe request, I should say, let me know down in the comments of the video. So I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make this delicious tea to ward off those colds and flu right after this. Before I show you how to make the tea, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell and that way you'll be notified every week when my new videos come out and we're always cooking up something delicious and healthy. All right, so let me go over those ingredients. First up, we're going to have some water, right? We're going to have water for our tea and I'm just making one cup for me, all right? So I got one cup of water. Now next up we have our ginger. Now I'm just using fresh ginger here and by the way the best way to store it, at least what I do is I just take it and I place it into a Ziploc bag, take the air out of it and then keep it in the crisper drawer. It'll keep pretty well for about up to a month, so that's great. If you're going to use your ginger right away, you can leave it out on the counter for maybe up to a week and that's fine as well. Next up, we'll need some lemon juice. Well, a friend of mine gave me a bunch of lemons and they were going to go bad, so what I did was is I juiced all of them, poured them into an ice cube tray and put it in the freezer and then I popped all those cubes out into a Ziploc bag and I keep it in the freezer. So I have fresh lemon juice whenever I need it, so that's what I have here. I'm adding a little bit of fresh orange to this recipe. I like to use my, I have a couple of little oranges laying around, so I'm going to use those. This time of year, you know, we have the coronavirus pandemic and I'm trying not to go out to the store, so I'm using what I have and you should do the same. Once that's over and we can go back to shopping like normal, feel free to follow this recipe exactly and you'll love it. Next up is some fresh basil. Now we need a sweetener for our tea or not depending on your taste, but I like to sweet my tea just a bit and so I'm using date paste. I have a video for you on how to make it if you like to use that. It's a great sweetener because it has lots of vitamins and minerals and it has some fiber, so it's all good. Way better than regular sugar in my opinion, so if you want to know how to make that, it's really simple. Basically all you're doing is boiling some pitted dates in some water and you're blending it up in a blender and adding some of that liquid back in and you've got a beautiful paste that you can use for many, many recipes. If you don't want to use date paste, another good alternative is maple syrup. You can use that easily. It doesn't elevate your blood sugar either, so that's why I like it. All right, so I'm just going to pour my water into a saucepan and of course you can make as much of this as you want obviously. Now as a rule of thumb, you want to use about a tablespoon of fresh ginger per cup of tea, so that way you can make as much as you want, right? Just keep that in mind. That's just a nice amount that you get a nice flavor from. Now as far as I've rinsed this already and kind of rubbed it and cleaned it up a bit, you can either leave the skin on. Sometimes I'd leave it on because I'm going to use a strainer to strain my tea anyway, so the skin won't be in there. Some people like to peel it, so you can use a potato peeler like I'm doing here or you can use the back of a spoon. Then you want to slice your ginger as thinly as you can. That way you get more surface area into your tea and it just gets more of the nutrition out of it. And I just estimate how much a tablespoon is, so you don't have to be perfect about it. But usually it's around a one inch slice of fresh ginger, but again that depends on how thick that piece is, right? All right, so we'll place that right into our pan. Now I'll take my orange and I'm going to use my citrus press here and we're going to just press that juice right into there. You know, it's approximately maybe one to two tablespoons. Here's our lemon juice that is already melted. I'm going to toss in my basil leaves. I got a couple of them here. They're starting to turn a little bit, but that's okay. I have them and I love using them. And then the date paste or maple syrup. I'm going to place, you know, about a tablespoon. This depends on how sweet you like it. We're going to place this now on the stove and we'll bring this to a boil. So we want to bring this just to a boil like you see here and then we're going to lower the temperature down to low and we just want to simmer it for five to ten minutes. Usually I just go five. That seems to be enough for me. All right, now we're ready to just strain the tea. I'm just going to pour it into this dish here so that I can pour it into my serving dish easier. Now the tea looks a little bit cloudy only because of my using the date paste. If you were to use maple syrup, you wouldn't have that as much of a cloudy look to it. And here we go. I'll just pour it into the glass and take a taste. All right, let's give this a taste. I'm going to stir it up a little bit because it does separate, like I said, from the date paste, but that is delicious. I love the orange in there. It really gives it a nice little bright flavor. The basil comes through. I hope you guys will try this. It is delicious. Stay healthy. Cheers. Thanks for watching everybody. I hope you enjoyed the video. 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