What is Rooibos Aloe and Honeydew tea?

Rooibos Aloe & Honeydew is a red rooibos blend with red rooibos as a base, liquorice root, pineapple cubes, melissa, candied aloe vera, honeydew melon cubes and some flavouring. It’s not so often you see aloe vera and melon in a tea blend, so we were really excited about this one.

This tea smells delicious. It’s exactly what you would expect from a honeydew tea (not that there are many out there), with a deeper red rooibos base note. It’s difficult to talk about aloe, as aloe is quite neutral.

Aloe is popular for its soothing properties, especially when applied topically on sunburnt skin and wounds (Source: Natural Medicine Journal), and it’s also available as a supplement (Source: NCBI).

This tea contains honeydew melon cubes too, which is also not a common ingredient in tea blends. Just looking at the ingredients, we expected a lot from this one – unique flavour, freshness, and enough natural sweetness because of the liquorice. Liquorice is a popular ingredient for sweetening tea without adding calories but does have some bad reputation. It’s not recommended for people with high blood pressure or heart and kidney problems, but likely only in high amounts (Source: NIH).

How to brew this blend

We brewed this tea using a teaspoon of leaves per cup of water (150 ml) at 100 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes. And tasty it was! This blend really is all about honeydew in every sense. It tastes like a real honeydew; it smells like a honeydew and it’s naturally sweet. You have to take a real deep sniff to feel the rooibos, even though it’s a main ingredient of this blend.

This tea tastes great hot, and cold, but we preferred it iced. Even though it’s light, you can use only one teaspoon of tea leaves for making an iced tea and it will still be strong enough, and sweet enough even without a sweetener. Honeydew really shines through, and when served cold, it has an incredible lightness and freshness too. If you are worried about all that extra sugar, don’t be. Nothing But Tea states the amount of sugar and calories per 100 ml, which is truly negligible – 0.3 grams of sugar per 100 ml and 4 kcal.

You can re-steep the same leaves one more time. Liquorice will be stronger in the second infusion, especially if you steep it longer.

This is a caffeine-free tea, so it’s great for any time of the day. Who might like this tea? Tea drinkers who usually drink fruity rooibos teas, tropical green tea and like honeydew melon flavour.

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How to make a Matcha Melon Slushie

Technically, a slushie or slushy is made with ice, powdered drink mix, sugar and carbonated water (soda or sparkling water). You can replace all ingredients except ice and carbonated water and still get a delicious slushie. Tea syrups, other sweeteners, real fruits, tea and even coffee are will all be great for making a homemade slushie. What’s great about making slushies at home is that you can choose your own ingredients and make it healthy and delicious at the same time.

For making a Matcha Melon Slushie you will need 6 simple ingredients – sweet melon with lighter yellow-green flesh, matcha powder, ice, sparkling water, honey and lime.   

Check out the almost instant Earl Grey Slushie recipe here.

Which melon is the best for making a melon slushie?

There are dozens of different melons you can buy. The most common ones are Cantaloupe melon with green and orange skin and orange flesh and honeydew melon with yellow skin and green-white flesh. The sweeter it is, the better it will be for making slushies. This slushie is made with sweet Canary melon. If you wish to replace it, choose honeydew or Galia melon rather than cantaloupe melon. Cantaloupe melon is a very common melon with orange flesh, but sometimes it may have a bland flavour. Besides, the orange coloured melon flesh blended with green matcha powder will not give a vibrantly green drink.

Which matcha is the best for making matcha slushie?

Any good quality, vibrant and fresh matcha will be good for making a slushie. Choose authentic matcha from Japan, either a regular ceremonial grade (but not the most expensive ones) or culinary grade. If your drink is not green enough and you already added 2 teaspoon of matcha powder, don’t add more. 1 teaspoon equals 2-3 grams and Matcha is usually high in caffeine. Some may contain over 40mg of caffeine per gram.

Do you need to use a sweetener?

You don’t need to use a sweetener for this slushie. However, this will ultimately depend on the type and ripeness of the melon, and how sweet you want your drink to be. 1-2 teaspoons of honey will be enough to make it just right. Alternatively, you can use other syrups or calorie-free liquid sweeteners.

More Matcha Recipes

Updated: 22nd June 2023

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Melon Matcha Slushie

Make the most of melon season with this simple, juicy andrefreshing Melon Matcha Slushie.  

Course Drinks

Keyword Matcha, Sluhie, Summer

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 3 150 ml glasses

Equipment

• Teaspoon
• Blender
• glasses for serving
• Kettle

Ingredients

• 150 grams of melon, peeled and cubed
• 100 ml of sparkling water
• 10 large ice cubes
• 2 teaspoons of honey
• freshly squeezed juice of 1/2 lime
• 2 teaspoons of freshly boiled water, cooled down to 80 degrees Celsius
• 1 1/2 teaspoon matcha powder

Instructions

• Bring fresh water to a boil and let it cool down to 80 degrees Celsius or 176 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Sift 1 teaspoon of matcha powder into a small cup.
• Add 2 teaspoons of water and mix well until there are no clumps.
• Add honeydew, ice cubes, honey, matcha, lime juice and sparkling water into a blender and blend for about 30 seconds.
• Pour into glasses and serve.

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