Pineapple Sweet Tea

I actually have quite a few healthy recipes I have been meaning to post, as I finally started meal planning and decided after 7 months I should probably lose the rest of this "baby weight".  Well, that can wait a bit because I wanted to share this simple recipe.  I love to watch Trisha Yearwood's cooking show on Saturday mornings and everything she makes look so good (it's all Southern and not healthy.. of course it looks good!)  She made a Pineapple Sweet Tea last week that I just had to try.  If you like Peach Tea and other flavored tea, you should love this!

((I didn't make the pineapple ice cubes like they suggest, but it sounds like a good idea!))


Ingredients:

• One 20-ounce can pineapple chunks
• 4 family-size tea bags
• 2 cups boiling water
• 1/2 cup sugar  (on the show she said 1 &1/2 cups so I'm not sure if this is a typo or not.. I started with a 1/2 cup, but it was too bitter for me, so I ended up using 1 cup total)

 

Directions:

Drain the pineapple chunks and reserve the juice. Place the pineapple chunks in 2 silicone ice cube trays and fill the trays with cold water (it's ok if the pineapple floats up). Freeze overnight.

Pour 2 cups boiling water over the tea bags in a heat-safe measuring cup and let the tea stand for 10 minutes. Into a large pitcher, add the reserved pineapple juice, sugar and 1 cup cold water. Stir to mix slightly. Remove the tea bags from the tea mixture. Pour the hot tea into the sugar mixture and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add 8 cups water to the pitcher and refrigerate until serving.
When ready to serve, drop the pineapple ice cubes into the tea

Recipe courtesy of Trisha Yearwood ~ source